US and Iran ‘close to deal’ on Hormuz — but strait still burns
ISLAMABAD: Oil prices tumbled on hopes of a breakthrough in the stand-off over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, even as the vital waterway remained shut to shipping and a Greek-operated bulk carrier was hit by an unidentified projectile, forcing its crew to abandon ship with one seafarer missing.
FM Dar heads to Jordan for talks on Jerusalem crisis
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar left for Amman on Tuesday for a one-day visit, where he is due to join foreign ministers from across the Arab and Islamic world for urgent talks on the deteriorating situation in occupied Jerusalem.
Pakistan tightens grip on foreign press with new travel permit rules
ISLAMABAD: Foreign journalists working in Pakistan will be required to obtain official permission before travelling outside the country’s three largest cities to carry out reporting work, under sweeping new regulations issued by the government.
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 says power glut replaces electricity shortages, but IMF blocks time-of-use pricing reform
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has moved past its electricity shortage era and now confronts a different challenge: what to do with too much power in the middle of the day and not enough after dark, according to the country’s power minister, who also said International Monetary Fund program restrictions are blocking a pricing overhaul that could ease the problem.
Pakistan turn to little-known South African to rescue struggling batting line-up
LAHORE: Pakistan have appointed Michael Smith, a former South African domestic batter with no international playing career, as the head coach in charge of resurrecting the national side’s ailing batting line-up, the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed on Tuesday.