ISLAMABAD: The security forces intercepted two rudimentary drones Friday that authorities said were launched from Afghanistan by the Taliban regime and its proxies, bringing them down with electronic countermeasures before they could strike intended targets near Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjacent to the capital.
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Imran Khan’s party threatens post-Eid protests, accusing government of endangering ex-PM’s health
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party warned on Friday that it would not tolerate what it called the government’s “criminal negligence” in the medical treatment of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, signalling it was prepared to launch a large-scale movement for his release once the Eid holidays end.
PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi sworn in as Sindh governor after abrupt ouster of MQM-P ally
KARACHI: Nehal Hashmi, a longtime stalwart of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, took the oath of office on Friday as the new governor of Sindh, capping a rapid and unexpected appointment that has strained relations within Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition.
Pakistan pauses fuel price hike even as Iran war drives oil near $100
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif opted against raising petroleum product prices on Friday, choosing to shield consumers from the latest surge in global oil costs triggered by the widening Middle East war.
US probes 60 economies, including Pakistan, over failure to enforce forced-labor import bans
ISLAMABAD: The United States Trade Representative opened investigations into whether 60 foreign governments, including Pakistan, have neglected to ban imports of goods produced with forced labor, a step that could lead to fresh tariffs as the Trump administration seeks to reshape US trade enforcement.
Pakistan’s domestic power boom shields economy from LNG supply shocks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has cut its vulnerability to global liquefied natural gas disruptions by steadily shifting electricity generation toward indigenous sources, including a surge in rooftop solar, nuclear reactors, local coal and hydropower, Power Minister Awais Leghari said.
Pakistan says it hit Taliban-linked targets deep inside Afghanistan in overnight strikes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s armed forces carried out a fresh round of precision airstrikes inside Afghanistan overnight, destroying key Taliban-linked terrorist infrastructure, including a corps headquarters in Kabul and training camps near the border, the information minister and military sources said on Friday.
Blast kills seven officers on patrol in Pakistan’s northwest as terrorism linked to Afghan border escalates
PESHAWAR: An improvised explosive device ripped through a police patrol vehicle in a remote tribal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing seven officers including a station house officer and leaving authorities scrambling to hunt down the attackers in a region increasingly gripped by militant violence.
Pakistan lowers speed limits on motorways and highways to conserve fuel amid global oil crisis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reduced speed limits on its motorways and national highways on Thursday as part of a broader push to curb fuel consumption in response to surging global oil prices triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran.