RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s senior military leadership pledged Monday to take “all measures necessary” to secure the country’s water rights under the Indus Waters Treaty, according to a statement from the armed forces’ media wing, as tensions with India over the decades-old water-sharing agreement continue to simmer.
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In Lahore abduction case, a minister’s family name and a scramble to contain the fallout
LAHORE: The car was supposed to be headed for the airport. That, at least, is what the man driving it had told the two women in the back seat, according to Lahore police: that a ransom had been paid, that they were free, that their ordeal was over.
Clashes erupt in part of Azad Kashmir amid regionwide strike, protests
MIRPUR: A general strike shut businesses across Azad Kashmir on Sunday and protesters clashed with police in several towns, as demonstrations organised by a banned political group entered their second month and a month-long internet blackout showed no sign of ending.
Pakistan’s June LNG prices jumped 15 percent after Gulf conflict hit Qatar supplies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s energy regulator raised the price of regasified liquefied natural gas by roughly 15% for June, as the country’s two state-linked gas utilities were forced into costlier spot-market purchases after the war between the US and Iran disrupted contracted supplies from Qatar, Dawn newspaper reported on Monday.
Air Force officer Tariq dies shielding stranger on Islamabad avenue
ISLAMABAD: Group Captain Asim Tariq had just left his house near Shaheen Chowk on Sunday, driving through the capital, when something on the road ahead made him turn around.
11-year-old boy to face trial in Karachi’s Gul Plaza fire that killed 72
KARACHI: An 11-year-old boy has been charged with negligently starting a fire that killed 72 people and destroyed more than 1,100 shops at a crowded commercial plaza here, according to a charge sheet filed in court Saturday — a document that also accuses building managers of locking emergency exits and never calling for help as the blaze consumed the structure.
Pakistan, Turkey renew pledge to hit $5 billion in trade
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey on Saturday recommitted to a long-standing goal of raising bilateral trade to $5 billion, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a day of meetings here to widen cooperation on energy, mining, technology, and regional diplomacy.
Suspected drone strike kills three sisters in northwest Pakistan
WANA: Three sisters were killed and four other members of their family were wounded before dawn on Sunday when explosives believed to have been dropped by a quadcopter drone struck their home in a remote district of northwestern Pakistan, according to local officials and hospital sources, the latest in a monthslong string of unexplained aerial attacks that has left residents of the country’s tribal belt increasingly afraid to sleep in their own houses.
Pakistan recalls Babar Azam as test captain for West Indies, England tours
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket selectors reinstated Babar Azam as Test captain on Sunday, naming him to lead the team on upcoming tours of the West Indies and England as the board seeks to arrest a decline in results under his predecessor.
Pakistan poised to host next round of US-Iran nuclear talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is positioning itself as the venue for the next round of technical negotiations between the United States and Iran, according to diplomatic sources, with talks expected to resume July 11 even as the two governments continued to hurl insults at each other during the funeral proceedings for Iran’s assassinated supreme leader.