ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani police constable has been arrested and charged with murder after a nine-year-old Australian girl was shot dead when officers opened fire on her family’s vehicle during an armed robbery in Punjab province, mistaking the car for one being used by fleeing suspects.
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Monsoon storms kill ten across Pakistan as climate funding falls far short of crisis scale
ISLAMABAD: At least ten people have been killed and more than 40 injured across Pakistan after a 72-hour spell of monsoon rains, severe thunderstorms and flash flooding swept through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, leaving a trail of collapsed roofs, overturned vehicles and inundated valleys.
Two killed in Rawalakot as PPP moves to postpone AJK elections over escalating unrest
MUZAFFARABAD: Two people were killed and eight others wounded in clashes between protesters and law enforcement in the Azad Kashmir city of Rawalakot in the early hours of Sunday, as a deepening political crisis over forthcoming regional elections exposed significant fractures within Pakistan’s ruling coalition.
Two pilots killed as Pakistan Air Force trainer crashes near Mardan
ISLAMABAD: Two military pilots have been killed after a Pakistan Air Force trainer aircraft crashed near Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, the military’s media wing announced, in the second fatal aviation accident to strike Pakistan’s armed forces within a week.
SBP seen pausing rate hikes as US-Iran peace deal reshapes oil outlook
KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank faces one of its more unusual policy meetings in recent memory on Monday, convening its Monetary Policy Committee just hours after the United States and Iran announced a peace deal that dramatically altered the geopolitical backdrop that had driven the South Asian nation’s first interest-rate increase in nearly three years.
Trump and Iran agree framework to end war — but the devil is buried in the detail
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran declared an end to months of devastating war on Sunday night, announcing a framework agreement that would halt military operations, lift America’s naval blockade of Iranian ports and reopen the Strait of Hormuz — the critical Gulf waterway that Tehran has effectively closed to global shipping since the conflict began in February.
Iran and US near accord to end war, but split over timing persists
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran edged toward a preliminary peace agreement on Saturday, only to fall into a public dispute over when — or whether — it would be signed, as Pakistan set a Sunday virtual ceremony, Tehran said that was premature, and President Trump posted on Truth Social that the signing was 24 hours away and the Strait of Hormuz would open to all shipping the moment it happened.
PM Sharif extends olive branch to opposition even as parliament clashes over budget cuts
ISLAMABAD: The day after his government laid out an $67.5 billion federal budget built on austerity and IMF discipline, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stood before a restless National Assembly on Saturday and offered something harder to price: an appeal to the political opposition to set aside their differences and forge a shared compact for the country’s future.
Pakistan says Iran-US peace deal hours away, but skirmishes flare in the Strait
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday that a peace agreement to end the three-month war between the United States and Iran could be finalised within 24 hours, a statement of striking optimism that landed even as American warships were shooting down Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz.
Security forces kill 21 more militants in North Waziristan, bringing week’s toll to 48
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 48 militants over the past week in a series of intelligence-guided operations in North Waziristan, the military said Saturday, as the army pressed a sweeping counterterrorism campaign in tribal districts that have long been among the country’s most volatile.