LAHORE: Two more sisters of Imran Khan were detained for 30 days on Monday, a day after a third was taken into custody, as authorities moved against the jailed former prime minister’s family in the run-up to a mass protest planned for 27 September.
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Pakistan sends interior minister to Tehran as Houthi strikes on Riyadh threaten to widen Gulf war
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister was due in Tehran on Sunday for what Iran called a purely bilateral visit, as Islamabad struggled to keep its role as go-between in the Iran-US war while being pulled ever closer to a new front in Yemen.
Taliban threaten “crushing response” if Pakistan strikes Afghanistan – but ask Saudi Arabia to help broker peace
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have warned Pakistan of a “crushing response” to any military action on Afghan territory, while at the same time appealing for Saudi Arabia to help resolve the bitter dispute between the two neighbours.
Pakistan’s tough talk for Saudi Arabia keeps hardening, testing an untested defence pact
KARACHI: Pakistan will defend Saudi Arabia “to any extent,” a senior military spokesman said on Thursday — the toughest yet in a run of statements from Islamabad that have hardened by the day as the kingdom faces its heaviest barrage of Houthi drone and missile strikes in the current hostilities.
Pakistan says troops deployed in Saudi Arabia under 2025 defence pact, stays vague on Houthi response
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday that it has deployed forces inside Saudi Arabia under a bilateral defence treaty signed a year ago, and said it would honour both that pact and a new three-way alliance with Riyadh and Ankara “in intent and spirit” — but pointedly refused to spell out what would trigger Pakistani troops going into action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Pakistan’s military says Saudi-Turkiye defence pact has ‘no regional aspirations’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has moved to reassure allies and rivals alike that its new defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye carries no hidden ambitions, insisting the trilateral alliance exists purely to deter aggression rather than to project power across the region.
PIMS fire: report blames ‘systemic failure’ as electrical fault named likely cause of 14 newborn deaths
ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry into the fire that killed 14 newborn babies at a hospital in Islamabad has concluded that the disaster was the product of “systemic and institutional failure”, with a localised electrical fault the most probable trigger for a blaze that overwhelmed a nursery in a matter of minutes.
IHC bars use of state machinery ahead of PTI’s Sept 27 protests
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court has ordered the country’s four provincial governments to keep public resources and government machinery out of a mass protest planned for later this month by the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
PTI, JI close ranks as govt bans public gatherings ahead of twin marches on Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Two major opposition forces moved into open alignment on Sunday, with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf declaring its support for Jamaat-e-Islami’s month-long campaign against a fuel levy, as authorities in Islamabad and Punjab responded to the prospect of simultaneous mass marches on the capital with a sweeping security clampdown.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah addressing a presser in this undated photo courtesy of APP.
Pakistan’s new-provinces debate escalates as coalition tensions simmer
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fragile ruling coalition sought to project unity at the weekend even as a fractious debate over redrawing the country’s provincial map threatened to expose deepening rifts between its two main partners.