ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, is leading the country’s delegation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Council of Heads of Government meeting in Moscow, a gathering that will once again place Pakistani and Indian officials in the same room six months after their brief but deadly military clash beyond the Line of Control.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah awarded Pakistan’s top civilian honour on official visit
ISLAMABAD: King Abdullah II of Jordan, arriving in Pakistan on a two-day official visit, on Sunday received the country’s highest civilian honour and oversaw a display of Pakistani military capabilities alongside Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, underscoring the deepening defence and diplomatic partnership between the two nations.
Pakistan says it ‘welcomes’ Iran effort to revive stalled Taliban talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said it welcomed Iran’s offer to mediate between Islamabad and the Taliban government in Kabul, signalling openness to a new diplomatic channel after the collapse of Turkey- and Qatar-brokered talks earlier this month and persistent cross-border terrorist attacks.
Seven TTP militants killed in northwestern Pakistan after hours-long battle
ISLAMABAD: Seven militants from the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan were killed Saturday in a hours-long gun battle with police and counterterrorism forces who received critical support from local residents in a remote corner of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, officials said.
Detentions of Afghans jump 11-fold in Pakistan in 2025: UN agencies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan arrested or detained more than 100,000 Afghan nationals in the first 10 months of 2025, the vast majority of them holders of Afghan Citizen Cards or undocumented migrants, as the country pressed ahead with a sweeping deportation drive, according to a United Nations refugee agency report.
Pakistan, Jordan leaders vow ‘zero-tolerance’ for forced Palestinian displacement from Gaza
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Saturday that they would oppose any forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, reiterating a joint position of “zero-tolerance” for such moves as diplomats search for a durable end to the war in the territory.
Pakistan arrests four TTP militants over Islamabad court suicide bombing
ISLAMABAD: Authorities said on Friday that security forces have arrested four members of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, including the commander of the cell responsible for this week’s suicide bombing at a judicial complex in the capital.
Pakistan deploys troops to guard Sri Lanka cricketers after capital bombing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has ringed the Sri Lankan cricket team with army and paramilitary troops and moved an entire Twenty20 tri-nation tournament to Rawalpindi after a suicide bombing in the capital on Tuesday killed 12 people and rattled a sport still haunted by the 2009 attack on the same visiting side.
Pakistan says suicide bomber in Islamabad attack came from Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD The interior minister told the Senate on Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed 12 people and wounded 35 in an attack on the capital’s judicial complex on Tuesday was “related to Afghanistan,” the clearest official accusation yet that the assault originated across the border.
Pakistan hails arbitration court ruling clarifying Indus treaty provisions
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed clarifications issued by an international arbitration court on key aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty, a longstanding agreement governing the sharing of river resources with India, amid heightened tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.