US and Iran broaden war as infrastructure becomes the new battlefield
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran dramatically widened the scope of their conflict on Friday, striking bridges, a port facility, and energy infrastructure in a sixth consecutive night of American attacks, while Tehran answered with a barrage of missiles and drones that reached as far as Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and, for the first time, Syria.
China, Pakistan press US, Iran to halt fighting, return to table as Hormuz truce unravels
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: China and Pakistan pressed the United States and Iran on Friday to halt their renewed fighting and resume negotiations, warning that
Bhutto-Zardari presses Islamabad to reopen Kashmir, warns election is test for Pakistan
MIRPUR: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari opened his party’s campaign for this month’s Kashmir elections with a direct challenge to the federal government on Friday, telling a rally here that if Pakistan could broker peace between the United States and Iran, it could just as easily end the monthlong standoff that has cut off food, fuel and medicine to the region.
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- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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
Govt hands fuel pricing to Ogra for daily revisions
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will begin adjusting petrol and diesel prices every day instead of on its traditional fortnightly schedule, as the government moves to pass through international market swings tied to the widening conflict between Iran and the United States, Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik said on Friday.
Security forces kill 24 militants in intelligence-led raids near Afghan border
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 24 militants in a wave of gun battles in the northwestern district of Bannu over the past 24 hours, the military said on Friday, as authorities pressed a widening offensive against a resurgent insurgency near the Afghan border.