KARACHI: Pakistan’s Lucky Motor Corp. is counting on record fuel prices and widespread rooftop solar adoption to accelerate demand for electric vehicles, as the automaker begins rolling out models from China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group and targets local assembly by the end of 2026.
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PM Sharif to visit China this weekend, with US-Iran tensions on agenda
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to China from May 23 to 26 for an official visit that will mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and offer an opportunity to deepen their long-standing “all-weather strategic partnership,” the Foreign Office said on Friday.
Karachi court sends alleged drug queenpin Anmol ‘Pinky’ to jail on 14-day judicial remand in narcotics and murder cases
KARACHI: A local court on Friday ordered alleged drug queenpin Anmol, better known as Pinky, to be held in judicial custody for 14 days as she faces more than a dozen criminal cases, including narcotics trafficking, illegal weapons possession and murder.
Field Marshal Munir heads to Tehran in final push to end US-Iran war
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military commander flew to Tehran on Friday in what officials and mediators described as a final push to secure a framework agreement that would formally end the war between the United States and Iran and open a 30-day window for negotiations on a more sweeping accord, including a resolution of the Iranian nuclear standoff.
With war and diplomacy both on the table, Pakistan races to bridge US-Iran divide
ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed cautious optimism on Thursday that Pakistani mediators could break the deadlock in negotiations to end the US-Iran war, as Pakistan’s powerful army chief prepared to travel to Tehran for high-level consultations and President Trump warned that the talks were teetering on the edge of collapse.
SBP reserves rise $1.214 billion to $17.081 billion on IMF inflows, Panda bond sale
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan’s foreign-exchange reserves increased by $1.214 billion in the week ended May 15, reaching $17.081 billion, the central bank said on Thursday.
Two schoolboys killed in drone strike in Bajaur
BAJAUR: Two schoolboys were killed Thursday when a quadcopter drone struck a hilly area of Bajaur district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local residents and officials said.
PTI warns of street protests after fresh denial of access to Imran Khan in jail
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were turned away from Adiala jail in Rawalpindi for the second straight day on Thursday, after prison officials once again refused to let them meet party founder Imran Khan.
Israel deports all foreign activists from Gaza-bound flotilla after global condemnation of their treatment in custody
ISLAMABAD: Israel deported all the foreign activists it seized from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on Thursday, hours after an international outcry over images of the detainees kneeling bound and hooded on the ground and reports of rough treatment in custody.
Pakistan pledges ‘highest-level’ security for Chinese workers as leaders celebrate 75 years of ironclad friendship
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday pledged to provide Chinese nationals in Pakistan with security equivalent to that afforded the country’s own president and prime minister, as Islamabad and Beijing marked the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations with ceremonies that blended celebration and pointed assurances amid persistent militant threats.