PESHAWAR: Security forces have ended a siege of a police compound in the north-western city of Kohat, killing eight militants after an assault that began with a suicide car bombing at a mosque and left at least 23 people dead.
Aamir Ashraf
Pakistan sees profit repatriation fall to $558 million on payout timing
KARACHI: Foreign companies took less money out of Pakistan in the first two months of the fiscal year, a lagging signal of how thinly the country attracted investment during a Gulf war that is still unfolding.
Textile exports rise 5.6 percent as costs, regional war weigh on growth
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile and clothing exports grew at a modest pace in the first two months of the fiscal year, held back by high input costs and by shocks that have disrupted shipments to two of the country’s regional markets.
Pakistan property gets a lift as Gulf war sours investors on Dubai
KARACHI: Some of Pakistan’s wealthiest investors are selling Dubai property and steering part of the proceeds into luxury real estate in Karachi, builders and dealers say, an unexpected windfall for the local market from a war that has undermined the emirate’s standing as a haven for South Asian money.
Lambeth Palace rescinds interfaith honour to cleric Tahir Ashrafi who offered bin Laden the title “Sword of God”
ISLAMABAD: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s office on Thursday withdrew an interfaith award it had presented to a prominent Pakistani cleric six days earlier, after remarks he made about Osama bin Laden in 2007 resurfaced and drew condemnation on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Pakistan trims fuel prices slightly after week of steep increases
ISLAMABAD: The government trimmed the price of petrol and diesel on Friday, a modest reversal after a week in which fuel costs climbed to their highest in months and pushed the government into a fresh round of austerity and subsidies.
Islamabad braces for showdown as minister Naqvi vows to stop Imran Khan’s supporters reaching capital “in every possible way”
ISLAMABAD: The government has vowed to stop supporters of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from marching on Islamabad “in every possible way”, warning that security forces have been given clear rules of engagement and will not stay silent if they come under fire.
Suicide bombers and gunmen attack Kohat police compound, killing at least 21
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mosque inside a police compound in north-west Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 21 people, before gunmen tried to storm the complex and fought security forces for hours.
Pakistan’s tough talk for Saudi Arabia keeps hardening, testing an untested defence pact
KARACHI: Pakistan will defend Saudi Arabia “to any extent,” a senior military spokesman said on Thursday — the toughest yet in a run of statements from Islamabad that have hardened by the day as the kingdom faces its heaviest barrage of Houthi drone and missile strikes in the current hostilities.
Six soldiers martyred in IED attack as violence surges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: Six soldiers were martyred on Wednesday when an improvised explosive device struck their convoy in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military said, the latest in a wave of attacks that has made the region bordering Afghanistan the epicentre of Pakistan’s militant crisis.