Pakistan destroys Afghan border posts after mortar round kills civilian in South Waziristan
ISLAMABAD: A mortar shell fired from Afghanistan landed on a family home in South Waziristan district on Tuesday night, killing one civilian and injuring five other members of the household, officials said.
Pakistan warns Security Council that only diplomacy can halt slide towards wider Gulf war
Pakistan has told the UN Security Council that the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme has “sharply deteriorated”, urging every party to step back from a conflict that has spread from the Strait of Hormuz to the Saudi border.
PTI lawmakers split on talks with the establishment in seven-hour meeting of walkouts and recriminations
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers from Imran Khan party shouted at their own leaders and walked out of a seven-hour parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, leaving rival accounts of whether they had agreed to back a constitutional amendment in return for the release of the jailed former prime minister.
BITES
- 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
Pakistan moves to bring crypto regulator under anti-money laundering law
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top anti-money laundering committee approved a revision to the cash-transaction reporting thresholds that feed the country’s financial intelligence unit and cleared the new virtual-assets regulator for inclusion under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, a push to keep the framework in step with emerging financial risks and technologies.
Pakistan plans poverty-based electricity relief, eyes 250-unit threshold
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working on a system that would direct electricity relief to poor households rather than to everyone consuming up to 200 units a month, after wealthier consumers installed solar panels to push their grid usage under the cutoff, Energy Minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari told the Senate on Tuesday.