Pakistan says US and Iran are nearing Hormuz deal — but Trump, Tehran dig in over compensation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan believes the United States and Iran are edging towards an agreement capable of defusing the confrontation that has kept global energy markets on edge for months, even as Washington and Tehran continued on Tuesday to trade incompatible demands over compensation and control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Two Pakistanis among three killed in missile strike on cargo ship in Bab al-Mandeb
ISLAMABAD: At least four crew members — three of them Pakistani — were killed and several others wounded on Tuesday when a cargo vessel carrying food supplies came under missile fire in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, in what would be the first fatal Houthi strike on shipping since the war between Iran and Israel erupted in February.
Man shot dead by security forces after opening fire on Rawalpindi patrol; govt, PTI clash over affiliation claims
ISLAMABAD: A man was shot dead by security forces in Rawalpindi on Tuesday after he allegedly opened fire on a police patrol on the city’s Mall Road, wounding one officer, in an incident that has reignited a bitter row between the government and Pakistan’s largest opposition party.
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
Truckers’ strike enters fourth day as fuel cost standoff persists; petrol pumps threaten to join shutdown
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s nationwide truckers’ strike ground into a fourth day on Tuesday after a fresh round of talks between the government and the country’s largest transport alliance again failed to produce a breakthrough, leaving oil tankers, container trucks and freight haulers parked nationwide with no resolution in sight.
New forensic tests add evidence but little clarity on gunshot wounds in Mir Raza Ali murder case
KARACHI: Investigators examining the murder of the young Karachi entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali have received a chemical examiner’s report and the results of a DNA test, but say the findings are not yet conclusive enough to point the investigation in a clear direction, sources close to the case said.