Pakistan-bound gas tanker hit hours after Iran gave safe passage
ISLAMABAD: Qatar has reserved the right to take “all necessary measures” to protect its ships after a Pakistan-bound liquefied natural gas tanker came under fire near the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Iran was understood to have approved its passage.
Imran Khan’s PTI denies split and threatens action against dissenters
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has denied that it is divided and warned that it will take action against any member who breaches party discipline.
Imran Khan’s lawyer meets jailed ex-PM for first time in seven months
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s lawyer has met the jailed former prime minister and his wife, Bushra Bibi, for the first time in months, saying 40 minutes inside Adiala jail was too little to cover their cases.
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- 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 taps refinery profits to cap cost of petrol
ISLAMABAD: Oil refiners will absorb about 15 billion rupees a month to keep petrol 15 rupees a liter cheaper than international prices would dictate, the government said, averting an increase that was due to take effect last Friday.
Lahore chokes in hazardous smog, with air quality index above 530
LAHORE: Lahore was shrouded in hazardous smog on Monday, with its air quality index passing 530 and satellite data showing a sharp rise in crop-stubble fires across Punjab.