Pakistan says US-Iran peace text is finalised — even as Washington and Tehran trade contradictions
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Friday that the United States and Iran had reached agreement on a final text for a peace deal to end more than three months of armed conflict — even as the two sides offered sharply conflicting accounts of what that deal actually contained, casting uncertainty over one of the most consequential diplomatic developments of the year.
Death toll reaches 20 as protesters scatter before dawn in Azad Kashmir – report
RAWALAKOT: They came by the thousands, converging on the eastern edges of this mountain city from across the rugged districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. By midnight Thursday, they were gone.
President Zardari clears final legal hurdle for PIA privatization
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday approved the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (Conversion) (Repeal) Bill, 2026, removing the last legal obstacle to the transfer of the national carrier’s assets, liabilities and management control to a private consortium.
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 budget: Stability preserved, growth deferred
ISLAMABAD: Finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presented a Rs18.77 trillion federal budget on Friday that raises defence spending by almost a fifth, set an ambitious revenue target and offers modest tax relief to the salaried middle class — all while leaving the country’s deeper structural failings largely untouched.
Petrol prices cut for fifth consecutive week
ISLAMABAD: The government has reduced the price of petrol by Rs4 per litre and high-speed diesel by Rs2 per litre, with the new rates taking effect from Saturday.