Makkah defence pact ‘open to any country’ willing to honour its principles, says Dar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has said the newly signed defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara is open to any country in the region prepared to uphold its founding principles, as he moved to clarify the scope of an agreement struck at a moment of acute regional tension.
Sitting and former AJK premiers face off in fiercely contested election phase under heavy security
BAGH: Voters in two districts of Azad Kashmir went to the polls today in a fiercely contested election phase that pits a sitting prime minister against two of his predecessors, amid a heavy security deployment and mounting questions over the vote’s integrity.
Militant commander among five killed in Balochistan security raid
QUETTA: Security forces killed five militants, including a commander of a group links to India, during an intelligence-led raid in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on Monday, as the province continues to bear the brunt of a sustained militant campaign that has claimed hundreds of lives this year.
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- 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 scales back flood-housing pledge for 65,000 families after fraud probe – report
ISLAMABAD: The government has scaled back a World Bank-backed program to rebuild homes for families displaced by the 2022 floods, leaving more than 65,000 verified households in Balochistan province without the housing they were promised, after investigations into record tampering and duplicate payment claims stalled the project.
Judicial commission to probe Mir Raza Ali’s murder after second postmortem rules out suicide
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has decided to seek a judicial commission to investigate the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali, the province’s home minister said on Sunday, as authorities moved to overhaul the inquiry into a death that has gripped Karachi for more than a week.