Suicide bombers and gunmen attack Kohat police compound, killing at least 21
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mosque inside a police compound in north-west Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 21 people, before gunmen tried to storm the complex and fought security forces for hours.
Pakistan’s tough talk for Saudi Arabia keeps hardening, testing an untested defence pact
KARACHI: Pakistan will defend Saudi Arabia “to any extent,” a senior military spokesman said on Thursday — the toughest yet in a run of statements from Islamabad that have hardened by the day as the kingdom faces its heaviest barrage of Houthi drone and missile strikes in the current hostilities.
Islamabad braces for showdown as minister Naqvi vows to stop Imran Khan’s supporters reaching capital “in every possible way”
ISLAMABAD: The government has vowed to stop supporters of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from marching on Islamabad “in every possible way”, warning that security forces have been given clear rules of engagement and will not stay silent if they come under fire.
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 trims fuel prices slightly after week of steep increases
ISLAMABAD: The government trimmed the price of petrol and diesel on Friday, a modest reversal after a week in which fuel costs climbed to their highest in months and pushed the government into a fresh round of austerity and subsidies.
Lambeth Palace rescinds interfaith honour to cleric Tahir Ashrafi who offered bin Laden the title “Sword of God”
ISLAMABAD: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s office on Thursday withdrew an interfaith award it had presented to a prominent Pakistani cleric six days earlier, after remarks he made about Osama bin Laden in 2007 resurfaced and drew condemnation on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.