Pakistan raised fuel prices for a second straight day, pushing petrol to 392.76 rupees a liter as the government keeps passing through swings in global oil markets caused by the war between the US and Iran.
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Two unarmed civilians shot dead by Indian border guards near Kasur, Islamabad says
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday said Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel had shot dead two unarmed civilians near the international border in Punjab.
World Bank presses Pakistan to speed up tax overhaul under $20 billion plan
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank urged Pakistan on Friday to speed up tax and regulatory changes under their $20 billion reform partnership, pressing for harmonized sales taxes and overhauls of provincial agriculture and property levies.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to hold emergency defence talks in Riyadh over Houthi attacks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold an emergency meeting of the committee overseeing their joint defence pact in Riyadh “very soon”, deputy prime minister has said, as Houthi attacks on Saudi territory push the new alliance towards its first real test.
Lahore named world’s most polluted major city again, days after chief minister claims “less smog”
LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the most polluted major city in the world on Friday morning, as its air quality fell into the “unhealthy” category and Punjab’s government ordered emergency anti-smog operations across the city’s worst-hit districts.
Pakistan’s September trade gap widens to $3.56 billion on faster import growth
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit widened in September as a rebound in exports failed to keep pace with a larger rise in imports, leaving the shortfall for the first three months of the fiscal year more than $1.4 billion wider than a year earlier.
Govt, PTI talks stretch into weekend with Khan’s party still set on Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party of jailed former premier Imran Khan ended their first day of talks on Friday without agreement, with the two sides due to meet again on Saturday afternoon ahead of the party’s planned march on Islamabad the following day.
Military warns of ‘decisive force’ against any repeat of May 9 violence days before Imran Khan’s party marches on Islamabad
Pakistan’s most senior army officers have warned that any attempt to stir unrest or recreate the violence of 9 May 2023 will be met with “decisive force”, days before the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan sets out on a march towards the capital.
Govt, PTI open talks to seek way out of crisis before march on capital
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz-led coalition government and the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan began talks in Islamabad on Friday, three days before a planned long march on the capital that has pushed Islamabad and the opposition-run province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) towards a constitutional confrontation.
Security forces kill seven TTP militants in North Waziristan raid
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed seven militants in a raid in North Waziristan, state media reported on Friday, the latest in a run of operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the country endures its worst spell of militant violence in more than a decade.