PESHAWAR: The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), leading a march to demand the release of the jailed Imran Khan, has vowed not to allow another military operation in the province, deepening a confrontation with the establishment-backed government as it weighs its response.
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Pakistan test-fires longer-range version of Fatah-4 cruise missile
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has test-launched an extended version of its home-built Fatah-4 ground-launched cruise missile, the military said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of weapons tests this year.
Guterres praises Pakistan’s mediation effort, urges US and Iran to return to diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, has praised Pakistan’s “pivotal role” in mediating between the United States and Iran and told both sides from Islamabad to end the conflict, return to diplomacy and restore navigational rights under international law.
Pakistan confirms sixth polio case of the year in Khyber district
PESHAWAR: Pakistan has recorded its sixth case of polio this year, after a seven-year-old boy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district was found to be infected, the country’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) said on Monday.
UN chief Guterres to visit Pakistan to back Islamabad’s push for US-Iran peace
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres will arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday for a three-day visit that puts Islamabad’s role as the main broker between Washington and Tehran at the centre of his final months in office.
Eleven militants killed in Waziristan and Balochistan raids
PESHAWAR: Security forces have killed 11 militants in separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, sources said on Saturday, days after Islamabad bombed targets inside Afghanistan and accused the Taliban government in Kabul of sponsoring terrorism.
Pakistan prepares to bring home survivors and the dead after tanker siege ends in bloodshed
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working to bring home four seafarers freed from a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia, along with the bodies of three colleagues killed by their captors, as families in Karachi brace for a homecoming that will bring relief to some and a funeral to others.
Civil servants who missed dual-nationality disclosure deadline get seven days to comply
ISLAMABAD: The government has given civil servants who have not disclosed foreign or dual nationalities, their own or their families’, a final week to do so or face disciplinary proceedings.
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.
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.