Sharif, Munir pay Pakistani respects to Khamenei as Iran opens week of funeral rites
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir paid their respects on Friday at the coffin of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Tehran opened a week of funeral rites for the man who led the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades.
US backs Pakistan’s right to self-defence as UN splinters over terrorism strategy
ISLAMABAD: The United States on Thursday reaffirmed its support for Pakistan’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks, as a UN vote this week exposed rare discord over the world body’s flagship counterterrorism strategy, with Washington breaking two decades of consensus to vote against the text.
At least 40 killed as overloaded bus plunges into ravine in northwest Pakistan
QUETTA: At least 40 people were killed and eight injured on Friday when an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine on a mountain road straddling the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents in years.
BITES
- 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 trims petrol, diesel prices, but levy changes limit the benefit
KARACHI: The government lowered gasoline and diesel prices for the first time in roughly three weeks, passing on part of the recent decline in global crude costs to motorists while a simultaneous tax increase curbed the size of the relief.
Britain, Pakistan in talks over deporting convicted child rapist Shabir Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: British officials have opened talks with the government of Pakistan over deporting Shabir Ahmed, the convicted ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, who walked out of prison this week after serving roughly half of a 19-year sentence for the rape and sexual exploitation of children, according to the BBC.