KARACHI: Pakistan’s fractious debate over redrawing its provincial map erupted again on Sunday, after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan announced it would lead a “grand national dialogue” on creating new provinces — a proposal that has already split the government’s own coalition and reignited historic tensions over the future of Sindh.
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Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle
QUETTA: Security forces killed ten suspected militants and wounded several more during a gun battle in the mountains of Balochistan on Saturday, in the latest of a string of operations against a group the state accuses India of sponsoring.
PM Sharif tells India: “every drop” of water is a red line
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister has warned India that any interference with the country’s water supply will be treated as a red line, using the unveiling of a war memorial in Islamabad to deliver a pointed warning to Delhi over the fate of a decades-old water-sharing treaty.
Afghan Taliban’s covert support for TTP fuels deadlier attacks on Pakistan, UN monitors find
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban has continued to support the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), fuelling a surge in the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, according to a new United Nations report — even as Kabul has taken tentative steps to curb the group’s activities.
No progress, says Iran, as Pakistan pushes to rescue collapsed US peace deal
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is intensifying efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to the negotiating table, warning that unnamed actors are working to derail a peace process that has already delivered a ceasefire and a framework agreement, only for both to collapse in the past month.
Pakistan says US and Iran are nearing Hormuz deal — but Trump, Tehran dig in over compensation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan believes the United States and Iran are edging towards an agreement capable of defusing the confrontation that has kept global energy markets on edge for months, even as Washington and Tehran continued on Tuesday to trade incompatible demands over compensation and control of the Strait of Hormuz.
PTI rift deepens over timing of Islamabad march for Imran Khan’s release
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief minister has insisted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s entire political leadership, along with its allied group, is united behind a long march on Islamabad scheduled for September 27, as he moved to shut down suggestions from within his own party that the date was the product of a backroom deal with the government.
Makkah defence pact ‘open to any country’ willing to honour its principles, says Dar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has said the newly signed defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara is open to any country in the region prepared to uphold its founding principles, as he moved to clarify the scope of an agreement struck at a moment of acute regional tension.
Muslim world hails trilateral defence pact as landmarks across Saudi Arabia lit up in celebration
ISLAMABAD: Landmarks across Saudi Arabia were lit up with the flags of Pakistan, Türkiye and the kingdom over the weekend, as reaction continued to pour in to a new trilateral defence pact binding the three nations to treat an attack on any one of them as an attack on all.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign mutual defence pact as Gulf reels from Iran conflict
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a landmark joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, binding together three of the Muslim world’s most powerful states as they seek to shore up their defences against a regional conflict that has sent missiles raining down on Gulf oil producers.