US and Iran trade fire across the Gulf, testing a ceasefire neither side has fully honored
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran exchanged military strikes early on Wednesday, drawing three American-allied Arab states into the crossfire and threatening to collapse the most significant diplomatic opening between Washington and Tehran in decades, as President Trump alternated between warning that Iran would “pay the price” and insisting that a comprehensive peace deal remained tantalizingly close.
Pakistan strikes militant hideouts along Afghan border, killing 26, as tensions spiral
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan carried out airstrikes on militant hideouts along its volatile northwestern border with Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 26 fighters, the government said, in retaliation for a string of deadly attacks that have claimed the lives of soldiers and police officers across the country’s restive frontier provinces in recent weeks.
No survivors after army helicopter Mi-17 crashes near Muzaffarabad; inquiry ordered
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Army Mi-17 helicopter crashed near Muzaffarabad on Wednesday, killing all personnel on board when the aircraft went down during takeoff due to what military officials described as a technical fault, marking the third deadly helicopter accident involving security or government in less than one year.
BITES
- 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 remittances hit record $4.3 billion in May, setting up historic annual total
KARACHI: Pakistan received a record $4.3 billion in workers’ remittances in May, the State Bank of Pakistan said Wednesday, driven by surging inflows from the Gulf states and the United Kingdom that have put the country on course for an unprecedented full-year total as it navigates a delicate IMF-backed stabilization program.
Pakistan braces for storms and flooding even as Karachi swelters under historic heat
KARACHI: The thermometer read 37 degrees Celsius when afternoon arrived Wednesday in this coastal megacity of some 20 million people, but for anyone stepping outside, that number told only part of the story.