CM Afridi completes contested run to Karachi, sharpens fight over jailed ex-premier
KARACHI — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi rolled into this port city in the early hours of Monday after a drive of more than six hours through detours, blocked highways, and what his party described as deliberately dug-up pavement, capping a five-day mobilisation tour that has hardened the standoff between his party and Pakistan’s provincial authorities ahead of a nationwide protest planned for September 27.
As province fight sharpens, President Zardari cuts short London visit
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan will cut short a visit to London and return home Sept. 8, according to people familiar with his travel plans, as a dispute over restructuring the country’s provinces threatens to strain the ruling coalition.
Kashmir dispute resurfaces in unlikely venue: a fight over world maps
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Monday that India’s assertions about the disputed Kashmir region carry no legal weight, the latest exchange in a decades-old standoff that found new life this week in an unlikely arena: a United Nations vote on how continents are drawn on a map.
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 taps international market to offload leftover sugar from last year’s costly import binge
KARACHI: The state trading company has put more than 107,000 tons of white refined sugar up for international sale, moving to clear the remnants of an emergency import that has become a case study in the country’s chronic mismanagement of its sugar supply.
EU warns Pakistan not to take GSP+ trade perks for granted- report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cannot assume its preferential access to European Union markets will continue, the bloc’s ambassador to Islamabad said, as the two sides engage in high-stakes talks over a trading arrangement worth billions of euros to the South Asian nation’s export economy.