ISLAMABAD: Iran has thanked Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership for its efforts to secure regional peace, as Islamabad’s interior minister arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks at one of the most precarious moments in the seven-month war between Iran and the United States.
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Pakistan strikes across the Afghan border after police compound assault – report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has carried out airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three, in a move that threatens to reignite conflict between the neighbours after nearly three months of relative calm, Reuters reported on Monday.
FM Dar goes to New York with a fading peace deal in hand
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has arrived in New York to press for an end to the US-Iran war at the United Nations, as world leaders gather for a General Assembly overshadowed by a conflict now in its eighth month.
Pakistan warns Imran Khan’s party of a ‘once-and-for-all’ response to planned capital march
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.
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.
Two young Army officers among six soldiers martyred in Hangu firefight as militant violence grips northwest Pakistan
Two Army officers, a captain of 23 and a lieutenant of 22, were martyred on Sunday leading their troops into a firefight with militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, part of a battle that left six security personnel and eight insurgents dead, the military said.
Jamaat-i-Islami begins march on Pakistan’s capital over fuel levy
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, the leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, boarded a train at Cantonment Station on Sunday bound for Islamabad, opening a march that he warned could grow from a protest over fuel taxes into an effort to bring down the government.
Pakistan seeks bids in first 400-megawatt power wheeling auction
Pakistan said it’s exiting the business of buying electricity, launching a competitive market that will let large industrial users purchase power directly from producers in a break from a state-run system that has drawn years of criticism over its contracts with private generators.
Pakistan puts Rs120 billion daily price tag on unrest before Imran Khan’s party takes to streets
Pakistan’s finance minister warned that a wave of planned protests could cost the economy about 120 billion rupees a day, as the government tries to head off marches on the capital by two opposition groups and a farmers’ alliance.
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.