Vance hails “good foundation” as US-Iran talks survive Trump disruptions in Switzerland
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran agreed on Monday on a 60-day roadmap toward a permanent peace settlement after marathon overnight negotiations at a Swiss mountain resort, with Vice President JD Vance hailing a “good foundation” even as inflammatory statements from President Donald Trump thousands of miles away briefly caused Iran’s delegation to refuse to re-enter the negotiating room.
Pezeshkian heads to Islamabad on state visit as US-Iran peace roadmap takes shape
ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a state visit at the invitation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said, as Tehran and Washington began a 60-day push toward a final agreement to end months of conflict following the first formal round of US-Iran talks in Switzerland.
PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold
GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party and its ruling partner PML-N completed their takeover of Gilgit-Baltistan’s new assembly on Monday, sweeping the territory’s two top parliamentary offices without contest as a three-party power-sharing arrangement moved swiftly from deal to fact.
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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
Pakistan receives seventh LNG cargo since April as Hormuz flows resume
KARACHI: A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker docked at Pakistan’s Port Qasim on Monday, the country’s seventh LNG delivery since April, as Islamabad moves to rebuild energy reserves following the crisis triggered by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year.
Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sentenced prominent Baloch rights activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment after convicting her of inciting a mob that killed a paramilitary soldier during a protest in the southwestern port city of Gwadar nearly two years ago, in a case her lawyers condemned as a travesty of justice.