Pakistan reopens Gabd-Rimdan border crossing with Iran, freeing stranded LPG trucks – report
QUETTA: Pakistan reopened its Gabd-Rimdan crossing with Iran to commercial traffic on Saturday, freeing liquefied petroleum gas tankers and food trucks that had been stranded for a week, Dawn newspaper reported.
Two soldiers martyred, six militants killed in Dera Ismail Khan gunfight, army says
PESHAWAR: Two Pakistani soldiers were martyred and six militants killed in a gunfight in the north-western district of Dera Ismail Khan, the military said on Sunday.
Pakistan arrests father accused of selling sexual abuse videos of his own young children
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s cybercrime agency says it has broken up an international network that sold child abuse videos for cryptocurrency, and that the trail began with a father who allegedly filmed his own children, aged four and five, and sold the footage.
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 rate decision pits inflation fight against growth push
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate on Monday for the second time this year, with most analysts forecasting a half-point increase to 12% and some bankers arguing for a full point to contain inflation that has run above 10% on costlier oil imports tied to the Middle East war.
Shadab Khan pulls off miracle escape to sink England in one-wicket thriller
LAHORE: Pakistan beat England by one wicket on Sunday after Shadab Khan and Haris Rauf added an unbeaten 89 for the last wicket, the highest 10th-wicket partnership in a successful one-day international chase.