Pakistan says its quiet diplomacy in US-Iran conflict has elevated its global standing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Islamabad’s role in brokering a ceasefire between the United States and Iran had fundamentally transformed its international standing, describing the country as a newly recognised “middle power and net security provider” with ambitions to become an economic force.
Coalition partners clash over local polls; PPP sets 90-day challenge for PML-N
ISLAMABAD: The ruling coalition partners exchanged increasingly sharp public rebukes on Thursday over local government elections, with the Pakistan Peoples Party announcing that Sindh province would hold polls in 2027 and challenging its federal ally, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, to do the same in Punjab and Islamabad within 90 days.
Pakistan marks Ashura with massive processions and heavy security presence nationwide
ISLAMABAD: Millions of Pakistanis took to the streets on Friday for Ashura, the most solemn day of the Islamic month of Muharram, as authorities deployed tens of thousands of security personnel across the country — a day after four people died from suffocation during a procession in the southern province of Sindh.
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 digital payments hit Rs168.8 trillion in Q3 as mobile transactions surge
KARACHI: Pakistan processed 3.7 billion retail banking transactions worth 168.8 trillion rupees in the January-March quarter, with digital channels accounting for the vast majority of that activity, the State Bank of Pakistan said on Thursday, underscoring the sweeping transformation of the country’s payments landscape.
Minor girl, 3, found raped and killed in sack outside family home; relatives among suspects
KARACHI: Police have taken DNA samples from 12 suspects, including relatives of the victim, as they investigate the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a sack outside her home in Karachi, officials said on Thursday.