By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Four soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed on Monday in a shoot-out with militants near the Afghan border, the military said, as a wave of attacks on security forces continued across the country.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing all nine assailants who tried to storm the facility in the early hours of the day.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing three assailants and cornering three others.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began the first review of a $3 billion bailout package on Thursday, with both sides expressing early satisfaction over the country’s progress in meeting the fiscal and monetary targets set by the lender.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court intervenes to end election impasse, sets Feb. 8 as polling date. Ex-PM Sharif back in the fray after four years in exile, while jailed Khan remains sidelined.
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KARACHI: Shell Petroleum Company Limited (SPCo), the parent company of Shell Pakistan Limited (SPL), has agreed to sell its domestic operations to Saudi Arabia’s Wafi Energy LLC, a fuel retailer, for an undisclosed amount, the companies said on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began a nationwide crackdown on Wednesday against thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly Afghans, who failed to leave the country by a government-imposed deadline that expired at midnight on Tuesday.
Gas prices soar in Pakistan as the government complies with IMF’s condition for reducing circular debt. The move will impact millions of people and businesses across the country, especially the non-protected domestic consumers who will face a 173 percent increase.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan’s caretaker government on Thursday urged millions of households to switch to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative to pipe gas, which it said would be scarce and expensive in the next two years.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday approved a steep hike in natural gas prices and fixed monthly charges for consumers, as it faces pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce subsidies and reverse the mounting circular debt in the energy sector.
