ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has said that Imran Khan’s vision has improved “remarkably” following a follow-up examination conducted inside Adiala jail, where the former prime minister remains incarcerated.
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Turkey offers to broker new Pakistan-Afghanistan ceasefire as border operation enters second week
ISLAMABAD: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to help re-establish a ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan, as security forces inflicted heavy losses on Afghan Taliban positions in a sustained cross-border campaign, officials said on Tuesday.
IHC to hear Imran Khan’s plea for private hospital treatment as bail granted in six other cases
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has ordered a hearing next week on a plea by the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to be transferred from Adiala prison to a private hospital for treatment of a serious eye condition, while simultaneously fixing the date for arguments in his main appeal against conviction in the high-profile Toshakhana corruption case.
US Marines open fire on protesters storming Karachi consulate in deadly clashes over Khamenei assassination – report
KARACHI: US Marines opened fire on demonstrators who breached the outer wall of the American consulate in Karachi on Sunday, two US officials told Reuters, in a rare use of lethal force at a diplomatic mission that risks sharply escalating tensions in Pakistan.
Pakistan to hold closed-door parliamentary briefing on Middle East crisis
ISLAMABAD: The government has summoned parliamentary leaders to an in-camera briefing on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating situation across the Middle East, as it attempts to build cross-party consensus on a response that balances sensitive diplomatic relationships and national security concerns.
Pakistan offers to host US-Iran talks as Dar condemns ‘sudden’ strikes on Tehran
ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, told the Senate on Tuesday that Islamabad stood ready to mediate directly between Washington and Tehran, even as he expressed deep concern over a US-Israeli military strike on Iran that came despite what he described as promising diplomatic progress.
Pakistan dismisses US-Israeli strike fears as ‘devoid of facts’
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani security official has dismissed as baseless any suggestion that Islamabad could become the next target of US-Israeli military action in the wake of fresh strikes on Iran, describing the speculation as “devoid of facts” and the work of “agents of chaos”, Dawn Newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan strikes Taliban drone depot and ammunition site in Afghanistan as cross-border offensive intensifies
ISLAMABAD: Security forces destroyed a drone storage facility and an ammunition depot operated by the Afghan Taliban in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, an official said on Monday, part of an escalating military campaign that has triggered the most serious clashes between the two countries in years.
Pakistan offers to mediate as it calls for de-escalation after assassination of Iran’s supreme leader
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to calm the crisis in the Middle East after US and Israeli strikes on Iran killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Monday.
Zardari warns India and Afghanistan of ‘humiliating defeat’ in address disrupted by opposition protests
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has issued a pointed warning to India and Afghanistan that any further aggression would meet with decisive force, telling potential adversaries to “prepare for another humiliating defeat” while insisting that Pakistan had so far revealed “only a fraction of our capabilities”.