Pakistan urges restraint as Iran’s interior minister visits amid collapsing US ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on all parties to exercise restraint in the escalating conflict between Iran and the United States on Tuesday, as Pakistan sought to shore up a ceasefire agreement it brokered that has come under renewed strain from fighting in the Gulf.
Azad Kashmir elections split into three phases as security strains reshape polling
MUZAFFARABAD: Elections in Azad Kashmir have been split into three separate phases, with polling now stretching into August, after officials said troops needed to be freed up from duties elsewhere in the country to secure the vote following weeks of deadly unrest.
Pakistan on high alert as monsoon deaths pass 50 and flash flood warning issued for four provinces
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s disaster management authority has issued a high alert for flash floods, urban flooding and landslides across large swathes of the country, after monsoon rains killed at least a dozen more people in the northwest over a single 24-hour period, pushing the nationwide death toll for the season past 50.
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- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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 hires bank consortiums for Eurobonds, Sukuk sales
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan appointed international bank consortiums to arrange a fresh round of Eurobond, Sukuk and rupee-denominated dollar bond sales, building on the South Asian nation’s return to global capital markets earlier this year.
Pakistan fuel retailers to shut 15,000 pumps over daily pricing rule
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s largest fuel retailer association said it will shut roughly 15,000 petrol pumps nationwide from Thursday, escalating a standoff with the government over a new daily pricing mechanism that dealers say threatens their survival.