US-Iran negotiations begin in Switzerland amid fresh fighting in Lebanon
ISLAMABAD: Senior American and Iranian officials have opened direct negotiations in Switzerland to implement a fragile ceasefire agreement, with US Vice President JD Vance warning that both sides faced a choice between peace and “going back to doing things the old way” as escalating violence in Lebanon threatened to undermine the talks almost before they had begun.
Four Muslim powers urge swift conclusion to US-Iran talks in Switzerland
ISLAMABAD: Four of the Muslim world’s most significant powers have publicly committed themselves to the fragile diplomatic enterprise seeking a permanent end to the US-Iran conflict, urging a “swift and successful” conclusion to technical negotiations even as delegations from Washington and Tehran gathered on the shores of Lake Lucerne on Sunday for the most substantive talks since an interim agreement was reached earlier this week.
PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday named Amjad Hussain, a veteran lawyer and the Pakistan Peoples Party’s provincial president in Gilgit-Baltistan, as the region’s incoming chief minister, completing a swift consolidation of power after elections that were delayed, disputed and ultimately inconclusive in several constituencies.
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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
Telecom land-grab bill stalls in Senate as lawmakers warn it threatens constitutional property rights
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: A sweeping overhaul of Pakistan’s telecommunications laws has run into fierce parliamentary resistance, with the Senate standing committee demanding a 45-day
NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national disaster authority has placed the entire country on emergency alert, warning that a convergent weather system will bring thunderstorms, flash flooding, destructive high winds and — in the country’s glaciated north — the sudden, potentially catastrophic release of glacial lakes, all within the next 12 to 24 hours.