LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has warned the jailed Imran Khan’s party that it faces a “once-and-for-all” solution if it presses ahead with a march on Islamabad next Sunday, as the government weighs imposing governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and police detain three of the former prime minister’s sisters.
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Punjab police detain two more sisters of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan ahead of protest march on capital
LAHORE: Two more sisters of Imran Khan were detained for 30 days on Monday, a day after a third was taken into custody, as authorities moved against the jailed former prime minister’s family in the run-up to a mass protest planned for 27 September.
Talks collapse, JI to press ahead with fuel-tax protest march in Islamabad
LAHORE: Talks between the government and the country’s largest Islamist party collapsed on Saturday, leaving the authorities facing a week of mass protest in and around the capital after Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) refused to call off a march against fuel taxes.
Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.
Pakistan sends interior minister to Tehran as Houthi strikes on Riyadh threaten to widen Gulf war
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister was due in Tehran on Sunday for what Iran called a purely bilateral visit, as Islamabad struggled to keep its role as go-between in the Iran-US war while being pulled ever closer to a new front in Yemen.
Taliban threaten “crushing response” if Pakistan strikes Afghanistan – but ask Saudi Arabia to help broker peace
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have warned Pakistan of a “crushing response” to any military action on Afghan territory, while at the same time appealing for Saudi Arabia to help resolve the bitter dispute between the two neighbours.
Pakistan warns Red Sea and Hormuz crises threaten global energy and food supplies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called on Yemen’s Houthi movement to halt attacks on merchant shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as the United Nations Security Council met for the second time in a week to discuss the growing threat to one of the world’s most important trade routes.
21-hour siege at Kohat police compound ends after eight IUMP militants killed
PESHAWAR: Security forces have ended a siege of a police compound in the north-western city of Kohat, killing eight militants after an assault that began with a suicide car bombing at a mosque and left at least 23 people dead.
Suicide bombers and gunmen attack Kohat police compound, killing at least 21
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mosque inside a police compound in north-west Pakistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 21 people, before gunmen tried to storm the complex and fought security forces for hours.
Pakistan’s tough talk for Saudi Arabia keeps hardening, testing an untested defence pact
KARACHI: Pakistan will defend Saudi Arabia “to any extent,” a senior military spokesman said on Thursday — the toughest yet in a run of statements from Islamabad that have hardened by the day as the kingdom faces its heaviest barrage of Houthi drone and missile strikes in the current hostilities.