Four killed and 10 injured, including Pakistani national, in attacks on Saudi airport and oil field
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Four people have been killed and 10 injured, including a Pakistani national, in two attacks on an airport and an oil
PM Sharif vows to “bring back” progress to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on first visit since federal takeover
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has promised to “bring back” progress to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and defended the federal takeover of the province on his first visit since governor’s rule was imposed.
Jamaat-e-Islami to protest and negotiate on Friday over fuel levy
ISLAMABAD: The government will sit down with the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami on Friday in an attempt to end a two-month campaign against fuel taxes, even though the party says its nationwide protests will go ahead the same day.
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 weathers Mideast war better than most neighbours, IMF says
KARACHI: Pakistan has so far absorbed the shock from the war in the Middle East with growth intact and central bank reserves above $21 billion, but the International Monetary Fund said inflation running above 10% requires the State Bank to keep policy tight.
PIA picks designer HSY for new cabin crew uniform
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines has chosen the fashion designer Hassan Sheheryar Yasin, known as HSY, to dress its cabin crew in a new uniform that is due to make its first appearance on a London-to-Islamabad flight on 31 October.