ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began a feasibility study on Tuesday to determine whether the South Asian nation should build strategic petroleum reserves, turning to global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie as it seeks to shore up defences against the kind of supply shocks that have rattled global oil markets this year.
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American mountaineer Sarah Mallory Geis’s remains brought down from Broad Peak
SKARDU: The body of an American mountaineer who died in an avalanche on one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks was airlifted on Tuesday, more than three weeks after she and nine other climbers were buried in a wall of snow and ice on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan.
Senate erupts over hospital transfer of jailed opposition leader Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: A bitter dispute over the medical treatment of Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime minister, spilled into the country’s Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers from the government and the opposition accused each other of defying a Supreme Court order meant to guarantee his care.
PTI refiles contempt petition over Imran Khan’s diverted hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan registrar’s office on Tuesday accepted a refiled contempt of court petition accusing senior government officials of defying a court order that directed jailed former prime minister Imran Khan be transferred to a private hospital for medical treatment, after an earlier version of the filing was returned for procedural deficiencies.
Pakistan’s army chief Munir returns to Tehran as peace track stalls, US ramps up economic pressure
Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for another round of talks aimed at salvaging a peace process that has largely stalled in recent weeks, even as the Trump administration unveiled a sweeping new sanctions campaign designed to further isolate Tehran from the global economy.
Officer in custody after gunfire caught on video during campus protest
ISLAMABAD: An officer has been taken into custody and is facing disciplinary proceedings after a video showing him firing a pistol into the air during a confrontation with student protesters at a university in Islamabad circulated widely on social media, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pakistan opens bonded fuel storage to foreign suppliers after Hormuz shock
ISLAMABAD: The government approved a plan allowing international fuel suppliers to build and operate their own bonded storage facilities in the country, a move aimed at insulating the South Asian nation from the kind of supply shocks triggered by the recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Imran Khan’s PTI party denies deal talk, demands court enforce hospital order
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan dismissed rumors of a backroom deal between his party’s imprisoned founder, Imran Khan, and the government on Monday, telling reporters outside the Supreme Court that a man willing to negotiate his freedom would not have spent the last three years behind bars.
New Kashmir assembly sworn in as PML-N extends its majority
MUZAFFARABAD: The new Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly took shape on Monday, as outgoing Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar administered the oath of office to 38 newly elected lawmakers, capping a bruising three-phase election season that has left the territory’s two dominant parties further estranged.
Jemima Goldsmith urges Britain to intervene over Imran Khan’s treatment in prison
ISLAMABAD: Jemima Goldsmith, the British socialite and former wife of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, called on the British government on Monday to intervene in her ex-husband’s treatment, saying Pakistan is defying its own Supreme Court and that the matter has become “a human-rights emergency.”