Makkah defence pact allies sit down with Iran in push to contain regional war
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, joined Saudi Arabia’s defence minister and Turkey’s intelligence chief in Tehran on Monday for talks with Iran’s leadership, the first time Iran has met all three members of a new regional defence pact since Houthi attacks pulled the kingdom deeper into the Middle East war.
Pakistan rejects Taliban claims of civilian deaths in Afghan airstrikes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rejected Afghan Taliban allegations that its strikes inside Afghanistan have killed civilians, insisting its military action has been proportionate and aimed only at militants and the bases that support them.
Punjab extends detention of Imran Khan’s three sisters by 30 days
LAHORE: The Punjab government has extended the detention of Imran Khan’s three sisters by a further 30 days, the Lahore High Court was told on Monday, shortly before a judge closed a petition demanding their release.
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- 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
SBP raises policy rate to 12 percent, says inflation outlook has worsened
KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 12%, its second increase this year, saying the war in the Middle East and a jump in domestic wheat prices have darkened the inflation outlook.
Gen Abdul Waheed Kakar, army chief who ended Pakistan’s 1993 power struggle, dies aged 89
ISLAMABAD: Retired General Abdul Waheed Kakar, the former army chief whose intervention in 1993 led to the resignation of both Pakistan’s president and its prime minister, has died in Rawalpindi at the age of 89, the military said on Monday.