Pakistan holds KP chief minister and hundreds of PTI members after emergency takeover
ISLAMABAD: Police have detained 278 members of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since the federal government imposed emergency rule on Sunday, AFP reported on Monday.
Emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will last until security improves, minister says
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s opposition and its lawyers are taking the federal takeover of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the courts, challenging whether Islamabad had constitutional grounds to remove an elected provincial government and hold its chief minister in preventive custody.
Two Pakistan Army pilots killed in training plane crash near Quetta
ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistani army pilots have been killed after their training aircraft crashed near the southwestern city of Quetta, the military said.
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 lines up six privatisations to raise over $1 billion
KARACHI: Pakistan expects its economy to grow more than 4% this fiscal year and aims to privatise five or six state-run entities that could raise over $1 billion, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said.
Pakistan says 12 militants killed in attempted border infiltration in Kurram
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army said on Sunday that 12 militants and Afghan Taliban fighters had been killed and one of its own soldiers was martyred when troops repelled an attempt to cross the border from Afghanistan into Kurram district.