ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday inaugurated Pakistan’s largest data centre, along with the Sky47 AI cloud platform, in a ceremony in Islamabad that the premier called nothing short of “awe-inspiring.”
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Twelve soldiers among 15 dead as Taliban militants ram explosives-laden vehicle into Tank checkpost near Afghan border
PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, among them 12 soldiers, two police officers and a forestry official, were killed after militants stormed a joint security checkpost in northwestern Pakistan overnight, in an assault that has again exposed the scale of the militant threat facing the country’s western border regions.
Pakistan raises petrol 4.40 rupees to 331.52, diesel 3.62 to 378.66 in second straight hike
Pakistan raised gasoline and diesel prices for a second straight day on Thursday, deepening the burden on consumers already grappling with some of the highest fuel costs in the country’s history as the fallout from renewed fighting between Iran and the US sends crude prices surging.
Korean state utility presses PM Sharif on stalled $1 billion Pakistan hydropower project – report
ISLAMABAD: A South Korean state-owned power producer has taken its grievances over two long-delayed hydropower projects in Pakistan directly to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, warning that a $1 billion investment now risks being shelved after nearly a decade of preparatory work.
Army chief vows ‘decisive response’ to defeat foreign-backed militants in Balochistan
Pakistan’s army chief has vowed to press ahead with military operations against separatist and militant groups in Balochistan, declaring that “foreign-sponsored proxies” attempting to destabilise the restive southwestern province would be defeated through a “firm and decisive response” from the armed forces.
Gunmen kill judge and bodyguard in Balochistan ambush
QUETTA: A district and sessions judge and his security guard were shot dead in Balochistan province on Thursday, in an attack officials say was a deliberate act of retribution against the judiciary, as the restive southwestern region endures its bloodiest spell of militant violence in months.
Roads collapse and villages cut off as Pakistan’s monsoon rains intensify
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s second monsoon spell of the season is overwhelming drainage systems in Punjab provinces and severing road links across the mountainous north, with the national disaster authority reporting a rising death toll and officials in three provinces now on high alert.
Pakistan business confidence rebounds, but renewed Iran-US fighting clouds outlook
KARACHI: Business confidence in Pakistan strengthened in the second quarter, with companies reporting less-negative views of current conditions and a sharply more optimistic outlook for the year ahead, according to a survey by Gallup Pakistan released on Thursday.
Pakistan condemns Houthi tanker attacks and pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Red Sea crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, pledging his country’s full solidarity with Riyadh in a telephone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as fears grow that the widening Middle East conflict is drawing in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
Pakistan rejects Amnesty’s Kabul strike findings and hits out at EU over trade compliance report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued a double rebuke to international scrutiny of its conduct, rejecting outright an Amnesty International report into deadly air strikes in Kabul while separately voicing “disappointment” at a European Union assessment that found the country had regressed on several of its human rights and governance commitments.