LAHORE: Two of Pakistan’s most prominent cricketers, Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq, presented themselves before the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency in Lahore on Thursday, as officials pressed ahead with an inquiry into alleged leaks from the team’s dressing room during its troubled tour of England.
Aamir Ashraf
Pakistan heads into IMF review with revenue and reform gaps
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing for a pivotal encounter with the International Monetary Fund this month, as a staff mission arrives to assess whether the South Asian nation has done enough to keep its $7 billion bailout on track despite a persistent revenue shortfall and stalled anti-corruption reforms.
Afghan medical students take fight over Pakistan’s expulsion order to Lahore court
LAHORE: Thirteen Afghan medical students filed suit against Pakistan’s top medical regulator on Thursday, asking a provincial court to block an order that would send them home to Afghanistan before they finish the degrees they have spent years pursuing.
Qatar LNG tanker docks in Karachi after first open Hormuz crossing in six weeks
KARACHI: A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker docked in Pakistan on Thursday after openly crossing the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in nearly six weeks, a rare success for Gulf energy shipments even as the US and Iran traded their heaviest wave of tanker attacks since their war began.
Sindh minister apologises to judicial panel probing Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: The Sindh home minister stood before a judicial commission Thursday and apologised without qualification, seeking to put to rest a dispute that had briefly stalled the panel’s inquiry into the death of a 25-year-old businessman whose family has insisted for weeks that he was murdered.
PM Sharif to press for Iran diplomacy as UN gathering opens under war’s shadow – report
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to New York later this month to address the United Nations General Assembly, where he is expected to press the case that the war between the United States and Iran should end at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield — a message Islamabad has delivered, with mixed results, since the conflict reignited this summer.
Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Saudi attacks escalate, testing new defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has delivered a pointed warning to Iran to restrain its Houthi allies in Yemen, after a surge of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia left dozens wounded and threatened to pull the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance into its first real test.
Pakistan hikes fuel prices a third day as Brent tops $100 on Iran escalation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised petrol and diesel prices for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, pushing pump costs to their highest level in more than a month as international crude surged past $100 a barrel on an escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.
Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university
LAHORE: Twenty Afghan medical students at King Edward Medical University were given 24 hours to report to the administration and begin the process of leaving Pakistan. Seven were in their final year of training. For the women among them, the order does not just interrupt a degree. It sends them back to a country where they are barred from attending university at all.
Pakistan seeks bids to import 750,000 tons of wheat to plug provincial shortfall
KARACHI: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan, the state-run trading agency, issued an international tender on Wednesday inviting global suppliers to bid for 750,000 metric tons of wheat from the 2026 harvest, as the government moves to shore up domestic supplies after provinces flagged tightening stockpiles ahead of the winter months.