ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised the retail price of petrol and cut the price of diesel for Tuesday, even as global crude dropped to its lowest in almost two weeks on hopes for diplomacy in the U.S.-Iran war.
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EU, Pakistan sign €65 million in grants to draw investment, expand rural power
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the European Union signed three grant agreements worth €65 million ($74.6 million) on Monday, funding programs meant to attract foreign investment, bring renewable energy to off-grid communities and improve access to justice.
Pakistan strikes militant camps in Afghanistan, killing 28, officials say
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out air strikes on suspected militant camps along the Afghan border, killing 28 terrorists, days after a suicide bombing and gun assault on a police compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa left more than 20 people dead.
Three Turkish, seven local firms vie to buy Islamabad power utility
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan drew 10 expressions of interest for Islamabad Electric Supply Co., the third of three state-owned power distributors to complete a first bidding round in a privatisation program the government is pursuing under International Monetary Fund oversight.
Naqvi returns to Tehran in new push to revive peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Iran has thanked Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership for its efforts to secure regional peace, as Islamabad’s interior minister arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks at one of the most precarious moments in the seven-month war between Iran and the United States.
Pakistan strikes across the Afghan border after police compound assault – report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three, in a move that threatens to reignite conflict between the neighbours after nearly three months of relative calm, Reuters reported on Monday.
FM Dar goes to New York with a fading peace deal in hand
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has arrived in New York to press for an end to the US-Iran war at the United Nations, as world leaders gather for a General Assembly overshadowed by a conflict now in its eighth month.
Pakistan warns Imran Khan’s party of a ‘once-and-for-all’ response to planned capital march
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has warned the jailed Imran Khan’s party that it faces a “once-and-for-all” solution if it presses ahead with a march on Islamabad next Sunday, as the government weighs imposing governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and police detain three of the former prime minister’s sisters.
Punjab police detain two more sisters of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan ahead of protest march on capital
LAHORE: Two more sisters of Imran Khan were detained for 30 days on Monday, a day after a third was taken into custody, as authorities moved against the jailed former prime minister’s family in the run-up to a mass protest planned for 27 September.
Two young Army officers among six soldiers martyred in Hangu firefight as militant violence grips northwest Pakistan
Two Army officers, a captain of 23 and a lieutenant of 22, were martyred on Sunday leading their troops into a firefight with militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, part of a battle that left six security personnel and eight insurgents dead, the military said.