PM Sharif tells President Pezeshkian peace deal will ‘go a long way’ towards rebuilding Iran as Trump signs accord at Versailles
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday that the peace agreement brokered by Islamabad between Washington and Tehran would “go a long way” towards rebuilding Iran, as Donald Trump signed the deal at a candlelit dinner with Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles and critics on both sides of the Atlantic rounded on its terms.
Pakistan raises alarm over India’s 17 water projects designed to give it ‘hydro-hegemony’ over the Indus
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused India of actively pursuing at least 17 infrastructure projects on the Indus river system designed to give New Delhi “the tools for hydro-hegemony” — a striking charge that escalates a diplomatic confrontation over the two countries’ six-decade-old water-sharing agreement.
PPP chief backs defence budget deal but warns Pakistan’s federation is running on borrowed goodwill
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari stepped into the National Assembly on Thursday with the authority of a man who had extracted concessions from a government desperate for his presence — and used the occasion not merely to endorse a budget compromise, but to deliver a sweeping indictment of how Pakistan’s federation actually functions beneath its constitutional veneer.
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 gets $700 million ADB loan to fix one of Asia’s most underpenetrated insurance markets
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $700 million policy-based loan to restructure Pakistan’s chronically underdeveloped insurance sector, the Manila-based lender said, as Islamabad accelerates a push to modernise financial markets that remain almost entirely dominated by banks.
Supreme Court summons jail officials over Imran Khan’s blocked access to lawyers
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Pakistan moved on Thursday to reassert judicial authority over conditions inside Adiala jail, ordering the prison’s superintendent, Punjab’s home secretary and both the Islamabad and Punjab advocate generals to respond within three weeks to a petition challenging what lawyers describe as the systematic denial of Imran Khan’s right to meet with his legal team.