PM Sharif meets Iranian Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan as Tehran-Washington conflict reignites
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met on Monday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bishkek, pressing the case for diplomatic restraint just hours after the United States and Iran exchanged their first direct strikes in more than a month, reigniting a war that has simmered since February.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey formalise defence pact as ‘Makkah Defence Alliance’
ISLAMABAD: Three nations bound by a first-of-its-kind mutual defense pledge took their first concrete steps on Monday toward building the institutions of what officials are now calling the “Makkah Defence Alliance,” with Pakistan set to supply the bloc’s inaugural secretary general and Saudi Arabia hosting its headquarters.
Second autopsy contradicts suicide finding in Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: A second post-mortem examination has found that the gunshot wound that killed a 25-year-old businessman in Karachi last month is inconsistent with suicide, contradicting the theory police pursued for weeks after his body was discovered — and reigniting a legal battle over who should investigate his death.
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
Inflation seen near 11 percent in August as floods, credit slump threaten growth
ISLAMABAD: Inflation is projected to hold in a range of 10% to 11% in August, as global commodity and energy costs continue to pressure consumer prices even as the country contends with a slump in foreign investment and a deepening contraction in private-sector lending, the Finance Division said.
The internet married Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. He would like a divorce
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spent the weekend watching the internet marry him off. By Monday, the chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party had heard enough. In a video statement posted to social media, he said that he is not engaged, is not getting married, and has never met the Austrian noblewoman the rumors had already fitted him for a wedding suit alongside.