ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called on Arab and Muslim-majority countries to present a united front against Israeli actions in Jerusalem, warning that repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by settlers risk dragging the wider region, and adherents of multiple faiths, into a broader conflict.

KARACHI: Police fired tear gas and baton-charged demonstrators in Karachi on Wednesday as supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf took to the streets across the country to mark three years since the former prime minister’s imprisonment, in scenes that brought parts of the port city to a standstill.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered officials to draw up a “comprehensive strategy” for luring international investors into the country’s power-distribution privatization program and told the Privatization Commission to finish its own institutional overhaul within a month, as the government presses ahead with a sale process the International Monetary Fund has linked to broader fiscal reform.

GILGIT: A rescue team has brought the bodies of the celebrated climber Nirmal Purja and three members of his expedition down to the base camp of Broad Peak, the Pakistani mountain on which they died in an avalanche last week, the Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed.