Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign mutual defence pact as Gulf reels from Iran conflict
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a landmark joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, binding together three of the Muslim world’s most powerful states as they seek to shore up their defences against a regional conflict that has sent missiles raining down on Gulf oil producers.
Kashmir election watchdog pulls plug on Poonch and Sudhnoti polls amid security fears
MUZAFFARABAD: The election authority in Azad Kashmir has abandoned plans to hold polling across two entire districts on Sunday, citing fears for the safety of voters in a region shaken by nearly two months of deadly unrest.
Ten militants killed in South Waziristan and Dir operations, ISPR says
ISLAMABAD: Ten militants were killed in two separate counterterrorism operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, the military’s media wing said on Friday, as Pakistan continues to grapple with a sustained rise in violence along its western border.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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
Turkish, Chinese firms join local giants in race for Fesco sale
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s privatization drive for its state-owned power distribution companies cleared its first major hurdle, with the government reporting a dozen expressions of interest from investors seeking to take control of Faisalabad Electric Supply Co., one of three regional utilities up for sale in the country’s most ambitious power-sector overhaul in decades.
Family blocks exhumation of Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali over medical board dispute
KARACHI: The exhumation of a 25-year-old Karachi businessman whose body was found dumped in bushes last month was called off on Friday, after his family refused to allow a hastily reassembled medical board to carry out the procedure.