Pakistan strikes militant camps in Afghanistan, killing 28, officials say
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out air strikes on suspected militant camps along the Afghan border, killing 28 terrorists, days after a suicide bombing and gun assault on a police compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa left more than 20 people dead.
Punjab police detain two more sisters of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan ahead of protest march on capital
LAHORE: Two more sisters of Imran Khan were detained for 30 days on Monday, a day after a third was taken into custody, as authorities moved against the jailed former prime minister’s family in the run-up to a mass protest planned for 27 September.
Naqvi returns to Tehran in new push to revive peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Iran has thanked Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership for its efforts to secure regional peace, as Islamabad’s interior minister arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks at one of the most precarious moments in the seven-month war between Iran and the United States.
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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
Three Turkish, seven local firms vie to buy Islamabad power utility
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan drew 10 expressions of interest for Islamabad Electric Supply Co., the third of three state-owned power distributors to complete a first bidding round in a privatisation program the government is pursuing under International Monetary Fund oversight.
FM Dar goes to New York with a fading peace deal in hand
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has arrived in New York to press for an end to the US-Iran war at the United Nations, as world leaders gather for a General Assembly overshadowed by a conflict now in its eighth month.