ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party and the Islamist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl formalised an electoral alliance on Sunday for Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s July 27 legislative elections, with the two parties agreeing to field joint candidates in two constituencies as competition for the 53-seat assembly intensified across a politically volatile region.
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GB chief minister’s oath postponed as Bilawal heads to Iran for Khamenei funeral
GILGIT: The swearing-in of the newly elected Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister has been postponed after the head of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party left for Iran to attend funeral proceedings for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the party said on Sunday.
Muzaffarabad limps back to life as proscribed group fights to stay relevant ahead of AJK polls
MUZAFFARABAD: Leaders of a proscribed political alliance in Azad Kashmir are pressing supporters to boycott next month’s regional elections, with officials accusing them of stoking unrest to preserve their own relevance as a weeks-long general strike begins to unravel.
Pakistan orders mass arrest of undocumented Afghans from July 10, demands daily deportation tallies
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has ordered the immediate arrest of any Afghan national found in the country without a valid visa from July 10, in the most explicit enforcement directive yet issued under a deportation campaign that has already displaced more than a million people in the past year alone.
Pakistan eyes Iranian crude as US sanctions waiver opens supply window
LAHORE: Pakistan is weighing the purchase of discounted Iranian crude oil and gas following the easing of US sanctions on Tehran under a landmark ceasefire agreement brokered by Islamabad, Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik said on Sunday.
Arrested attacker says Karachi Rangers camp attack planned from Afghanistan, trained by militant group
KARACHI: An injured militant captured after a deadly assault on a Pakistan Rangers camp in Karachi has told interrogators that he and his accomplices were trained in Afghanistan and crossed into Pakistan under a logistics network organised by the banned Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group, security sources said on Sunday.
Pakistan strikes Afghan border targets, kills 29 militants after Karachi Rangers attack
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 29 militants in an intelligence-led ground operation and precision air strikes along the Afghan border overnight, the government said on Sunday, retaliating hours after gunmen attacked a paramilitary camp in Karachi and killed three soldiers.
Iran, US agree halt to attacks, Doha talks set for Tuesday amid Hormuz standoff
ISLAMABAD: Iran and the United States have agreed to halt military strikes against each other and will meet in Qatar on Tuesday for direct negotiations over control of the Strait of Hormuz, US media reported on Sunday, offering a fragile opening after one of the most dangerous weekends of a conflict that has shaken global energy markets and rattled shipping throughout the Gulf.
PEMRA suspends Geo News for 15 days after part of Muharram broadcast deemed offensive to Muslim viewers
Pakistan’s broadcast regulator on Saturday suspended the licence of Geo News for 15 days, taking the country’s most widely watched Urdu-language television channel off the air after it broadcast footage during a Muharram transmission that authorities said was liable to hurt the religious sentiments of viewers.
Three Rangers martyred as Taliban faction bomb Karachi paramilitary compound; Afghan suspect held
KARACHI: An explosive-laden vehicle driven into the gates of a Sindh Rangers compound in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and wounded four others on Saturday night, the military said, as a Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest militant strikes on a security installation in Pakistan’s commercial capital in years.