The horses arrived first. The applause never did.
That is the image Pakistanis have been passing around since Saturday: two of the country’s senior bureaucrats, riding into an Independence Day parade in a carriage built for heads of state, to a crowd that would not clap.
KARACHI: Pakistan’s largest goods transport alliance called off a nine-day nationwide strike on Sunday, agreeing to a 40-day pause after the federal and Sindh governments offered concessions on fuel pricing, toll taxes and vehicle load limits that had brought cargo movement across the country to a standstill.
KARACHI: Pakistan’s fractious debate over redrawing its provincial map erupted again on Sunday, after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan announced it would lead a “grand national dialogue” on creating new provinces — a proposal that has already split the government’s own coalition and reignited historic tensions over the future of Sindh.
HUNZA: The body of Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi was laid to rest on Sunday in his home village of Aliabad, in the Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan, following funeral prayers attended by hundreds of mourners, more than a fortnight after he was killed in an avalanche on one of the world’s highest peaks.
QUETTA: Security forces killed seven terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan’s Kharan district on Sunday, according to state media, in the latest of a string of raids conducted across the province this month as the security situation there continues to deteriorate sharply.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is bracing for another bout of heavy monsoon weather, with the Meteorological Department forecasting rain, gusty winds and thundershowers across the upper and central parts of the country from August 17 to 21, alongside warnings of urban flooding and landslides in vulnerable districts.
QUETTA: Security forces killed ten suspected militants and wounded several more during a gun battle in the mountains of Balochistan on Saturday, in the latest of a string of operations against a group the state accuses India of sponsoring.
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami has announced a fresh round of sit-in protests outside government buildings in four major cities, as the Islamist party escalates its campaign against fuel levies and warns the demonstrations could tip into a broader movement against the government.
ISLAMABAD: Riyadh Air, the Saudi Arabian national carrier launched under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 economic program, began commercial service to Pakistan on Friday, landing its inaugural flight in Islamabad as the airline works toward a goal of serving more than 100 destinations by 2030.
KARACHI: A Karachi court on Saturday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of the business partner of murdered entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali, ordering him to join the ongoing investigation and restraining him from leaving the city while police continue their inquiry into one of the most closely watched cases the city has seen in years.
