KARACHI: Pakistan is poised to receive its first Qatari liquefied natural gas cargo to clear the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to a power grid that has been rationing electricity for months amid the regional conflict gripping the Persian Gulf.
Aamir Ashraf
Pakistan remittances rise 16.5 percent as Gulf states anchor inflows
KARACHI: Pakistan’s overseas workers sent home $3.656 billion in August, extending a run of double-digit gains that is helping cushion the country’s external accounts as it navigates a widening trade gap.
Senators clash in fiery hearing over Gujranwala sanitation worker’s death
ISLAMABAD: A Senate hearing into the death of a Gujranwala sanitation worker descended into open hostility on Wednesday, as two senators traded sharp words across the committee room while officials from Suthra Punjab faced sustained questioning over the circumstances of his death.
Pakistan warns Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia could trigger trilateral defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defence minister has warned that a fresh wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia could be enough to activate a fledgling trilateral defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara, as the Yemeni conflict edges closer to spilling across the kingdom’s southern border.
Pakistan welcomes 12-nation push to curb trade with Israeli settlements
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed a coordinated decision by Britain, France and Canada to impose trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as Israel responded to the move by ordering the closure of the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem and barring a dozen British parliamentarians from entering the country.
Eleven militants killed as security forces foil highway ambush and raid bomb-making hideout
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 11 militants and seized nearly three tonnes of explosives in two operations in restive Balochistan province, the military said, in the latest in a string of raids as the south-western region grapples with a marked rise in violence.
PPP chief says interior minister ‘entitled to his opinion’ but demands new provinces row be settled in National Assembly
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has called for the contentious question of creating new provinces to be settled through debate in Parliament, rather than in the public statements and forums that have inflamed tensions between his party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led government’s most senior security official over the past six weeks.
Thousands of Afghan medical students told to leave Pakistan as deportation drive widens
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s medical regulator has ordered thousands of Afghan nationals studying at medical and dental colleges across the country to return home, in one of the most far-reaching measures yet in Islamabad’s escalating campaign against Afghan citizens living within its borders.
Pakistan fuel costs climb for second day as Houthi attack roils Oil market
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised gasoline and diesel prices for a second consecutive day, as the government’s new daily pricing mechanism transmits gains in global crude markets directly to motorists just as an attack on Saudi energy facilities threatens to widen the conflict roiling the Middle East.
Babar Azam blindsided by Pakistan cricket cull as England eye series whitewash
LAHORE: Babar Azam has revealed he was given no warning of the extraordinary shake-up that saw his head coach sacked and seven players sent home mid-series, telling reporters in Birmingham that the sweeping changes were “news to me” as well.