By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s executive board approved $1.692 billion in financing for Pakistan to support five projects for people living in flood-affected areas of southern Sindh province, the lender said in a statement on Tuesday.
Politics
PM Sharif-led coalition moves no-confidence motion to seek Punjab chief minister’s ouster
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling coalition moved a no-confidence motion on Monday, seeking the ouster of Pervez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab province, days after the former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced to dissolve provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistan’s 20 million flood victims need urgent humanitarian assistance
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s climate change minister on Monday said the fate of the country’s 20 million flood-affected people was still dependent on humanitarian aid but the wealthy nations who bear most responsibility for causing climate change have yet to deliver all the funds they have promised, let alone enough funds to cover the damage done.
One killed as Taliban’s siege of police station in northwest Pakistan continues
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants have killed at least one security official after they overnight seized a counter-terrorism police station in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, demanding a safe passage in exchange for the release of several hostages, officials said on Monday.
Taliban seize police station in northwest Pakistan, take several hostages
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Taliban on Sunday seized a counter-terrorism centre in Bannu district of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and took several people, including security officials, hostage to negotiate with government a safe passage to neighboring Afghanistan, officials said.
Imran Khan to dissolve two provincial assemblies on Dec 23
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said his party would dissolve two provincial assemblies on December 23 to force the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s coalition government for early elections.
The strange case of Punjab’s indissoluble assembly
By Ahmer Kureishi
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been threatening to dissolve the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assemblies for quite a while now. In particular, living a charmed life under this dangling Damocles’ sword has been the Punjab assembly and the government of Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, a key ally of Khan.
Pakistan summons Afghan Chargé d’Affaires in protest over border clashes
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign office has summoned Afghanistan’s Chargé d’Affaires on Friday to issue a ‘strong condemnation’ of the recent border clashes at Chaman-Spin Boldak area that both sides blame on each other.
Pakistan, Barrick ink final deal on Reko Diq project
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Canada-based mining firm Barrick Gold Corporation said on Thursday it had signed agreements with Pakistan’s provincial and federal governments to complete the reconstitution of the Reko Diq project after the Supreme Court endorsed a settlement to resume mining at the world’s largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits.
One killed in fresh cross-border clashes between Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Taliban
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least one person was killed and 16 others wounded on Thursday as fresh clashes broke out between Pakistani and Afghan forces in less than a week at Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing in Baluchistan, officials said.