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Ruling coalition partners clash over tax policy ahead of federal budget
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s two largest ruling parties clashed over taxation strategy on Sunday as they raced to iron out budget differences before Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presents the federal spending plan to parliament in less than 72 hours.
NEC meets to recast Rs4.715 trillion development budget amid IMF pressure, coalition tensions
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council convenes on Monday under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to overhaul a combined federal and provincial development program worth Rs4.715 trillion, with officials signalling the final numbers could shift substantially from what a subordinate planning body cleared just days ago — a reflection of the competing fiscal pressures bearing down on a government simultaneously managing an IMF bailout and an uneasy coalition.
Four policemen dead, dozens wounded as Kashmir protest movement spirals into bloodshed
RAWLAKOT: Four police officers were killed and more than 20 others wounded on Sunday in some of the worst violence to strike Azad Jammu and Kashmir in years, as clashes between security forces and supporters of a newly banned protest movement turned a regional political standoff into open bloodshed.
PPP claims victory in Gilgit-Baltistan as rivals cry foul over missing vote tallies
GILGIT: The Pakistan Peoples Party appeared on Sunday night to have won a commanding plurality in elections for the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly, with unofficial returns from across the remote Himalayan territory showing the party leading in at least 10 of the 24 directly contested seats — even as its own leaders joined rival parties in accusing election officials of withholding the paperwork that stands between a result and a verified one.
Security forces kill 27 militants in North Waziristan offensive as army avenges tribal elder’s murder
ISLAMABAD: The security forces have killed 27 militants during a series of intelligence-led operations in the restive North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the past 72 hours, the military said on Sunday, describing the offensive as both a counter-terrorism sweep and an act of retribution for the murder of a prominent tribal elder.
Bhutto-Zardari seeks urgent meeting with PM Sharif over Azad Kashmir unrest
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said he will seek an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over the deteriorating situation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, as federal authorities moved to suppress a popular protest movement days before a scheduled demonstration and less than three weeks before regional elections.
Gilgit-Baltistan goes to the polls for first time in six years as PPP cries foul over missing vote count forms
GILGIT: Polling for Gilgit-Baltistan’s legislative assembly concluded on Sunday after a day of largely uninterrupted voting across one of Pakistan’s most strategically significant and geographically forbidding territories — though the relative calm of the contest itself was punctured almost immediately as the Pakistan Peoples Party began alleging systematic attempts to withhold vote count documentation and manipulate the result.
AJK Supreme Court rules refugee assembly seats can only be removed by elected parliament — not by protest
MUZAFFARABAD: The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has delivered a pointed constitutional rebuke to a banned protest movement demanding the abolition of reserved seats for Kashmiri refugees, ruling that the twelve contested places in the region’s legislative assembly enjoy full constitutional protection and can be removed only through formal parliamentary amendment — not through street agitation or political pressure.
Pakistan delivers sealed message to Iran’s wounded supreme leader as Middle East war enters its 100th day
ISLAMABAD: A sealed brown envelope changed hands in Tehran on Sunday. In it, according to Iranian state media, was a written message from Pakistan’s prime minister addressed to Iran’s supreme leader — a man who has not been seen in public since he was wounded in the opening hours of a war that has now dragged on for one hundred days.