ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Airports Authority will temporarily suspend all flight operations at Islamabad International Airport for two hours on Monday due to operational reasons.
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Pakistan orders 5 percent–30 percent pay cuts at state firms to fund public relief amid oil shock
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will slash pay for employees of state-owned enterprises and government-backed autonomous institutions by 5% to 30%, directing every rupee saved into public relief programs as the country grapples with soaring fuel costs from the US-Israel war on Iran.
Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban claims of capturing military outpost as propaganda
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected claims by the Afghan Taliban that its forces had captured a military outpost and killed 14 soldiers, branding the assertions as fabricated propaganda designed to mislead the Afghan public.
President Zardari says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari warned on Saturday that Afghanistan’s Taliban government had crossed a dangerous threshold by launching drone attacks on Pakistani civilian areas, declaring that the strikes had brought “grave consequences upon itself” and risked a further escalation in a conflict that has already claimed dozens of lives on both sides of the porous border.
Pakistan rebukes India over closure of Srinagar Jama Masjid on last Friday of Ramadan
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday issued a sharp rebuke of Indian authorities for keeping the gates of Srinagar’s centuries-old Jama Masjid locked, barring thousands of Muslim worshippers from prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Seven policemen martyred in IED blast as forces kill six militants in same district
LAKKI MARWAT: Terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device under a police patrol vehicle on Friday in the volatile Bettani subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven officers including a station house officer in the latest blow to security forces struggling to contain a surge in militant violence along the Afghan border.
Pakistan downs Taliban-linked drones near Islamabad as debris injures civilians and tensions soar
ISLAMABAD: The security forces intercepted two rudimentary drones Friday that authorities said were launched from Afghanistan by the Taliban regime and its proxies, bringing them down with electronic countermeasures before they could strike intended targets near Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjacent to the capital.
Imran Khan’s party threatens post-Eid protests, accusing government of endangering ex-PM’s health
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party warned on Friday that it would not tolerate what it called the government’s “criminal negligence” in the medical treatment of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, signalling it was prepared to launch a large-scale movement for his release once the Eid holidays end.
PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi sworn in as Sindh governor after abrupt ouster of MQM-P ally
KARACHI: Nehal Hashmi, a longtime stalwart of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, took the oath of office on Friday as the new governor of Sindh, capping a rapid and unexpected appointment that has strained relations within Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition.
Pakistan pauses fuel price hike even as Iran war drives oil near $100
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif opted against raising petroleum product prices on Friday, choosing to shield consumers from the latest surge in global oil costs triggered by the widening Middle East war.