Govt keeps emergency rule on the table for PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: The government and the main opposition party traded accusations on Friday as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan continued their march towards the capital, intensifying a political standoff that has raised the prospect of federal intervention in the country’s north-west.
PM Sharif calls Pakistan’s commitment to Saudi security “resolute” after deadly Houthi attacks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has pledged to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Saudi Arabia after a run of Houthi missile attacks on the kingdom’s airports, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declaring his country’s commitment to Riyadh’s security “resolute”.
Pakistan says it can mediate for Iran and still defend Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military spokesman has said the country is acting as an “honest broker” between the United States and Iran, even as Islamabad moves towards the military defence of Saudi Arabia against escalating attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement.
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
Remittances rise 12.7 percent in September to $3.6 billion
KARACHI: Pakistan’s workers’ remittances rose 12.7% in September from a year earlier to $3.6 billion, lifting the July-September total to $10.9 billion and adding to the support for an external account that has leaned on money sent home by expatriates, State Bank of Pakistan data showed on Friday.
PIA suspends Riyadh flights after Houthi missile strikes on Saudi airports
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines suspended flights to Riyadh on Friday, becoming the latest carrier to pull out of the Saudi capital after Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted its main airport with missiles and drones.