Pakistan condemns Houthi missile strikes on Saudi Arabia, reaffirms support for Kingdom security
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday condemned a barrage of ballistic missiles that Yemen’s Houthi movement fired at Saudi Arabia, invoking a year-old mutual defense pact between the two countries and warning that the attack threatened to further destabilize an already volatile Middle East.
US strikes Iran for third straight night as Trump moves to charge toll on Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: The United States carried out a five-hour bombing campaign against Iran early on Tuesday, the third consecutive night of American strikes, as President Trump moved to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz and declared that ships passing through it would owe Washington a fee.
Six more militants killed in Balochistan, pushing month’s death toll past 120
QUETTA: Security forces killed six more militants in Balochistan province on Tuesday, officials said, raising to 85 the number of terrorists killed since the launch of a major counterterrorism sweep earlier this month.
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 stocks post steepest drop in months as Hormuz blockade returns
KARACHI: Pakistani stocks suffered their sharpest one-day selloff in months on Tuesday, as investors dumped equities across the board after US President Donald Trump reinstated a US naval blockade of Iran and floated a 20% toll on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.
Pakistan narrows mobile internet gender gap to 8 percent – but ownership divide remains widest globally
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded the fastest reduction in its mobile internet gender gap of any country tracked globally, according to the government, narrowing the divide between men’s and women’s usage from 38 percent in 2024 to 8 percent this year.