PM Sharif tells India: “every drop” of water is a red line
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister has warned India that any interference with the country’s water supply will be treated as a red line, using the unveiling of a war memorial in Islamabad to deliver a pointed warning to Delhi over the fate of a decades-old water-sharing treaty.
Murder inquiry turns to dead entrepreneur’s bank records and smartwatch
KARACHI: The team investigating the murder of a 25-year-old Karachi dessert entrepreneur are examining a trail of drained bank accounts and deactivated social media profiles in the days before his death, as a dispute has broken out between his family and police over who has had access to a smartwatch that may hold crucial digital evidence.
Pakistan orders diplomatic push as sailors held by Somali pirates enter fourth month of captivity
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has ordered officials to step up diplomatic contacts with Somali authorities and international partners in an effort to secure the release of ten Pakistani sailors who have now been held hostage by pirates for almost four months.
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 raises fuel dealer margins by Rs1.34/liter, averting nationwide strike
The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet approved an increase in the margins earned by petroleum dealers on Friday, defusing a threatened nationwide strike that would have shut fuel pumps across the country starting Saturday.
Norway’s foreign minister lands in Islamabad with his own suitcase — and an invitation to invest
ISLAMABAD: Norway’s foreign minister arrived in Islamabad on Thursday carrying his own luggage off a commercial flight, an unassuming entrance that briefly overshadowed the substance of the first visit by a Norwegian foreign minister to Pakistan in ten years.