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.
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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 revives austerity drive, halves official fuel use, bans foreign trips as oil shock deepens
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ordered a 50% cut in fuel allocations for government vehicles and imposed a three-month freeze on official foreign travel, reviving an emergency austerity regime it abandoned less than three months ago as renewed fighting in the Middle East disrupts the shipping lanes that carry most of the country’s imported energy.
Attack near Islam’s holiest site tests new Saudi defence pact — and its limits
ISLAMABAD: Saudi air defences shot down a drone on Tuesday evening as it approached the restricted airspace over Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the site Muslims worldwide face in prayer five times daily, in what Saudi officials called an attempted attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the holiest city in Islam.
Pakistan calls for return to June accord as Hormuz all but shuts and Houthis tighten Red Sea grip
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has again pressed the United States and Iran to return to a fragile ceasefire framework it helped broker in June, as the conflict between Washington and Tehran flares anew and threatens to draw in Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure and the wider shipping routes of the Middle East.
Pakistan weighs return to austerity as Mideast turmoil pressures fuel costs
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering reinstating austerity measures first imposed in March, as renewed conflict in the Middle East threatens to strain public finances already stretched by a new fuel subsidy program.
Sharif pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes, pipeline attack rattle region
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif telephoned Saudi Arabia’s crown prince on Sunday to condemn a string of attacks that battered the kingdom’s energy sector over the preceding week, as Riyadh grappled with both a missile and drone barrage from Yemen’s Houthi rebels and a still-unclaimed drone strike on one of its most important oil pipelines.
Pakistan condemns drone strikes on Saudi pipeline as Middle East oil war widens
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday delivered a pointed condemnation of the drone strikes that tore through Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline this week, casting the attacks as a breach of international law and pledging renewed solidarity with a kingdom now facing simultaneous threats to its two principal export routes.
PTI and JUI-F agree to push for national conference amid growing dispute over new provinces
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties agreed on Friday to push for an all-parties conference to address the creation of new provinces, along with law and order and the state of the economy, following a meeting between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leaders in Islamabad.
Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Saudi attacks escalate, testing new defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has delivered a pointed warning to Iran to restrain its Houthi allies in Yemen, after a surge of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia left dozens wounded and threatened to pull the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance into its first real test.