ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit widened in September as a rebound in exports failed to keep pace with a larger rise in imports, leaving the shortfall for the first three months of the fiscal year more than $1.4 billion wider than a year earlier.
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Govt, PTI talks stretch into weekend with Khan’s party still set on Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party of jailed former premier Imran Khan ended their first day of talks on Friday without agreement, with the two sides due to meet again on Saturday afternoon ahead of the party’s planned march on Islamabad the following day.
Military warns of ‘decisive force’ against any repeat of May 9 violence days before Imran Khan’s party marches on Islamabad
Pakistan’s most senior army officers have warned that any attempt to stir unrest or recreate the violence of 9 May 2023 will be met with “decisive force”, days before the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan sets out on a march towards the capital.
Govt, PTI open talks to seek way out of crisis before march on capital
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz-led coalition government and the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan began talks in Islamabad on Friday, three days before a planned long march on the capital that has pushed Islamabad and the opposition-run province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) towards a constitutional confrontation.
Security forces kill seven TTP militants in North Waziristan raid
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed seven militants in a raid in North Waziristan, state media reported on Friday, the latest in a run of operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the country endures its worst spell of militant violence in more than a decade.
Pakistan backs Saudi Arabia after Houthi drone strike near Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has condemned a drone attack on a power distribution station that supplies electricity to the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, calling it a “grave provocation” and reaffirming its support for Saudi Arabia as fighting in Yemen intensifies.
IMF credits Pakistan on oil shock, presses for gas subsidy overhaul
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund has credited Pakistan with keeping fuel flowing without straining the budget through six months of conflict between the US and Iran, but the two sides remain at odds over how to deal with a Rs3.6 trillion gas-sector debt, according to local media reports.
Pakistan pledges to follow “applicable” Iran sanctions, but won’t say which ones
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has signalled a more cautious approach to the latest US sanctions on Iran, pledging to follow “all applicable sanctions regimes” but declining to say which restrictions it considers to apply.
PTA says it lacks power to bar under-16s from social media
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s telecoms regulator has told the Islamabad High Court that it has no legal authority to impose mandatory age verification or to stop children under 16 from using social media.
Daily fuel reset lifts petrol to Rs390.66, trims diesel
ISLAMABAD: The government raised the price of petrol by Rs3.26 a litre and cut high-speed diesel by Rs1.01 for Friday, the latest move under a daily pricing system that has swung pump rates by more than Rs100 a litre since the U.S.-Iran war began on Feb. 28.