Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.
Pakistan sends interior minister to Tehran as Houthi strikes on Riyadh threaten to widen Gulf war
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister was due in Tehran on Sunday for what Iran called a purely bilateral visit, as Islamabad struggled to keep its role as go-between in the Iran-US war while being pulled ever closer to a new front in Yemen.
Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former prime minister, detained days ahead of planned capital march
By Staff Reporter LAHORE: Police detained Aleema Khan, the sister of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in Lahore on Sunday, and a district official
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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
Pakistan puts Rs120 billion daily price tag on unrest before Imran Khan’s party takes to streets
Pakistan’s finance minister warned that a wave of planned protests could cost the economy about 120 billion rupees a day, as the government tries to head off marches on the capital by two opposition groups and a farmers’ alliance.
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.