US, Iran trade fire for second day as Hormuz truce teeters
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran pounded each other’s forces for a second consecutive day on Monday, with American warplanes and drones striking dozens of targets across Iran and Tehran answering with missile and drone attacks on US military installations spread across five Gulf countries, plunging a monthlong ceasefire deeper into crisis and sending oil prices sharply higher.
Pakistani forces kill 114 in widening Balochistan offensive
QUETTA: Pakistani security forces have killed 114 militants in Balochistan province since July 5, according to state media reports on Monday, as a sprawling counterterrorism campaign launched after a deadly ambush on a police post entered its second week with no clear end in sight.
Two policemen killed in roadside bomb attack in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb tore through an armored police vehicle on patrol in Tank district on Monday, killing two officers and wounding two others in the latest attack targeting law enforcement in a district that has become one of the deadliest fronts in Pakistan’s fight against militancy.
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
LPG industry warns of shortage, threatens strike over pricing dispute
LAHORE: Pakistan’s liquefied petroleum gas industry escalated a monthslong dispute with federal regulators this weekend, with importers warning of an imminent nationwide shortage and more than 1,000 industry representatives threatening to shut down operations entirely if their demands are not met within three days.
Pakistan in talks with Netflix, weighing its own streaming platform, minister says
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government is negotiating with Netflix and other global streaming services to secure greater visibility for the country’s films and television dramas, while separately developing a state-backed digital platform to carry Pakistani content abroad, a senior minister said, reviving a long-running debate over why a domestic entertainment industry with a vast international following has landed so few original commissions from the world’s dominant streaming companies.