ISLAMABAD: Eleven security personnel were martyred when militants rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a checkpoint in the northwestern district of Bajaur, the military said on Tuesday, in the latest attack to hit the volatile region bordering Afghanistan.
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Pakistan cuts factory power prices by Rs4.04 per unit
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday formally notified an average reduction of Rs4.04 per unit in electricity tariffs for all industrial consumers, effective from Feb. 11, while directing the power regulator to restore contractual rights for existing net-metered solar users until the end of their seven-year agreements.
Govt assures top court on Imran Khan’s medical exam, prison facilities
ISLAMABAD: The government assured the Supreme Court on Monday that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan had been permitted to speak to his children and that a medical examination of the politician had been conducted by an expert team.
Pakistan army chief says UAE security key to Islamabad’s own in Abu Dhabi meeting
ISLAMABAD: The Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir told his UAE counterpart on Monday that the security and stability of the United Arab Emirates were an integral part of Pakistan’s own security, the Pakistani military said.
Two killed, 17 hurt in motorcycle bomb blast near police station in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR: At least two people, including a child, were killed and 17 others wounded when a time bomb concealed in a motorcycle detonated near a police station in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, police said.
Pakistan, Austria agree to expand cooperation as Sharif makes first visit in over three decades
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Austria agreed on Monday to deepen their bilateral ties across a range of sectors including trade, investment and education as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Chancellor Christian Stocker in Vienna.
Stocks tumble most in months as foreign outflows, political noise kit KSE-100
KARACHI: Pakistan’s benchmark stock index suffered its steepest one-day point drop in months on Monday, as persistent foreign outflows and a fresh wave of political jitters sent investors scurrying for the exits.
A Prison Cell, a Medical Board and a Crisis of Trust
In the dim confines of Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail, where former prime minister Imran Khan has been held since 2023, the latest chapter in his long ordeal unfolds not in the courtroom but in the cold beam of an ophthalmologist’s lamp. There is something profoundly unsettling about a former prime minister losing his sight in prison. Not in the dramatic, cinematic sense of a sudden affliction, but in the slow, grinding way that speaks of neglect and denial. For Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician who once commanded Pakistan’s streets with the fervour of a rock star, this latest twist in his two-and-a-half-year incarceration is a grim reminder of how power operates in this fractured democracy.
Imran Khan’s vision shows marked improvement after court-ordered eye exam in prison, report says
ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision in his right eye has improved substantially after treatment for a serious retinal condition while he has been held in Adiala Jail, according to a detailed medical report released Monday by a team of government-appointed ophthalmologists.
Law minister says Khan’s eye treatment fully satisfactory as opposition protest enters fourth day
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Monday that a medical team had expressed complete satisfaction with the ongoing treatment of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan’s eye, downplaying concerns about his vision as a sit-in by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its alliance partners over the issue entered its fourth day.