Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle
QUETTA: Security forces killed ten suspected militants and wounded several more during a gun battle in the mountains of Balochistan on Saturday, in the latest of a string of operations against a group the state accuses India of sponsoring.
Nawaz Sharif warns against political ‘animosity’ as PML-N edges towards Kashmir election victory
MURREE: Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister and president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has called for political rivals to set aside “animosity” as his party moves towards a majority in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s fraught legislative assembly elections, a contest marked by weeks of unrest, an internet blackout and mounting allegations of rigging.
Business partner ordered to join Mir Raza Ali’s murder probe as court extends his bail
KARACHI: A Karachi court on Saturday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of the business partner of murdered entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali, ordering him to join the ongoing investigation and restraining him from leaving the city while police continue their inquiry into one of the most closely watched cases the city has seen in years.
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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
Riyadh Air launches Pakistan service, adding capacity to Islamabad route
ISLAMABAD: Riyadh Air, the Saudi Arabian national carrier launched under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 economic program, began commercial service to Pakistan on Friday, landing its inaugural flight in Islamabad as the airline works toward a goal of serving more than 100 destinations by 2030.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects federal bid to withhold Rs6.4 billion from transfers
Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has refused to accept a federal government plan to deduct 6.4 billion rupees from its share of monthly revenue transfers, deepening a fiscal standoff between Islamabad and one of its four provinces over control of constitutionally mandated funds.