PM Sharif lands in Jeddah for talks with Saudi crown prince as Gulf tensions mount
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif touched down in Jeddah on Thursday evening at the start of a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, arriving alongside Chief of Defence Forces and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for talks expected to centre on the kingdom’s deepening security partnership with Islamabad.
Security forces kill 12 militants in twin Balochistan raids
RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 12 militants in two intelligence-led raids in Balochistan on Wednesday and Thursday, the military said, the latest strikes in a province where attacks have surged for much of this year.
Pakistan says India has ‘no standing’ to question Kashmir elections
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed India’s criticism of ongoing elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir as “baseless and politically motivated,” with a Foreign
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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
Petrol down Rs3.19, diesel Rs1.50 for Friday
ISLAMABAD: The government cut petrol and diesel prices on Thursday, trimming petrol by Rs3.19 a litre and high-speed diesel by Rs1.50, under a daily pricing mechanism adopted last month to keep pump prices in step with volatile international oil markets.
Court orders exhumation of Mir Raza’s body for second autopsy
KARACHI: At 9am on Friday, workers will open the grave of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old business graduate whose death has split Karachi’s police force against itself.