SLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday doubled down on its commitment to uphold the fragile ceasefire with India but warned that any aggression would be met with full resolve.
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Pakistan says 11 soldiers, 40 civilians martyred in week of clashes with India
ISLAMABAD: The military said on Tuesday that 11 soldiers and at least 40 civilians were martyred during a week of intense hostilities with India, as a US-brokered ceasefire struggled to contain the deadliest military escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals in nearly a decade.
Aurangzeb says India military standoff has limited fiscal impact; IMF tranche due today
KARACHI: Pakistan will receive a $1 billion loan instalment from the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said, part of a $7 billion bailout to stabilise the crisis-hit economy.
Trump says trade leverage helped secure India-Pakistan ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration used trade leverage to broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, halting what he claimed could have escalated into a nuclear war.
Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos against India ends successfully, military says
ISLAMABAD: Military declared on Monday the successful conclusion of Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos, a counter-offensive following weeks of escalated hostilities with arch-rival India that saw cross-border strikes, aerial dogfights, and unprecedented cyber warfare.
Stocks post record 9pc gain on Trump truce, IMF tranche
By Staff Reporter KARACHI: Stock surged 9 percent on Monday, its biggest-ever single-day gain, as a ceasefire with India brokered by US President Donald Trump
India, not us, sought ceasefire, military says
ISLAMABAD The military rejected claims that it sought a ceasefire during last week’s fierce clashes with India, the deadliest in decades between the two nuclear-armed rivals, asserting that it was New Delhi who requested a halt to the fighting after launching missile strikes into Pakistani territory.
Trump offers to mediate Kashmir dispute as fragile ceasefire holds after deadly clashes
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump offered on Sunday to mediate the decades-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, coupling his proposal with a promise to “substantially” increase trade with both nuclear-armed nations as a tenuous ceasefire took hold after a week of missiles, drones and air strikes that killed at least 66 people.
Balance restored
A US-brokered ceasefire has paused the latest clash between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals whose rivalry nearly spiraled into disaster. Yet this tenuous truce reveals a seismic shift: Pakistan, long outmatched by India’s military might, not only stood firm but gained a strategic edge, upending South Asia’s power dynamics.
Pakistan to observe ‘Youm-e-Tashakkur’ for military’s victory over India
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday Pakistan had agreed to a ceasefire with India to “take a step toward regional peace” and praised the military for a “decisive response” to Indian aggression.