RAWALPINDI: The story investigators were first given was a burglary gone wrong. A frantic call to police. A household ransacked. A woman found dead.
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FM Dar presses UN maritime chief over 10 Pakistani sailors held by Somali pirates
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar pressed the head of the United Nations’ maritime agency on Monday for “urgent and effective institutional intervention” to free 10 Pakistani sailors who have been held by Somali pirates since April, as the hostages’ families report worsening conditions aboard the hijacked tanker.
Family of slain businessman sues to block judicial commission, demands joint probe
KARACHI: The family of a 25-year-old businessman whose gunshot death last month has roiled this city’s police department went to court Monday, seeking to block a provincial judicial commission formed to review the stalled murder investigation.
Moody’s upgrades Pakistan to B3, citing reserve buildup and fiscal gains
KARACHI: Moody’s Ratings raised Pakistan’s sovereign credit rating one notch to B3 from Caa1 on Monday, pointing to a steady rebuild in foreign-currency reserves and a lighter debt-servicing burden that has given the government more room to maneuver after years of fiscal strain.
Pakistan’s military chief returns to Tehran as US prepares toughest sanctions yet on Iran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for his fourth visit since the outbreak of the war between Iran and the United States, meeting with Iran’s interior minister just hours before Washington was set to unveil what US officials have billed as the harshest round of sanctions ever imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Opposition leader’s failure to unite parties let defence bill sail through parliament, JUI-F chief says
PESHAWAR: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, used a party workers’ convention here Sunday to deliver a pointed critique of Pakistan’s fractured opposition, arguing that its failure to coordinate a unified response allowed the government to push through sweeping new military command legislation with almost no scrutiny.
Nawaz Sharif warns brother against another constitutional crisis
MUZAFFARABAD: Nawaz Sharif summoned the senior ranks of his party to Muzaffarabad on Sunday, opening a meeting that was ostensibly about naming the next prime minister of Azad Kashmir but that drifted, inevitably, into weightier terrain: the health of his political rival, the temper of the Supreme Court, and the durability of his brother’s government in Islamabad.
Police widen inquiry into Rawalpindi woman’s death as husband, servant remain in custody
RAWALPINDI: A duty magistrate here ordered the husband and household servant of a young woman found dead in her apartment last week held in police custody for three additional days, as investigators press forward on a case that has drawn condemnation from the country’s first lady and members of its Parliament.
In Lahore, the daughter of a revolutionary poet fights to sell lunch
LAHORE: For one day last week, Tahira Habib Jalib ran a food stall in the Karim Block market here, selling home-cooked meals she had prepared herself. She made 2,800 rupees, or about $10. Then the city took the cart away.
Cricket greats urge Pakistan PM to honour court order on Imran Khan’s medical care
Twenty-two former international cricketers, including 21 who captained their countries, have written to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging his government to comply fully with a Supreme Court order on the medical treatment of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.