Four nations agree to pool military production under new ‘Badr’ pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey and Indonesia have signed a multilateral defence pact to pool military production, research and training, with other countries able to join later.
Pakistan and Maldives target $200m trade in two years after signing 20 agreements
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the Maldives have pledged to increase their bilateral trade from about $13.9m to $200m within two years, after their leaders exchanged 20 cooperation agreements during a state visit to Islamabad.
‘Snakes and snakelets’: Imran Khan’s PTI fractures in public
PESHAWAR: Two of Imran Khan’s most senior lieutenants have accused each other in public of damaging Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), exposing deep fractures in the jailed former prime minister’s party after the collapse of its Islamabad march and the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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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
Petrol falls to Rs379 while diesel edges up to Rs390
ISLAMABAD: The government cut the price of petrol by Rs2.71 a liter and raised diesel by 31 paisas for Thursday, a day after both fuels edged higher, with crude oil still hovering near five-month highs.
Jamaat-e-Islami returns to the streets over fuel levy
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami party will begin a third phase of protests against the petroleum levy on Friday, a month after it called off a march on Islamabad at the prime minister’s request.