ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, is leading the country’s delegation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Council of Heads of Government meeting in Moscow, a gathering that will once again place Pakistani and Indian officials in the same room six months after their brief but deadly military clash beyond the Line of Control.
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Fourth AJK PM in four years as Haq ousted, Rathore elected
MUZAFFARABAD: Lawmakers in Azad Kashmir ousted Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq on Monday in a no-confidence vote that capped months of political maneuvering and street protests, installing Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore of the Pakistan Peoples Party as his successor in a swift and largely choreographed transition.
Current account returns to deficit on surging imports
KARACHI: The current account slipped back into deficit in October with a $112 million shortfall, reversing the previous month’s surplus, as imports jumped 13% from a year earlier and exports continued to weaken.
Jordan’s King Abdullah awarded Pakistan’s top civilian honour on official visit
ISLAMABAD: King Abdullah II of Jordan, arriving in Pakistan on a two-day official visit, on Sunday received the country’s highest civilian honour and oversaw a display of Pakistani military capabilities alongside Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, underscoring the deepening defence and diplomatic partnership between the two nations.
Pakistan says it ‘welcomes’ Iran effort to revive stalled Taliban talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said it welcomed Iran’s offer to mediate between Islamabad and the Taliban government in Kabul, signalling openness to a new diplomatic channel after the collapse of Turkey- and Qatar-brokered talks earlier this month and persistent cross-border terrorist attacks.
PPP set to topple AJK PM Haq in decisive no-trust vote
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party is poised to seize control of the government in Azad Kashmir on Monday, when the regional Legislative Assembly is expected to vote out Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq and install the party’s regional secretary general, Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore, in his place.
Afghanistan turns north in search of trade partners as Pakistan ties fray
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban government is urgently pushing Afghan merchants to redirect trade toward Central Asia’s oil-rich republics, seeking to break decades of reliance on Pakistan after the most serious armed clashes in years and a month-long border shutdown that cost traders hundreds of millions of dollars.
Pakistan delays NFC meeting again as growth forecast cut
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has again postponed the inaugural meeting of the newly constituted National Finance Commission (NFC), with a session previously planned for Nov. 18 now delayed indefinitely, as the government downgraded its economic growth forecast for the current fiscal year by up to 0.7 percentage points to 3.5%, Dawn newspaper reported on Monday.
Seven TTP militants killed in northwestern Pakistan after hours-long battle
ISLAMABAD: Seven militants from the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan were killed Saturday in a hours-long gun battle with police and counterterrorism forces who received critical support from local residents in a remote corner of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, officials said.
Diesel rises to Rs284.44/liter, petrol left unchanged
ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday left the retail price of gasoline unchanged but increased high-speed diesel by Rs6 per litre to Rs284.44 for the November 16-30 fortnight, a significantly milder adjustment than the jump of up to Rs9.60 projected earlier in the week.