US and Iran trade strikes for eighth straight day
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran traded strikes for an eighth straight day on Sunday, plunging the Middle East deeper into open warfare after an Iranian missile and drone attack on a US air base in Jordan left two American service members dead and a third missing.
Bomb-maker killed, eight detained as Bannu crackdown enters third day
BANNU: For the third straight day, security forces pressed deep into the villages ringing the embattled Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, part of a widening campaign against militants that has left one terrorist killed and eight others in custody, according to police.
Canada’s top diplomat to make first Pakistan visit in two decades, seeking to deepen trade ties
ISLAMABAD: Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand will arrive here on Monday for talks with Pakistani officials, the first visit by a Canadian foreign minister to the country in nearly 20 years, according to officials in both nations.
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’s freelance exports surge to record $1.76 billion, outpacing broader tech sector
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s freelancers generated a record $1.76 billion in export earnings during the 2026 fiscal year, more than four times the total recorded five years earlier, according to figures released by Khurram Schehzad, adviser to the finance minister, on Sunday.
Messi and Argentina face Spain’s perfect machine for World Cup glory
They were meant to meet in Qatar back in March, in a Finalissima billed as a clash of continental champions, before the match was swept aside by the strikes on Iran that reordered so much of the world’s business this year. Today, in the low bowl of MetLife Stadium, Argentina and Spain will finally have their reckoning — only now the stakes have grown considerably. This is not a curtain-raiser. This is the World Cup final.