Pakistan condemns Houthi tanker attacks and pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Red Sea crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, pledging his country’s full solidarity with Riyadh in a telephone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as fears grow that the widening Middle East conflict is drawing in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
Houthis strike Saudi oil tankers as US pounds Iran for 12th straight night
ISLAMABAD: Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with a barrage of missiles and drones on Wednesday evening, the group claimed, in an attack that threatens to open a second maritime front in the Middle East war even as the United States pressed on with its bombing campaign against Iran, now in its twelfth consecutive night.
Pakistan rejects Amnesty’s Kabul strike findings and hits out at EU over trade compliance report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued a double rebuke to international scrutiny of its conduct, rejecting outright an Amnesty International report into deadly air strikes in Kabul while separately voicing “disappointment” at a European Union assessment that found the country had regressed on several of its human rights and governance commitments.
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- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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 tells IMF reforms are working as it presses Washington for $10 billion cash backstop
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s finance minister told the International Monetary Fund that the government’s austerity-driven overhaul is delivering results, capping a Washington visit in which he also pressed US officials for a $10 billion currency backstop that Treasury has yet to publicly address.
Curfew imposed in Balochistan district after gunmen kill three in ambush on Karachi-bound bus
QUETTA: Pakistani authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew across a sub-district of Balochistan province after gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus travelling to Karachi, killing three people and wounding five, in the latest bloodshed to hit the restive southwestern region.