ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday reaffirmed Pakistan’s backing for Iran’s right to pursue nuclear power for peaceful purposes, as the two nations signed a raft of agreements aimed at lifting bilateral trade to $10 billion.
ISLAMABAD: The sons of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan have applied for special identity cards and visas to visit their father in jail, thrusting a personal mission into the heart of an escalating political storm.
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court in Quetta on Saturday extended the detention of Dr. Mahrang Baloch, a prominent Baloch activist and leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), along with several colleagues, by 20 days, intensifying accusations of judicial overreach under state pressure.
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan, the jailed founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has instructed the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Ali Amin Gandapur, to prevent any further military operations in the province and its tribal areas.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has placed an order for 200,000 metric tonnes of sugar from the international market to stabilize domestic prices and ease a deepening crisis fueled by shortages and soaring costs, government said on Saturday.
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur convened the first in a series of regional jirgas on Saturday, aiming to chart a path toward restoring law and order in a province battered by a surge in terrorist attacks.
ISLAMABAD: Five children were killed and 12 others injured in a tragic incident on Saturday when a mortar shell they were playing with exploded in a village in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said.
ISLAMABAD: Rescue teams in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region have pulled several vehicles from flood wreckage, but efforts to find missing persons remain unsuccessful, the government said on Saturday, as the area reels from devastating rains and landslides.
ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Pakistan on Saturday for a two-day state visit aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between the two neighboring countries, state media said.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army formally introduced Chinese-made Z-10ME attack helicopters into its aviation fleet Friday, a step military officials call central to its modernization efforts.
