ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cut retail petrol and diesel prices for a second consecutive day, as Saudi Arabia’s rerouting of crude shipments through the Strait of Hormuz helped stabilize a global oil market rattled by months of conflict in the Middle East.
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Pakistan’s top court rules dowry payments are a wife’s unconditional legal right, not a bargaining chip
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ruled that the Islamic dower a husband owes his wife under her marriage contract is a mandatory legal entitlement rather than a payment he can attach conditions to, in a judgment that also orders an overhaul of how the country’s marriage registrars record and enforce such payments.
Doctor who examined murdered businessman’s body barred from making further statement to inquiry
KARACHI: A high court judge has refused to let the doctor who carried out the first, disputed autopsy on murdered businessman Mir Raza Ali make a further statement to the judicial inquiry investigating his death, accusing him of trying to “throw mud” at a colleague and the region’s chief minister.
FM Dar goes to New York with a fading peace deal in hand
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has arrived in New York to press for an end to the US-Iran war at the United Nations, as world leaders gather for a General Assembly overshadowed by a conflict now in its eighth month.
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.
Talks collapse, JI to press ahead with fuel-tax protest march in Islamabad
LAHORE: Talks between the government and the country’s largest Islamist party collapsed on Saturday, leaving the authorities facing a week of mass protest in and around the capital after Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) refused to call off a march against fuel taxes.
Lambeth Palace rescinds interfaith honour to cleric Tahir Ashrafi who offered bin Laden the title “Sword of God”
ISLAMABAD: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s office on Thursday withdrew an interfaith award it had presented to a prominent Pakistani cleric six days earlier, after remarks he made about Osama bin Laden in 2007 resurfaced and drew condemnation on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Punjab chief minister defends use of state jet for daughter’s graduation
MULTAN: Maryam Nawaz, the chief minister of Punjab province, has launched a robust defence of her use of a provincial government aircraft to attend her daughter’s graduation ceremony in London, telling critics she “does not owe” them an explanation while simultaneously producing what she described as a receipt for the trip on her mobile phone.
Pakistan Hockey Federation refuses to play in India, seeks neutral venue for Asian Champions Trophy
Pakistan has formally asked hockey’s Asian governing body to strip India of next month’s Men’s Asian Champions Trophy or relocate all of Pakistan’s matches to neutral territory, deepening the sporting fallout from the countries’ fraught relationship.
Australia’s cricket greats break silence to demand “basic humanity” for jailed Imran Khan
KARACHI: Seven former Australia cricket captains have written directly to foreign minister Penny Wong urging her to press Pakistan’s government over the treatment of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in an unusually direct intervention by some of the sport’s most decorated figures into the political fate of one of their own.