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.
Pakistan rejects Taliban’s weapons smuggling claims as ‘baseless’, demands action against militant sanctuaries
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed as “frivolous” and “baseless” claims from the Afghan Taliban that weapons are being smuggled across the border for use in subversive activities, instead calling on Kabul to confront militant networks operating from its territory.
Security forces kill 15 in Balochistan operations amid record surge in violence
ISLAMABAD: Security forces in Balochistan province killed 15 militants over the weekend in a series of raids across eight districts, the interior ministry and state media said, as the country’s largest province by area continues to record its bloodiest period of violence in more than a decade.
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 sees $5 billion refinery deals as Türkiye revives offshore drilling
ISLAMABAD Pakistan expects to begin signing $5 billion worth of binding investment agreements to modernize its aging oil refineries starting next month, as the South Asian nation moves to shore up energy security following months of supply disruptions tied to the war between the US and Iran.
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.