Pakistan hits 10 targets inside Afghanistan in retaliation for drone incursion
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out air and drone strikes against 10 locations inside Afghanistan, in the second cross-border military action in three days and the latest escalation in a rapidly deteriorating conflict with the Taliban government in Kabul.
PM Sharif meets Iran’s president in New York to save collapsed peace deal
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in New York on Thursday, resuming a diplomatic effort that has become one of the few remaining threads connecting Washington and Tehran after months of war, air strikes and a naval blockade that shows no sign of lifting.
Rangers deployed, motorways shut, Islamabad sealed ahead of PTI march demanding Imran Khan’s release
ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the deployment of Pakistan Rangers across Islamabad Capital Territory and several districts of Punjab, running from 20 September to 5 October, in anticipation of a nationwide protest called by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party founded by the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. The move comes as major motorways linking the capital to the rest of the country remain closed, supporters and relatives of Khan are held in detention, and the government and opposition trade accusations over secret talks that neither side will fully confirm.
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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
Four refiners sign $5 billion upgrade deal after seven-year delay
ISLAMABAD: Four of Pakistan’s five oil refiners signed binding agreements with the government on Thursday to spend roughly $5 billion over five years upgrading their plants, ending a stalemate that stretched nearly seven years and blocked one of the country’s largest planned industrial investments.
Power utility K-Electric’s rate battle ends in defeat
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority won a bid to keep in place a steep cut to K-Electric Ltd.’s power tariff, a decision that preserves close to 200 billion rupees in savings for the government and deals a setback to a utility already grappling with a bank-led liquidity squeeze.