ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump met with Muslim leaders from the Middle East and beyond on Tuesday to unveil a plan to end Israel’s war in Gaza, hours after a combative UN General Assembly speech in which he rejected growing global support for Palestinian statehood as rewarding “horrible atrocities” by Hamas.
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Dozens killed in northwest Pakistan blast as accounts diverge over cause
PESHAWAR: Conflicting accounts emerged on Monday about a deadly explosion in Pakistan’s restive northwest that killed at least two dozen people, with police blaming a blast at a militant compound and local lawmakers suggesting an aerial strike that struck civilian homes.
PM Sharif set for first encounter with Trump since his White House return
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to join a select group of Muslim leaders in a meeting with President Trump next week on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, in what could be the first direct encounter between the two since Trump returned to the White House in January, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Sunday.
Pakistan says other countries express interest in defence pacts after landmark deal with Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Several countries have expressed interest in pursuing strategic defense agreements with Pakistan in the wake of its new mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said Friday.
Pakistan-Saudi defence pact could expand to wider Arab bloc – minister
ISLAMABAD: Other Arab nations could join a new mutual defence pact between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Islamabad’s defence minister said Thursday, adding that the “doors are not closed” a day after the landmark agreement was signed.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia sign defence pact pledging joint response to aggression
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a “Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement” on Wednesday, formalising a pledge that any aggression against one nation would be regarded as an assault on both, in a deepening of ties between the two Muslim states at a moment of escalating conflict across the Middle East.
PM Sharif proposes Arab-Islamic task force to counter Israeli aggression at emergency summit in Doha
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Monday for an Arab-Islamic task force to combat Israeli “aggression and expansionism,” as leaders from more than 50 nations convened under the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to craft a unified response to Israel’s airstrike on Qatar last week, an attack that killed five Hamas peace negotiators and a Qatari security officer and threatened fragile cease-fire talks in Gaza.
Sindh on alert as 700,000 cusecs of floodwater head toward Sukkur Barrage
KARACHI: A massive wall of floodwater, measuring between 650,000 and 700,000 cubic feet per second, is barreling toward the Sukkur Barrage on the Indus River, officials warned on Sunday, as Pakistan’s southern Sindh province hunkered down against the threat of further inundation.
PM Sharif tells Afghanistan to choose between Pakistan and militants after deadly cross-border attacks
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued a stark ultimatum to Afghanistan’s interim government on Saturday, demanding it choose between fostering ties with Pakistan or supporting the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as he visited the northwestern city of Bannu reeling from a deadly ambush that killed 12 soldiers this week.
PM Sharif seeks IMF relief on power bills as Pakistan reels from catastrophic floods
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the Finance Ministry to urgently negotiate a one-month electricity bill waiver with the International Monetary Fund for households battered by devastating floods that have killed hundreds, displaced millions, and ravaged crops across Punjab and Sindh.