AJK government brands leading protest group a terrorist organisation days before planned strike
MUZAFFARABAD: The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir formally banned the region’s most prominent protest movement on Friday, designating it a terrorist organisation and deploying thousands of paramilitary and police reinforcements as tensions mounted ahead of a planned mass demonstration and the region’s first general elections in years.
Six militants killed in Panjgur raid as Pakistan steps up campaign against India-linked terror group
ISLAMABAD: The security forces killed six militants in an overnight intelligence-led operation in the southwestern district of Panjgur, the military said Friday, the latest strike in an accelerating counterterrorism campaign that Islamabad has increasingly cast as a proxy war with neighboring India.
Pakistan pushes SCO partners for unified front against terror, cybercrime
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived at a gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s security ministers in Oslo on Friday carrying two distinct, and increasingly urgent, messages: that the region’s governments must forge a unified front against a new generation of technologically sophisticated threats — and that the diplomatic window for ending a dangerous escalation between the United States and Iran was narrowing fast.
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 rolls out one percent fixed tax for small retailers in bid to widen net ahead of IMF-guided budget
ISLAMABAD: The government unveiled a flat-rate tax scheme for small retailers on Friday, offering shopkeepers a simplified one-page filing process and exemption from audit in an effort to drag millions of informal traders into a revenue base long derided as narrow, inequitable and politically resistant to reform.
Telenor taps Citi for Easypaisa Bank sale, marking full Pakistan exit
KARACHI: Norway’s Telenor is working with Citigroup to sell its controlling stake in Pakistani digital lender Easypaisa Bank, Bloomberg reported on Friday, a move that would complete the telecom group’s withdrawal from Pakistan after two decades.