ISLAMABAD: The federal government is “seriously considering” declaring an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a senior minister has said, escalating a confrontation with the opposition-run province days before Imran Khan’s party marches on the capital.
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“I curse this chair”: CM Afridi defies threats of governor’s rule
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has said he would give up his office rather than bend to Islamabad, as a bitter dispute over how to confront a surge in militant violence hardened into an open constitutional standoff.
Pakistan says more than 70 militants killed in four-day Balochistan offensive
QUETTA: Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that security forces had killed more than 71 militants across Balochistan province over the previous 96 hours, in a serious blow to terrorists backed by India and sheltered by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey vow to fast-track military cooperation after urgent Riyadh talks
ISLAMABAD: The military chiefs of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have agreed to move without delay to convert their recently signed defence pact into concrete military cooperation, following urgent talks in Riyadh prompted by a sustained Houthi bombing campaign against the kingdom.
PTI blinks first: Imran Khan’s party retreats from Islamabad showdown, delays long march to October 4
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s party called off its long-threatened march on Islamabad on Friday, postponing by more than a week a protest that had triggered one of the most extensive security lockdowns the Pakistani capital has seen in years.
PM Sharif meets Iran’s president in New York to save collapsed peace deal
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in New York on Thursday, resuming a diplomatic effort that has become one of the few remaining threads connecting Washington and Tehran after months of war, air strikes and a naval blockade that shows no sign of lifting.
PM Sharif to meet Iran’s President Pezeshkian in New York push for US talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s attempts to broker a path back to talks between Washington and Tehran gathered momentum on Wednesday, with diplomatic sources indicating that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif could meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as soon as Thursday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Pakistan deploys Rangers across four Punjab districts ahead of Imran Khan supporters’ march
LAHORE: The Punjab government has asked Islamabad to deploy paramilitary Rangers across four districts in the province, as Pakistan’s security establishment braces for a mass opposition march on the capital that officials fear could draw as many as two million people onto the streets.
JI halts Islamabad fuel march after PM Sharif’s personal appeal, but warns patience is running out
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif has persuaded one of the country’s most disciplined religious political parties to pause a march on the capital, but only after conceding, in a phone call placed from New York, that his government’s fuel relief package has not gone far enough to satisfy protesters angered by months of rising petrol and diesel prices.
Islamabad seals itself behind 1,000 containers to stop Imran Khan’s party marching on the capital
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is hurtling towards one of its tensest political confrontations in years, with the government erecting a virtual fortress around Islamabad