Zardari meets Sharif in Lahore days after Naqvi’s referendum call on new provinces
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the premier’s home in Lahore on Saturday, two days after the interior minister’s call for a referendum on new provinces reopened a row that has divided their coalition since July.
Four soldiers, including a major, martyred; 24 militants killed in operations in Balochistan and North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: Four soldiers, including a major, were martyred and 24 militants were killed in a series of operations in Balochistan and North Waziristan, the military said on Saturday.
Pakistan and 16 Muslim countries condemn Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, urge US to enforce ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and 16 other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey, have condemned an Israeli airstrike on the surgical ward of a hospital in southern Gaza and urged Washington to press Israel to uphold the ceasefire.
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
IMF presses Pakistan to end fuel subsidy before December board vote
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund repeated its call for Pakistan to phase out a fuel subsidy program that has drawn more than 15 million registrants, saying any future support should oil prices rise again must be limited, timebound and accommodated within the current fiscal year’s budget.
India win Under-19 Asia Cup final off the last ball with one wicket in hand
LAHORE: Mohit Ulva struck a boundary off the last ball of the match to give India a one-wicket victory over Pakistan in the Under-19 Asia Cup final in Muscat on Saturday.