Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.
Pakistan sends interior minister to Tehran as Houthi strikes on Riyadh threaten to widen Gulf war
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister was due in Tehran on Sunday for what Iran called a purely bilateral visit, as Islamabad struggled to keep its role as go-between in the Iran-US war while being pulled ever closer to a new front in Yemen.
Only jailed Imran Khan can call off march on Islamabad, opposition says
ISLAMABAD: The opposition has said that nobody but the jailed Imran Khan can call off a planned march on the capital, confirming that the interior minister met opposition leaders in private just days before publicly promising to stop the protest by force of law.
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 moves to fix gaps in PM Sharif’s fuel relief scheme as uptake tops 1.7 million
ISLAMABAD: The government moved to broaden and tidy up Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s fuel relief program on Saturday, ordering that every operating fuel station be brought onto the system, allowing token redemption by text message where there is no internet, and loosening the rules for motorcycle, rickshaw and Qingqi riders who make up the bulk of enrollees.
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.