LAHORE: Two more sisters of Imran Khan were detained for 30 days on Monday, a day after a third was taken into custody, as authorities moved against the jailed former prime minister’s family in the run-up to a mass protest planned for 27 September.
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Two young Army officers among six soldiers martyred in Hangu firefight as militant violence grips northwest Pakistan
Two Army officers, a captain of 23 and a lieutenant of 22, were martyred on Sunday leading their troops into a firefight with militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, part of a battle that left six security personnel and eight insurgents dead, the military said.
Jamaat-i-Islami begins march on Pakistan’s capital over fuel levy
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, the leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, boarded a train at Cantonment Station on Sunday bound for Islamabad, opening a march that he warned could grow from a protest over fuel taxes into an effort to bring down the government.
Pakistan seeks bids in first 400-megawatt power wheeling auction
Pakistan said it’s exiting the business of buying electricity, launching a competitive market that will let large industrial users purchase power directly from producers in a break from a state-run system that has drawn years of criticism over its contracts with private generators.
Pakistan puts Rs120 billion daily price tag on unrest before Imran Khan’s party takes to streets
Pakistan’s finance minister warned that a wave of planned protests could cost the economy about 120 billion rupees a day, as the government tries to head off marches on the capital by two opposition groups and a farmers’ alliance.
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.
Talks collapse, JI to press ahead with fuel-tax protest march in Islamabad
LAHORE: Talks between the government and the country’s largest Islamist party collapsed on Saturday, leaving the authorities facing a week of mass protest in and around the capital after Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) refused to call off a march against fuel taxes.
Pakistan rejects Taliban ‘pretence of dialogue’, warns terrorists will be hit ‘wherever they are’ after Kohat attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of using the “pretence of dialogue” to shield militants, as it warned it had the “will and capability” to eliminate terrorist threats “wherever they are” following a suicide attack on a police mosque that killed at least 23 people.
Only jailed Imran Khan can call off march on Islamabad, opposition says
ISLAMABAD: The opposition has said that nobody but the jailed Imran Khan can call off a planned march on the capital, confirming that the interior minister met opposition leaders in private just days before publicly promising to stop the protest by force of law.
Pakistan moves to fix gaps in PM Sharif’s fuel relief scheme as uptake tops 1.7 million
ISLAMABAD: The government moved to broaden and tidy up Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s fuel relief program on Saturday, ordering that every operating fuel station be brought onto the system, allowing token redemption by text message where there is no internet, and loosening the rules for motorcycle, rickshaw and Qingqi riders who make up the bulk of enrollees.