ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed that Pakistan will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Saudi Arabia against escalating Houthi attacks that have killed and wounded Pakistani nationals in the kingdom.
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Peshawar school owner arrested after roof collapse kills 32 children and a teacher
PESHAWAR: At least 32 children and a teacher were killed on Thursday when the roof of a privately run school collapsed onto classrooms in Peshawar, in a disaster police blamed on a weak building carrying too much weight.
UPDATE: Death toll from Peshawar school roof collapse rises to 28
PESHAWAR: At least 28 people, almost all of them schoolchildren, have been killed after the roof of a private school collapsed in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.
Emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gets parliament’s backing; PTI walks out of Senate
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s parliament has endorsed the imposition of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, giving legal cover to the federal government’s removal of the opposition PTI party from power in the northwestern province.
PM Sharif says govt was “compelled” to take over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has defended the federal takeover of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a last resort forced on his government by a provincial administration he accused of refusing to confront terrorism, while the opposition denounced it as an unconstitutional assault on an elected government.
Pakistan holds KP chief minister and hundreds of PTI members after emergency takeover
ISLAMABAD: Police have detained 278 members of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since the federal government imposed emergency rule on Sunday, AFP reported on Monday.
President Zardari signs off on emergency, governor’s rule in Imran Khan-Party stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, a sharp escalation in the federal government’s standoff with the opposition party that runs the northwestern province, after President Asif Ali Zardari approved a recommendation from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet.
Emergency rule looms over Imran Khan’s political stronghold
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s president and prime minister have agreed to recall both houses of parliament on Tuesday, with the government widely reported to be preparing to impose an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the northwestern province run by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Govt keeps emergency rule on the table for PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: The government and the main opposition party traded accusations on Friday as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan continued their march towards the capital, intensifying a political standoff that has raised the prospect of federal intervention in the country’s north-west.
Imran Khan’s party marches into Peshawar with destination still unclear
PESHAWAR: Supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan marched into the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, the fifth day of a protest convoy whose final destination has still not been announced.