By Staff Reporter LAHORE: Police detained Aleema Khan, the sister of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in Lahore on Sunday, and a district official
Aamir Ashraf
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.
Talks collapse, JI to press ahead with fuel-tax protest march in Islamabad
LAHORE: Talks between the government and the country’s largest Islamist party collapsed on Saturday, leaving the authorities facing a week of mass protest in and around the capital after Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) refused to call off a march against fuel taxes.
Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.
Only jailed Imran Khan can call off march on Islamabad, opposition says
ISLAMABAD: The opposition has said that nobody but the jailed Imran Khan can call off a planned march on the capital, confirming that the interior minister met opposition leaders in private just days before publicly promising to stop the protest by force of law.
Pakistan moves to fix gaps in PM Sharif’s fuel relief scheme as uptake tops 1.7 million
ISLAMABAD: The government moved to broaden and tidy up Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s fuel relief program on Saturday, ordering that every operating fuel station be brought onto the system, allowing token redemption by text message where there is no internet, and loosening the rules for motorcycle, rickshaw and Qingqi riders who make up the bulk of enrollees.
Pakistan sends interior minister to Tehran as Houthi strikes on Riyadh threaten to widen Gulf war
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister was due in Tehran on Sunday for what Iran called a purely bilateral visit, as Islamabad struggled to keep its role as go-between in the Iran-US war while being pulled ever closer to a new front in Yemen.
Taliban threaten “crushing response” if Pakistan strikes Afghanistan – but ask Saudi Arabia to help broker peace
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have warned Pakistan of a “crushing response” to any military action on Afghan territory, while at the same time appealing for Saudi Arabia to help resolve the bitter dispute between the two neighbours.
Pakistan warns Red Sea and Hormuz crises threaten global energy and food supplies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called on Yemen’s Houthi movement to halt attacks on merchant shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as the United Nations Security Council met for the second time in a week to discuss the growing threat to one of the world’s most important trade routes.
Security forces kill 11 militants in two Balochistan operations
QUETTA: Security forces have killed 11 militants in a pair of operations in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan, state media reported on Saturday, the latest in a rapid succession of military actions as violence across the region intensifies.