Pakistan sends army chief, two ministers to Riyadh for emergency defence alliance meeting
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister, defence minister and army chief travelled to Riyadh on Monday for emergency talks with Saudi and Turkish officials under their three-nation defence pact, after a sharp escalation in fighting between Saudi-backed forces and Yemen’s Houthis.
Terrorism and Imran Khan’s health: the two issues that sank Islamabad march talks
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Sunday accused Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister of “sabotaging” negotiations, after two days of talks failed to stop a march on the capital by supporters of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
Pakistan prepares to bring home survivors and the dead after tanker siege ends in bloodshed
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working to bring home four seafarers freed from a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia, along with the bodies of three colleagues killed by their captors, as families in Karachi brace for a homecoming that will bring relief to some and a funeral to others.
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’s September trade gap widens to $3.56 billion on faster import growth
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit widened in September as a rebound in exports failed to keep pace with a larger rise in imports, leaving the shortfall for the first three months of the fiscal year more than $1.4 billion wider than a year earlier.
Eleven militants killed in Waziristan and Balochistan raids
PESHAWAR: Security forces have killed 11 militants in separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, sources said on Saturday, days after Islamabad bombed targets inside Afghanistan and accused the Taliban government in Kabul of sponsoring terrorism.