Trump and Iran agree framework to end war — but the devil is buried in the detail
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran declared an end to months of devastating war on Sunday night, announcing a framework agreement that would halt military operations, lift America’s naval blockade of Iranian ports and reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the critical Gulf waterway that Tehran has effectively closed to global shipping since the conflict began in February.
Two killed in Rawalakot as PPP moves to postpone AJK elections over escalating unrest
MUZAFFARABAD: Two people were killed and eight others wounded in clashes between protesters and law enforcement in the Azad Kashmir city of Rawalakot in the early hours of Sunday, as a deepening political crisis over forthcoming regional elections exposed significant fractures within Pakistan’s ruling coalition.
Imran Khan receives fifth eye injection in hospital visit as row over imprisoned former premier’s medical care deepens
RAWALPINDI: Imran Khan was transported from Adiala Jail to a hospital in Islamabad on Monday to receive his fifth course of treatment for a serious eye condition, intensifying a months-long political dispute over the adequacy of care being provided to Pakistan’s most prominent political prisoner.
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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
SBP seen pausing rate hikes as US-Iran peace deal reshapes oil outlook
KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank faces one of its more unusual policy meetings in recent memory on Monday, convening its Monetary Policy Committee just hours after the United States and Iran announced a peace deal that dramatically altered the geopolitical backdrop that had driven the South Asian nation’s first interest-rate increase in nearly three years.
Monsoon storms kill ten across Pakistan as climate funding falls far short of crisis scale
ISLAMABAD: At least ten people have been killed and more than 40 injured across Pakistan after a 72-hour spell of monsoon rains, severe thunderstorms and flash flooding swept through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, leaving a trail of collapsed roofs, overturned vehicles and inundated valleys.