KARACHI: Attock Refinery Ltd., Pakistan’s oldest refiner, said it plans to build a new deep-conversion refinery with capacity of 50,000 barrels a day, provided it can secure steady supplies of crude from fields in the country’s north and the government backs the project.
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Arshad Nadeem fouls three times in a row and misses Asian Games javelin medal
ISLAMABAD: Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion, was left without a medal at the Asian Games on Monday after fouling his last three throws in a rain-soaked final, in which Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage won gold with an 88.55m effort on his sixth and final attempt.
Afghan war review turns to Pakistan, a neighbour still fighting its consequences
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most senior military officer has urged a visiting American commission reviewing the war in Afghanistan to take account of his country’s experience of the conflict, at a meeting held while Islamabad continues to deal with security challenges along its border with Afghanistan.
Man arrested over alleged gang rape of Azerbaijani woman in Lahore after medical report confirms assault
LAHORE: Police in Lahore have arrested one of three men suspected of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman, after a medical examination confirmed she had been sexually assaulted.
Three traffic police officers shot dead in north-west Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Three traffic police officers were shot dead in north-west Pakistan on Monday when gunmen opened fire on their van, the latest in a run of attacks on police and other security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“I curse this chair”: CM Afridi defies threats of governor’s rule
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has said he would give up his office rather than bend to Islamabad, as a bitter dispute over how to confront a surge in militant violence hardened into an open constitutional standoff.
IMF mission starts formal talks in Islamabad on next loan payout
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to begin formal negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on Monday over its next payout under a $7 billion bailout program, a review that will focus on a tax revenue shortfall and slippage on some reform commitments.
A week’s grace and nobody to grant it
The postponement of the PTI’s march to October 4 has been received in Islamabad as a small victory, and in Peshawar as a clever stratagem. It is neither. It is simply a pause in a dispute whose terms are being set elsewhere.
Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded
ISLAMABAD: The number of glacial lakes in Pakistan’s mountainous north that have thawed this summer has climbed from 40 to 105 in under two months, according to satellite data released by the country’s national space agency, in a finding that has sharpened warnings over the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding in communities living beneath them.
Pakistan rejects claims of sovereign guarantee for privatized PIA Boeing fleet
ISLAMABAD: The government pushed back against claims that it is arranging state-backed financing for Pakistan International Airlines’ purchase of Boeing Co. jets, with an adviser saying no sovereign guarantee or public loan has been offered for the newly privatized carrier’s fleet expansion.