PESHAWAR: Three traffic police officers were shot dead in north-west Pakistan on Monday when gunmen opened fire on their van, the latest in a run of attacks on police and other security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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“I curse this chair”: CM Afridi defies threats of governor’s rule
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has said he would give up his office rather than bend to Islamabad, as a bitter dispute over how to confront a surge in militant violence hardened into an open constitutional standoff.
IMF mission starts formal talks in Islamabad on next loan payout
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to begin formal negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on Monday over its next payout under a $7 billion bailout program, a review that will focus on a tax revenue shortfall and slippage on some reform commitments.
A week’s grace and nobody to grant it
The postponement of the PTI’s march to October 4 has been received in Islamabad as a small victory, and in Peshawar as a clever stratagem. It is neither. It is simply a pause in a dispute whose terms are being set elsewhere.
Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded
ISLAMABAD: The number of glacial lakes in Pakistan’s mountainous north that have thawed this summer has climbed from 40 to 105 in under two months, according to satellite data released by the country’s national space agency, in a finding that has sharpened warnings over the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding in communities living beneath them.
Pakistan rejects claims of sovereign guarantee for privatized PIA Boeing fleet
ISLAMABAD: The government pushed back against claims that it is arranging state-backed financing for Pakistan International Airlines’ purchase of Boeing Co. jets, with an adviser saying no sovereign guarantee or public loan has been offered for the newly privatized carrier’s fleet expansion.
Fifteen detained in Lahore inquiry into alleged gang-rape of Azerbaijani woman
LAHORE: Police have detained 15 people, including two women, as they pursue the men accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman in Lahore, in a case that has drawn comparisons to the abduction and assault of two foreign tourists in the same neighbourhood barely two months earlier.
Shanghai bloc to hold first coordination talks in Islamabad Sept. 28-30 since Pakistan took chair
ISLAMABAD: Senior officials from across the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation are gathering in Islamabad next week for the first substantial coordination talks since Pakistan took over leadership of the eight-nation bloc, in a meeting Pakistani officials have billed as the opening move in a two-year diplomatic programme that will culminate in a full leaders’ summit in the capital.
Pakistan’s new Chinese-built submarine fires first missile in test off Karachi
KARACHI: Pakistan’s navy has carried out the first live missile firing from its newly delivered Chinese-built submarine, a test the military says confirms the vessel’s combat readiness at a moment of heightened friction with India at sea.
Pakistan says more than 70 militants killed in four-day Balochistan offensive
QUETTA: Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that security forces had killed more than 71 militants across Balochistan province over the previous 96 hours, in a serious blow to terrorists backed by India and sheltered by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.