Pakistan’s top general returns to Tehran to keep US-Iran diplomacy alive
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Tehran on Tuesday on his fifth visit since April’s ceasefire, with Iran warning that a return to fighting with the United States is a real possibility.
Govt seeks counterterrorism pact with opposition after KP takeover
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The government has offered to bring all political parties together to agree a counterterrorism strategy, nine days after it removed the
Mir Raza Ali was murdered and police botched the investigation, judicial commission finds
KARACHI: A judicial commission has found that the Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali was murdered and that the police investigation into his death was an “epic failure”, in a report the Sindh government made public on Tuesday.
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- 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
IMF urges Pakistan to trim tax breaks, widen net to lock in recovery
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund urged Pakistan to trim tax concessions and bring under-taxed sectors into the net, saying a fairer system is needed to turn stabilisation into durable growth.
Teenager deliberately run over and killed by employer in Multan, police say
MULTAN: A 15-year-old boy who ran from the contractor teaching him to be an electrician was chased down and killed by a car in Multan, police said, in an incident captured on CCTV.