Trump says Iran talks ‘going well’ but warns bridges and power plants remain targets
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that talks between Washington and Tehran were “going well”, even as he repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power stations and bridges within hours if the two sides fail to reach a lasting agreement, hours before sitting down with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House for the first time since the war between Israel, the US and Iran began.
Pakistan’s ruling coalition turns on itself as deadly clashes overshadow Kashmir vote
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fragile coalition government was plunged into open conflict on Tuesday, as the first phase of elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir left a trail of disputed casualties and a bitter public feud between the two parties that are supposed to be governing the country together.
Fresh flooding fears grip Pakistan as forecasters warn of week of heavy rain
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is bracing for another bout of heavy monsoon rain from Wednesday, weather officials have warned, as communities across the country continue to reel from flooding that has already killed at least 110 people and displaced thousands of families.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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 approves $6 billion refinery overhaul after six-year delay
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan approved a long-delayed overhaul of its oil refining industry, clearing the way for roughly $6 billion in investment to modernize aging plants and reduce the South Asian nation’s dependence on imported fuel.
Blood money value nearly doubles to Rs19.35mln as silver prices surge
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has fixed the value of diyat, or blood money, at Rs19,352,390 for the financial year 2026-27, a rise of nearly 97 per cent driven by a sharp climb in silver prices.