ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened an in-camera briefing for parliamentary party leaders on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating security situation across Pakistan’s western frontiers and the wider Middle East, where US and Israeli attacks have killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered wider instability.
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US Marines open fire on protesters storming Karachi consulate in deadly clashes over Khamenei assassination – report
KARACHI: US Marines opened fire on demonstrators who breached the outer wall of the American consulate in Karachi on Sunday, two US officials told Reuters, in a rare use of lethal force at a diplomatic mission that risks sharply escalating tensions in Pakistan.
Pakistan to hold closed-door parliamentary briefing on Middle East crisis
ISLAMABAD: The government has summoned parliamentary leaders to an in-camera briefing on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating situation across the Middle East, as it attempts to build cross-party consensus on a response that balances sensitive diplomatic relationships and national security concerns.
Zardari warns India and Afghanistan of ‘humiliating defeat’ in address disrupted by opposition protests
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has issued a pointed warning to India and Afghanistan that any further aggression would meet with decisive force, telling potential adversaries to “prepare for another humiliating defeat” while insisting that Pakistan had so far revealed “only a fraction of our capabilities”.
Pakistan condemns assassination of Iran’s supreme leader as breach of international law
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has condemned the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader as a flagrant violation of international norms that have long shielded heads of state from targeted killing, as the country finds itself caught between grief at home, missile exchanges across the Middle East and active combat on its Afghan frontier.
PTA cautions public over social media posts amid Taliban border war and Middle East tensions
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator on Saturday cautioned citizens against sharing unverified, inflammatory or misleading content online, warning of possible legal action as the country’s military pressed a retaliatory campaign against the Afghan Taliban and regional tensions escalated with fresh attacks on Iran.
Top court returns Imran Khan hospital transfer application with objections
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday raised objections to an application seeking the transfer of former prime minister Imran Khan from jail to a hospital for treatment of an eye ailment.
IHC sets March 11 hearing on Imran Khan’s bid to suspend sentence in £190mln graft case
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday scheduled a March 11 hearing on petitions by former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, seeking suspension of their sentences in a major £190 million corruption case, as defence lawyers highlighted the former leader’s sudden eye ailment and what they described as inordinate delays in the proceedings.
Four policemen slain as militants target special squad in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen ambushed a returning police patrol in Pakistan’s Bajaur district on Wednesday evening, killing four officers and seriously wounding two others, authorities said.
UPDATED – Jailed ex-PM Khan receives second eye injection at PIMS, returns to Adiala as PTI alleges ‘clandestine’ night procedure
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken under heavy security to a government hospital in the early hours of Tuesday for a second anti-VEGF intravitreal injection to treat central retinal vein occlusion in his right eye, triggering fresh accusations from his party of government secrecy and lack of transparency.