Uneasy calm along Afghan border after Pakistan says 13 Taliban fighters killed in overnight clash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said its forces had killed at least 13 Afghan Taliban fighters after repelling an attempted incursion in the Gulistan sector of Balochistan in an overnight border clash, while Afghanistan insisted its troops had suffered no casualties and had instead destroyed a Pakistani military post near the town of Spin Boldak, on the Kandahar side of the frontier, in the latest flashpoint between the two neighbours that has already claimed dozens of lives this week.
PTI blinks first: Imran Khan’s party retreats from Islamabad showdown, delays long march to October 4
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s party called off its long-threatened march on Islamabad on Friday, postponing by more than a week a protest that had triggered one of the most extensive security lockdowns the Pakistani capital has seen in years.
Dar meets Saudi, Turkish counterparts in New York; military chiefs set to convene over Houthi threat
ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, met his Saudi Arabian and Turkish counterparts in New York on Friday to take stock of progress on turning their three-way defence pact into a working institution, as Saudi Arabia contends with an intensifying wave of missile and drone attacks from Yemen’s Houthi movement.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Govt raises petrol price for weekend, cuts diesel for fifth straight day
The government raised the retail price of petrol on Friday while cutting diesel for a fifth consecutive pricing period, a split move that will cost motorcycle riders and small-car owners more at the pump even as truckers and bus operators catch a break.
Pakistan says 33 India-linked militants killed in latest Balochistan offensive amid rising unrest
QUETTA: Pakistan’s military said on Friday that security forces had killed 33 militants in a series of counter-terrorism operations across Balochistan since 21 September, as the south-western province continues to experience a marked rise in terror violence.