Pakistan brokered US-Iran peace deal ‘without a shot being fired’, security officials say
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership played a decisive role in brokering the memorandum of understanding signed between Washington and Tehran this week, senior security officials have said, insisting the country acted not out of narrow self-interest but from a genuine commitment to regional stability — and doing so, they stressed, entirely out of the spotlight.
Six militants killed in twin counter-terrorism raids across Pakistan’s restive northwest
PESHAWAR: The security forces have killed six suspected militants in two separate intelligence-led operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday night, as authorities pressed ahead with a campaign against the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan network.
Two Pakistani rights lawyers serving 17-year sentences awarded world’s most prestigious Trarieux prize
ISLAMABAD: Two of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights lawyers, currently languishing in prison after being sentenced to a combined 17 years under the country’s sweeping cybercrime laws, have been awarded the world’s oldest and most prestigious legal human rights honour — the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize.
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
Pakistan posts $459 million current-account surplus in May as remittances hit record
KARACHI: Pakistan’s current account swung to a surplus of $459 million in May, driven by a record surge in remittances from overseas workers that more than compensated for a persistent goods trade deficit, the State Bank of Pakistan said on Wednesday.
Four independent winners’ move to IPP disrupts Bhutto’s arithmetic in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit: Four independent candidates who won seats in Gilgit-Baltistan’s general elections have joined the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, handing the fledgling political outfit its first-ever foothold in the regional assembly and potentially complicating what had appeared to be a straightforward path to government for the Pakistan Peoples Party.