US and Saudi Arabia strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq as Tehran fires on American bases
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Saudi Arabia carried out joint air strikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq on Wednesday, hours after Iran fired missiles at American forces in the region, shattering a fragile lull in a conflict that has unsettled the Middle East and rattled global oil markets for months.
Security forces kill 32 suspected militants in 24-hour operations across KP and Balochistan
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 32 suspected militants in coordinated operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan over the past 24 hours, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday, as a separate operation against militants in Swat claimed the life of a police constable.
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
Senate committee orders Islamic banks to end abaya rule for female staff
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue has ordered the country’s central bank to stop commercial banks forcing female employees to wear abayas and headscarves, demanding immediate enforcement of a dress code policy the committee first laid down more than a year ago.
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.