Pakistan rejects Taliban claim of role in Nuristan clashes between rival rebel groups
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically denied any involvement in violence in eastern Afghanistan after the Taliban regime accused Islamabad’s security forces and intelligence agencies of recruiting former Afghan soldiers and funnelling Islamic State-linked fighters across the border — allegations that surfaced hours before a rival account emerged suggesting the casualties in question came from an unrelated battle against an anti-Taliban resistance group.
Pakistan says more than 70 militants killed in four-day Balochistan offensive
QUETTA: Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that security forces had killed more than 71 militants across Balochistan province over the previous 96 hours, in a serious blow to terrorists backed by India and sheltered by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
Pakistan’s new Chinese-built submarine fires first missile in test off Karachi
KARACHI: Pakistan’s navy has carried out the first live missile firing from its newly delivered Chinese-built submarine, a test the military says confirms the vessel’s combat readiness at a moment of heightened friction with India at sea.
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 rejects claims of sovereign guarantee for privatized PIA Boeing fleet
ISLAMABAD: The government pushed back against claims that it is arranging state-backed financing for Pakistan International Airlines’ purchase of Boeing Co. jets, with an adviser saying no sovereign guarantee or public loan has been offered for the newly privatized carrier’s fleet expansion.
Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded
ISLAMABAD: The number of glacial lakes in Pakistan’s mountainous north that have thawed this summer has climbed from 40 to 105 in under two months, according to satellite data released by the country’s national space agency, in a finding that has sharpened warnings over the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding in communities living beneath them.