By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved the trial of former prime minister Imran Khan in jail over allegations that he received land worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a property developer through a charity trust run by his third wife, a spiritual healer.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s acting commerce minister met with Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad on Tuesday to discuss trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland.
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ISLAMABAD: Asad Umar, a former planning minister and a senior leader of the opposition Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, announced on Saturday that he was quitting politics and leaving the party, citing policy differences over its confrontational stance toward state institutions.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker prime minister on Wednesday accused Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban’s interim government of not only failing to act against militants who launch attacks from its territory but also of helping them in some cases, in a rare public display of frustration that could further strain relations between the neighbors.
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ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Wednesday raised the concerns of his party over the pre-poll environment in the country, saying that the caretaker government should ensure a level playing field for all political parties and protect the fundamental rights of the citizens in the run-up to the general elections, scheduled in February.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Four soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed on Monday in a shoot-out with militants near the Afghan border, the military said, as a wave of attacks on security forces continued across the country.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing all nine assailants who tried to storm the facility in the early hours of the day.
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ISLAMABAD: The military said on Saturday that it had foiled a terrorist attack on a training air base of the Pakistan Air Force, killing three assailants and cornering three others.
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ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people were killed, mostly soldiers, in three separate attacks on Friday in the western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which border Afghanistan, officials said.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court intervenes to end election impasse, sets Feb. 8 as polling date. Ex-PM Sharif back in the fray after four years in exile, while jailed Khan remains sidelined.
