ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army to Rawalpindi for six months, according to an interior ministry order dated August 21 and confirmed on Saturday.
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Imran Khan returned to Adiala jail after government reroutes court-ordered hospital visit
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was returned to Adiala prison in the early hours of Friday after a night-time medical examination, following a chaotic sequence of events in which the government appeared to sidestep a Supreme Court order requiring his transfer to a private Islamabad hospital.
Imran Khan moved to hospital under armed guard as govt complies with court order
Imran Khan, the jailed former prime minister, was transferred from his cell in Adiala jail to a private hospital in Islamabad in the early hours of Friday, after days of legal wrangling in which the government resisted a supreme court order to move him.
Pakistan authorities prepare to move Imran Khan from prison to hospital under court deadline
Imran Khan, the jailed former prime minister, was poised to be moved from his prison cell to a private hospital in Islamabad, in what supporters cast as the first real breakthrough in a three-year standoff over his health and treatment behind bars.
Govt risks contempt of court as deadline passes to move Imran Khan to hospital
ISLAMABAD: The government was on Thursday night facing accusations of contempt of court after it failed to move jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to a private hospital in Islamabad, hours before a Supreme Court deadline was due to expire.
Pakistan summons US envoy over ambassador’s Kashmir remarks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan lodged a formal protest with the United States on Wednesday, summoning the American charge d’affaires in Islamabad to convey what the Foreign Office described as a “strong demarche” after the US ambassador to India referred to Jammu and Kashmir as part of India during a visit to the disputed territory.
Iran refuses to reopen Hormuz until US honours ceasefire deal, as truce window lapses
ISLAMABAD: Iran will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until Washington fulfils the commitments it made under a Pakistan-brokered peace framework, the country’s parliament speaker said on Tuesday, as a 60-day deadline for the United States and Iran to strike a lasting settlement passed without agreement.
‘A tragedy and a comedy’: Pakistan military tears into India’s Operation Sindoor documentary
ISLAMABAD: The military has launched a scathing attack on a recently released Indian documentary chronicling last year’s four-day conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, dismissing it as a “propaganda video” that recasts what it called a “military blunder” as a triumph.
Security forces killed six militants in twin Balochistan operations
QUETTA: Security forces killed six suspected militants in two separate operations in Balochistan on Monday, according to security officials, the latest in a string of raids the military says are part of an intensifying campaign against insurgent groups in the restive southwestern province.
Pakistan joins seven Muslim-majority states in condemning Israel’s Gaza road map rejection
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined seven other Muslim-majority nations in a strongly worded rebuke of Israel, accusing it of jeopardising the fragile peace process in Gaza after Benjamin Netanyahu’s government rejected the road map for implementing Donald Trump’s plan to end the war.