US and Iran trade strikes far beyond Hormuz as Tehran declares ‘full-scale war’
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s president declared on Monday that his country is now locked in “a full-scale war” with the United States, a stark public acknowledgment that came as American warplanes struck deeper into Iranian territory than at any point in months and Tehran’s own missiles reached as far as Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait.
Iran’s interior minister arrives in Islamabad amid mediation push
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, arrived in Islamabad on Monday for two days of official talks, the latest step in Pakistan’s monthslong effort to keep alive a peace process between Iran and the United States.
Canada, Pakistan sign trade deal as Ottawa looks to rebuild ties
ISLAMABAD: Canada’s top diplomat pledged more than $47 million in new aid to Pakistan on Monday and pressed for expanded trade in agriculture, mining and energy, becoming the first Canadian foreign minister to visit the country in nearly 20 years.
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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
Petroleum dealers back daily fuel pricing, seek bigger margin
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s petroleum retailers have thrown their support behind a government plan to shift fuel-price adjustments from a weekly to a daily schedule, backing an overhaul designed to tighten transparency in a market officials say has become vulnerable to manipulation and hoarding.
Six more die in Pakistan floods as toll reaches 47; north braces for glacial threat
PESHAWAR: The death toll from Pakistan’s monsoon season rose to 47 on Monday after six more people were killed in a single 24-hour span in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where flash floods and collapsing homes have claimed dozens of lives since the rains began in late June.