Iran halts retaliatory strikes as pause in US bombing for the second night raises hopes of de-escalation
ISLAMABAD: The United States held off from further strikes on Iran for a second consecutive night on Sunday, as President Donald Trump weighed diplomatic and military options in a conflict now closing in on its fifth month.
Pakistan accuses Kashmir protest group of India links after arrest of alleged ‘digital marketing’ suspect
ISLAAMABAD: Pakistan’s information minister has accused a protest movement in Azad Kashmir of receiving funding and direction from India, unveiling what he described as “irrefutable evidence” linking the banned group to a cross-border disinformation network days before elections are due to be held in the territory.
Pakistan monsoon death toll passes 100 as fresh flood alerts issued for major rivers
ISLAMABAD: The death toll from Pakistan’s monsoon rains has climbed past 100, with the country’s disaster management authority confirming ten further fatalities in the 24 hours to Sunday afternoon, as officials warned that another spell of heavy rain is expected to sweep the north of the country within days.
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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
Pakistan rate hold near-certain as war-driven oil surge derails easing bets
KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank is all but certain to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged next week, as a resurgence in global oil prices tied to the widening conflict between the United States and Iran forces policymakers to shelve any near-term plans for further easing.
Pakistan issues fresh glacial flood warning as Gilgit-Baltistan remains cut off for fifth day
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s meteorological authorities have issued a fresh warning over the threat of glacial lake outburst floods in the country’s mountainous north, as thousands of residents in Gilgit-Baltistan remain cut off from the outside world for a fifth consecutive day.