PM Sharif to visit Iran, Turkey in fresh push to save Gulf truce
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Iran and Turkey from July 3 to 6 in a renewed push to shore up a fragile truce between Washington and Tehran, officials said on Tuesday.
Behind a frozen Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan warns the world of what comes next
ISLAMABAD: The Indus Waters Treaty has long stood as proof that two nuclear-armed rivals, locked for generations in dispute over Kashmir, could still manage to share a river. On Tuesday, in a packed hall at the Jinnah Convention Centre, a parade of Pakistan’s most senior officials argued that the 1960 agreement is now in genuine jeopardy, and asked the world to take notice before the damage spreads beyond South Asia.
Roof collapse kills 14 children at Lahore tuition centre
LAHORE: At least 14 children were killed and several more injured on Tuesday when the roof of a private tuition centre collapsed in the Kahna area of Lahore, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents to strike Pakistan’s second-largest city in recent years.
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- 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
Inflation seen easing in June as oil prices retreat, core pressures persist
KARACHI: Pakistan’s annual inflation rate is expected to moderate slightly in June, as falling global oil prices following a partial reopening of the Strait of Hormuz offset persistent increases in food costs, according to forecasts from two of the country’s leading brokerages released this week.
Pakistan’s Arslan Ash wins record eighth Evo title in Las Vegas
LAHORE:Â Pakistani esports star Arslan Siddique, known to fans worldwide as “Arslan Ash,” claimed his eighth Evolution Championship Series title on Monday, defeating South Korean rival Rangchu in the Tekken 8 final to extend his command of the world’s most prestigious fighting game tournament.
