ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 13 militants in a series of intelligence-driven raids across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over two days, the military said on Sunday, part of an escalating counterterrorism campaign as violence in the region surges and border tensions with Afghanistan intensify.
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Pakistan lines up three fuel cargoes, seeks IMF relief as Middle East conflict pushes oil import bill
KARACHI: Pakistan is racing to secure three petroleum cargoes due by Monday while scrambling for alternative supplies from Gulf allies and preparing to ask the International Monetary Fund for relief on the petroleum levy, as the escalating Israel-Iran conflict drives crude prices higher and threatens the country’s energy imports through the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistani fisherman slain by fallout of Israeli projectile in Iranian waters; another dies in Dubai amid escalating conflict
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani fisherman was killed on Saturday when debris from an Israeli projectile, intercepted by Iranian air defences, struck his boat in Iranian waters, officials said on Sunday, the latest sign that the United States-Israel war on Iran is claiming civilian lives far beyond the battlefield.
Pakistan to roll out austerity plan as Sharif battles fuel crisis from US-Israel attack on Iran
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will announce an austerity plan on Monday as the country confronts a global fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israel-Iran war, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Jailed PTI leaders warn political rifts and external shocks threaten sovereignty and economy
LAHORE: Five senior leaders of opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, currently held in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, warned on Saturday that “internal divisions and external pressures” are threatening the country’s sovereignty, economy and democratic future, and appealed to all political actors to put aside personal ambitions and institutional rivalries for the sake of national survival.
Pakistan says precise strikes hit militant sites in Afghanistan, Taliban warns of retaliation if Kabul attacked
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday its security forces were carrying out precise intelligence-driven operations against terrorist infrastructure inside Afghanistan, insisting the campaign was designed to minimise civilian harm even as cross-border clashes with the Taliban government intensified into what one Pakistani minister has described as “open war.”
Pakistan Railways lifts fares as diesel costs surge 20 percent after record fuel hike tied to Iran conflict
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is increasing ticket prices across passenger classes and freight services by as much as 20 percent starting March 9, passing on part of the pain from the government’s largest-ever fuel-price increase triggered by the spillover of fighting in the Middle East.
PM Sharif directs provincial fuel conservation push after record Rs55 price hike
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed the finance and petroleum ministers to coordinate with provincial governments on strategies to conserve petroleum products and guarantee uninterrupted supplies, a day after the country imposed its biggest-ever one-week fuel price increase.
Pakistan’s top general meets Saudi defence minister to counter Iranian attacks under defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s chief of defence forces and army staff chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, met on Saturday with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman to address the kingdom’s mounting security concerns over repeated Iranian drone and missile attacks, officials from both sides said.
Anti-terrorism court sentences 47 PTI leaders, supporters to 10 years in prison for 2023 attack on military headquarters
RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi sentenced 47 leaders and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to a decade in prison each on Saturday, convicting them in absentia of orchestrating and participating in violent attacks on the army’s General Headquarters and other military sites during nationwide riots in May 2023.