Pakistan vows to keep pushing US and Iran back to negotiating table
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will keep working to bring the United States and Iran back to the negotiating table, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, warning that sharper great-power rivalry and the erosion of international rules were leaving every country less secure.
IHC orders prison to let Imran Khan see his lead counsel, delays £190m appeals
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has ordered jail authorities to let Imran Khan’s lawyers see him before the next hearing, putting off for 10 days the appeals that he and his wife, Bushra Bibi, have brought against their convictions in the £190m corruption case.
Bhutto-Zardari tells PM Sharif to rebuild trust with allies in call for “political reset”
KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, whose Pakistan Peoples Party is an ally of the federal government, urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday to rebuild trust with his coalition partners and then the opposition, warning that the country cannot survive an oil-driven “economic catastrophe” without a “political reset”.
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
Remittances jump 14 percent to $3.89 billion in October
KARACHI: Pakistan’s overseas workers sent home $3.89 billion in October, up 13.8% from a year earlier, giving the central bank a larger foreign-currency cushion just as it fights an inflation upswing tied to the Middle East conflict.
Evidence does not support cross-border Diwali blame for Lahore smog, air monitor says
LAHORE: A Pakistani air-quality monitoring group has said the evidence does not support blaming Indian Diwali fireworks for the smog that smothered Lahore this week, a conclusion that complicates the explanation offered by Punjab’s government.