ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s second monsoon spell of the season is overwhelming drainage systems in Punjab provinces and severing road links across the mountainous north, with the national disaster authority reporting a rising death toll and officials in three provinces now on high alert.
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Pakistan business confidence rebounds, but renewed Iran-US fighting clouds outlook
KARACHI: Business confidence in Pakistan strengthened in the second quarter, with companies reporting less-negative views of current conditions and a sharply more optimistic outlook for the year ahead, according to a survey by Gallup Pakistan released on Thursday.
Pakistan condemns Houthi tanker attacks and pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Red Sea crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, pledging his country’s full solidarity with Riyadh in a telephone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as fears grow that the widening Middle East conflict is drawing in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
Pakistan rejects Amnesty’s Kabul strike findings and hits out at EU over trade compliance report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued a double rebuke to international scrutiny of its conduct, rejecting outright an Amnesty International report into deadly air strikes in Kabul while separately voicing “disappointment” at a European Union assessment that found the country had regressed on several of its human rights and governance commitments.
Pakistan tells IMF reforms are working as it presses Washington for $10 billion cash backstop
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s finance minister told the International Monetary Fund that the government’s austerity-driven overhaul is delivering results, capping a Washington visit in which he also pressed US officials for a $10 billion currency backstop that Treasury has yet to publicly address.
Houthis strike Saudi oil tankers as US pounds Iran for 12th straight night
ISLAMABAD: Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with a barrage of missiles and drones on Wednesday evening, the group claimed, in an attack that threatens to open a second maritime front in the Middle East war even as the United States pressed on with its bombing campaign against Iran, now in its twelfth consecutive night.
Curfew imposed in Balochistan district after gunmen kill three in ambush on Karachi-bound bus
QUETTA: Pakistani authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew across a sub-district of Balochistan province after gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus travelling to Karachi, killing three people and wounding five, in the latest bloodshed to hit the restive southwestern region.
Petrol rises by Rs6.39, diesel by Rs7.83 in daily price review
Pakistan raised petrol and diesel prices for Thursday, the latest in a string of newly installed daily pricing mechanism the government rolled out this week to keep pump rates in step with volatile global crude markets amid conflict in the Persian Gulf.
Trump threatens to bomb Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship attacked in Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump has raised the stakes in the war with Iran, threatening to destroy an Iranian bridge or power station in retaliation for any future attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz — a warning that extends, he made clear, to targets inside Tehran itself.
PPP chief accuses coalition partner PML-N of plotting to install Nawaz Sharif as AJK premier
MIRPUR: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of working to change Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s constitutional arrangements so that Nawaz Sharif could become the territory’s premier, opening a public rift with the party that sits alongside his own in the federal coalition.