ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Monday issued a sharply worded condemnation of a drone strike the previous day that sparked a fire near the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, describing the incident as a reckless assault on civilian nuclear infrastructure with potentially “catastrophic and irreversible consequences” for human life, the environment and regional stability.
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Karachi court grants police more time to question alleged drug queenpin amid her claims of torture and coercion
KARACHI: A Karachi court on Monday granted police four more days to question Anmol, the alleged drug supplier better known as Pinky, in a murder investigation, even as the suspect told a magistrate she was being pressured to implicate prominent figures and had endured repeated mistreatment in custody.
Polio campaign opens in Pakistan with deadly attacks on police escorts in restive tribal district
BAJAUR: Gunmen killed two police constables assigned to protect polio vaccination teams in Pakistan’s northwest on Monday, the opening day of a national immunization campaign aimed at stamping out the country’s persistent polio cases, officials said.
Pakistan lifts nationwide business-hour restrictions, exempting shops and restaurants from early closures until May 31
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday scrapped early closing times for shops, markets, shopping malls and restaurants across the country, granting a temporary exemption from energy-conservation rules imposed six weeks ago in response to a sharp rise in fuel prices triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Israel detains Pakistani national Saad Edhi, international activists after boarding Gaza-bound aid flotilla near Cyprus
ISLAMABAD: Israeli forces seized at least 10 vessels from a multinational humanitarian flotilla attempting to reach Gaza on Monday and detained dozens of international activists, including Saad Edhi, the son of Pakistan’s most prominent social worker and the grandson of the late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Hague court tightens limits on India’s occupied Kashmir dams in escalating Indus Waters Treaty dispute
ISLAMABAD: An international arbitration panel has delivered a fresh technical blow to India’s hydroelectric ambitions in occupied Kashmir, issuing a supplemental award that Pakistani officials say sharply restricts New Delhi’s ability to store and control water on the rivers the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty reserves largely for Pakistan.
Pakistan remains vital US partner in counterterrorism fight against ISIS-KA – Centcom chief
ISLAMABAD: The commander of US Central Command told senators this week that Pakistan is a critical counterterrorism partner and lies at the heart of efforts to contain the Islamic State-Khorasan group across South Asia.
Interior minister Naqvi presses Iranian leaders to revive US peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met on Sunday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Tehran, part of an intensifying Pakistani effort to salvage faltering negotiations between Washington and Tehran more than a month after a fragile ceasefire halted six weeks of open conflict.
Pakistan military warns India against ‘warmongering,’ says threats risk mutual nuclear catastrophe
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military on Sunday issued a blistering response to remarks by India’s army chief, describing them as “hubristic, jingoistic and myopic” and cautioning New Delhi against any attempt to push South Asia into another war whose consequences, it said, would prove “devastating” for the entire region and beyond.
Police kill 5 militants, including commander tied to deadly Bannu checkpoint bombing, in new reprisal operation
BANNU: Police forces have killed five militants in intelligence-driven raids across Bannu district in the country’s northwest on Saturday, including a commander and an accomplice directly linked to a suicide bombing that killed 15 officers at a police checkpoint the previous week, authorities said.