Imran Khan’s party marches into Peshawar with destination still unclear
PESHAWAR: Supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan marched into the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, the fifth day of a protest convoy whose final destination has still not been announced.
“Fake and fabricated”: Islamabad rejects claim of Pakistani air power in Yemen war
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday denounced as “fake and fabricated” a New York Times report that Pakistan Air Force fighter jets were being used against Yemen’s Houthi movement in Saudi Arabia’s escalating war.
Security forces say nine militants killed in North Waziristan raids on Taliban hideouts
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed nine militants, including four senior commanders, in intelligence-led operations in North Waziristan, security sources and state media said on Thursday.
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 wins IMF staff nod for $1.2 billion after two loan reviews
KARACHI: The International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement with Pakistan on two loan reviews, clearing the way for about $1.2 billion in disbursements once the lender’s board approves.
Petrol now costs more than diesel after latest price reset
ISLAMABAD: The government raised petrol prices by Rs1.82 a litre and cut diesel by Re0.91 for Thursday, the second straight day the two fuels moved in opposite directions under a daily pricing system introduced in July.