Pakistan sees Israel working against a lasting US-Iran peace deal
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused Israel of working against a lasting peace between the United States and Iran, saying its “unwarranted expansionist attempts” have pushed the Middle East into crisis.
Bhutto-Zardari tells government to stop “fighting everyone” and fix the economy
LARKANA: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has urged the government to stop “fighting everyone” and concentrate on the economic hardship facing ordinary people, warning that the fallout from the war on Iran will outlast the fighting.
Rights lawyers couple challenge 10-year terror convictions over removal of roadside barrier
ISLAMABAD: Two prominent Pakistani human rights lawyers sentenced to 10 years in prison under anti-terrorism legislation for the alleged removal of a security barrier have appealed against their convictions, arguing that their trial in a jail was neither fair nor lawful.
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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
Nepra raises factory power rate on chairman’s casting vote
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s power regulator raised a special electricity rate meant to revive industrial demand to 25.30 rupees per unit from 22.98 on the chairman’s casting vote, after a 2-2 split in which the members in charge of tariffs and development called for the scheme to be suspended instead.
Pakistan’s cyber agency warns banks and utilities of AI-driven attacks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national cyber emergency agency has warned banks and the operators of power, water and oil and gas facilities that hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence and automated bots to launch coordinated attacks.