ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected claims by the Afghan Taliban that its forces had captured a military outpost and killed 14 soldiers, branding the assertions as fabricated propaganda designed to mislead the Afghan public.
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Seven policemen martyred in IED blast as forces kill six militants in same district
LAKKI MARWAT: Terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device under a police patrol vehicle on Friday in the volatile Bettani subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven officers including a station house officer in the latest blow to security forces struggling to contain a surge in militant violence along the Afghan border.
PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi sworn in as Sindh governor after abrupt ouster of MQM-P ally
KARACHI: Nehal Hashmi, a longtime stalwart of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, took the oath of office on Friday as the new governor of Sindh, capping a rapid and unexpected appointment that has strained relations within Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition.
IHC orders medical board to evaluate imprisoned Imran Khan’s eye treatment, rejects immediate hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday directed authorities to form a medical board to evaluate whether jailed former prime minister Imran Khan should receive treatment outside prison for a serious eye ailment, stopping short of ordering his transfer to a private facility as sought by his legal team.
Islamabad High Court fines anti-corruption NAB for delays in Imran Khan graft appeal
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday imposed a 100,000-rupee fine on the National Accountability Bureau, sharply rebuking the country’s premier anti-corruption agency for what the bench described as “delaying tactics” in the long-running £190 million Al-Qadir Trust corruption case against former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi.
Schools shutter, ministers skip salaries and courts go virtual: Pakistan’s nationwide push to weather the fuel crunch
ISLAMABAD: The provincial Sindh government and judiciary moved swiftly on Tuesday to slash fuel consumption and government spending, closing schools for spring break, ordering four-day workweeks and cutting official perks as the country braces for disruptions from the widening Middle East conflict.
Pakistan Navy begins ‘Operation Muhafiz-ul-Bahr’ to shield energy shipments from Middle East turmoil
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Navy has initiated a new maritime security operation to safeguard the country’s critical energy imports and commercial shipping amid escalating disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, the military said Monday as the widening US-Israeli conflict with Iran sent global oil prices surging more than 25 percent.
Pakistani fisherman slain by fallout of Israeli projectile in Iranian waters; another dies in Dubai amid escalating conflict
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani fisherman was killed on Saturday when debris from an Israeli projectile, intercepted by Iranian air defences, struck his boat in Iranian waters, officials said on Sunday, the latest sign that the United States-Israel war on Iran is claiming civilian lives far beyond the battlefield.
Islamabad court sentences Bahria Town executive, ex-army colonel to 10 years in money-laundering case
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court on Saturday convicted a retired army colonel who served as a top executive at Bahria Town, one of the country’s largest property developers, of laundering approximately Rs 1.6 billion, sentencing him to 10 years in prison and ordering the confiscation of assets obtained through the crime.
One killed and 19 injured in checkpoint blast in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR: At least one person has been killed and 19 others injured, including two security personnel, in a powerful explosion near a checkpoint in Pakistan’s North Waziristan district.