Ten policemen killed in militant ambush near Kohat
PESHAWAR: Ten police officers, including a deputy superintendent, died in north-west Pakistan on Wednesday when militants ambushed their convoy on its way back from an operation against illegal gold mining, and police said 18 of the attackers were killed in the fighting.
After months of restricted access, Imran Khan meets lawyers for three hours
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers for Imran Khan, jailed former prime minister, spent about three hours with him and his wife, Bushra Bibi, inside Adiala jail on Wednesday, well beyond the hour the Islamabad High Court had ordered.
PM Sharif puts $188bn price tag on Pakistan’s clean energy switch
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told world leaders at the COP31 climate summit that Pakistan’s households had added nearly 22 gigawatts of rooftop solar in two years, then warned the transition would stall unless richer nations help pay for it.
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 pays $14.4 billion on foreign debt, lifting total to $98 billion
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan repaid about $14.4 billion on external public debt in the fiscal year through June while taking in $16.2 billion in foreign loans, most of it to support the budget, rebuild foreign-exchange reserves and steady the rupee, leaving its overseas debt stock at $98.1 billion.
Smog crisis exposes the limits of the instruments and the arguments on both sides of the Pakistan-India border
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab government declared smog “not a political issue” on Wednesday, the same day its environment agency published an assessment blaming Indian Diwali fireworks for a surge in pollution across the province.