MQM-P calls for ‘grand national dialogue’ on new provinces, reigniting old fault lines over Sindh
KARACHI: Pakistan’s fractious debate over redrawing its provincial map erupted again on Sunday, after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan announced it would lead a “grand national dialogue” on creating new provinces — a proposal that has already split the government’s own coalition and reignited historic tensions over the future of Sindh.
Security forces kill seven terrorists in Balochistan intelligence raid
QUETTA: Security forces killed seven terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan’s Kharan district on Sunday, according to state media, in the latest of a string of raids conducted across the province this month as the security situation there continues to deteriorate sharply.
Rain, gusty winds to sweep Pakistan for five days as authorities warn of urban flooding
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is bracing for another bout of heavy monsoon weather, with the Meteorological Department forecasting rain, gusty winds and thundershowers across the upper and central parts of the country from August 17 to 21, alongside warnings of urban flooding and landslides in vulnerable districts.
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 suspend 9-day strike with 40-day truce after govt offers concessions
KARACHI: Pakistan’s largest goods transport alliance called off a nine-day nationwide strike on Sunday, agreeing to a 40-day pause after the federal and Sindh governments offered concessions on fuel pricing, toll taxes and vehicle load limits that had brought cargo movement across the country to a standstill.
Carriage ride through Islamabad parade draws cries of ‘colonial’ excess
The horses arrived first. The applause never did.
That is the image Pakistanis have been passing around since Saturday: two of the country’s senior bureaucrats, riding into an Independence Day parade in a carriage built for heads of state, to a crowd that would not clap.