Pakistan seeks to revive Iran-US truce, but Pentagon keeps strikes ‘on the Table’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Tuesday it had made “significant progress” toward reviving a fractured peace framework between Iran and the United States, following a day-long visit by the country’s top military and security officials to Tehran, even as US officials signalled they had not ruled out further military action against Iran.
PTI refiles contempt petition over Imran Khan’s diverted hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan registrar’s office on Tuesday accepted a refiled contempt of court petition accusing senior government officials of defying a court order that directed jailed former prime minister Imran Khan be transferred to a private hospital for medical treatment, after an earlier version of the filing was returned for procedural deficiencies.
American mountaineer Sarah Mallory Geis’s remains brought down from Broad Peak
SKARDU: The body of an American mountaineer who died in an avalanche on one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks was airlifted on Tuesday, more than three weeks after she and nine other climbers were buried in a wall of snow and ice on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan.
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 launches feasibility study for strategic petroleum reserves with Wood Mackenzie
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began a feasibility study on Tuesday to determine whether the South Asian nation should build strategic petroleum reserves, turning to global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie as it seeks to shore up defences against the kind of supply shocks that have rattled global oil markets this year.
Pakistan weighs scrapping Rs10 note as printing costs bite
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s central bank is considering scrapping its lowest-denomination banknote, the Rs10 note, as officials weigh the rising cost of printing currency that’s becoming increasingly expensive to produce.