ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold an emergency meeting of the committee overseeing their joint defence pact in Riyadh “very soon”, deputy prime minister has said, as Houthi attacks on Saudi territory push the new alliance towards its first real test.
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Lahore named world’s most polluted major city again, days after chief minister claims “less smog”
LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the most polluted major city in the world on Friday morning, as its air quality fell into the “unhealthy” category and Punjab’s government ordered emergency anti-smog operations across the city’s worst-hit districts.
Pakistan’s September trade gap widens to $3.56 billion on faster import growth
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit widened in September as a rebound in exports failed to keep pace with a larger rise in imports, leaving the shortfall for the first three months of the fiscal year more than $1.4 billion wider than a year earlier.
Govt, PTI talks stretch into weekend with Khan’s party still set on Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party of jailed former premier Imran Khan ended their first day of talks on Friday without agreement, with the two sides due to meet again on Saturday afternoon ahead of the party’s planned march on Islamabad the following day.
Military warns of ‘decisive force’ against any repeat of May 9 violence days before Imran Khan’s party marches on Islamabad
Pakistan’s most senior army officers have warned that any attempt to stir unrest or recreate the violence of 9 May 2023 will be met with “decisive force”, days before the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan sets out on a march towards the capital.
Govt, PTI open talks to seek way out of crisis before march on capital
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz-led coalition government and the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan began talks in Islamabad on Friday, three days before a planned long march on the capital that has pushed Islamabad and the opposition-run province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) towards a constitutional confrontation.
Security forces kill seven TTP militants in North Waziristan raid
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed seven militants in a raid in North Waziristan, state media reported on Friday, the latest in a run of operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the country endures its worst spell of militant violence in more than a decade.
Pakistan backs Saudi Arabia after Houthi drone strike near Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has condemned a drone attack on a power distribution station that supplies electricity to the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, calling it a “grave provocation” and reaffirming its support for Saudi Arabia as fighting in Yemen intensifies.
IMF credits Pakistan on oil shock, presses for gas subsidy overhaul
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund has credited Pakistan with keeping fuel flowing without straining the budget through six months of conflict between the US and Iran, but the two sides remain at odds over how to deal with a Rs3.6 trillion gas-sector debt, according to local media reports.
Pakistan pledges to follow “applicable” Iran sanctions, but won’t say which ones
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has signalled a more cautious approach to the latest US sanctions on Iran, pledging to follow “all applicable sanctions regimes” but declining to say which restrictions it considers to apply.