QUETTA: Pakistan’s top military officer travelled on Saturday to Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, delivering a message of solidarity to a region convulsed by one of the most violent stretches of insurgent activity it has seen in years — even as questions persisted about how many people have actually died in the government’s response.

ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday abruptly moved one of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency’s most senior officers, Major General Faisal Naseer, out of his post overseeing the spy service’s internal wing and into the top civilian job at the National Counter-Terrorism Authority, a body that has spent more than a decade struggling to fulfill the mandate lawmakers gave it after some of the country’s darkest days of militant violence.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s power regulator signed off on two separate increases to electricity charges that will show up in consumers’ bills over the coming months, adding fresh strain to household budgets already stretched by elevated energy costs.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank disputed reports circulating on social media on Friday that a global financial-crimes watchdog had identified the country’s instant payment system as a conduit for money laundering, saying the claims distorted the findings of a report examining underground banking networks worldwide.