ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Saudi Arabia today for a three-day visit that will bring him face to face with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Islamabad seeks to reinforce its standing with Riyadh at a moment of acute instability across the Gulf.
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Pakistan raises petrol price, cuts diesel in first split under daily pricing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised the price of petrol while cutting diesel rates, the first divergence between the two fuels since the government abandoned weekly price-setting for a daily mechanism designed to track international crude markets in near real time.
Naqvi insists PM Shehbaz will serve full term after ‘collapsed system’ remarks spark backlash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Wednesday that the coalition government would serve out its full constitutional term, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif remaining in office for the entire five years, days after his own warning that the country’s governance system had “collapsed” triggered a political storm in Islamabad.
Tear gas, baton charges in Karachi as PTI marks three years since Imran Khan’s imprisonment
KARACHI: Police fired tear gas and baton-charged demonstrators in Karachi on Wednesday as supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf took to the streets across the country to mark three years since the former prime minister’s imprisonment, in scenes that brought parts of the port city to a standstill.
Pakistan and the US report progress on trade framework, aim for early deal
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States said negotiations over a reciprocal trade framework have advanced substantially, with officials from both governments pledging to wrap up the agreement soon following a virtual meeting between Islamabad’s finance minister and Washington’s top trade negotiator.
US and Iran edge towards Hormuz deal despite deep mistrust
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said the United States and Iran had held “very good discussions” during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, as diplomats inched towards a deal that could finally reopen the Strait of Hormuz after five months of war have throttled a fifth of the world’s oil and gas trade.
Pakistan warns Al-Aqsa incursions could draw region into wider conflict
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called on Arab and Muslim-majority countries to present a united front against Israeli actions in Jerusalem, warning that repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by settlers risk dragging the wider region, and adherents of multiple faiths, into a broader conflict.
PM Sharif courts foreign investors to revive Pakistan’s power utilities privatization drive
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered officials to draw up a “comprehensive strategy” for luring international investors into the country’s power-distribution privatization program and told the Privatization Commission to finish its own institutional overhaul within a month, as the government presses ahead with a sale process the International Monetary Fund has linked to broader fiscal reform.
Bodies of Nirmal Purja and three teammates brought down from Broad Peak; three still missing
GILGIT: A rescue team has brought the bodies of the celebrated climber Nirmal Purja and three members of his expedition down to the base camp of Broad Peak, the Pakistani mountain on which they died in an avalanche last week, the Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed.
Pakistan’s leaders renew solidarity with occupied Kashmir on seventh anniversary of India’s annexation of disputed territory
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s president, prime minister and military chiefs delivered a coordinated message of solidarity with Kashmiris on Wednesday, using the seventh anniversary of India’s decision to strip the disputed region of its special constitutional status to renew calls for international intervention.