ISLAMABAD: Pakistan told United Nations member states to stop deliberating over digital assets and start building the regulatory architecture to govern them, with the head of the country’s crypto authority casting the choice in stark terms: govern the technology now, or be governed by it later.
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Balochistan chief minister rules out talks with militants, backs new provinces on administrative lines
QUETTA: Balochistan’s chief minister has ruled out any negotiations with those waging an armed insurgency against the Pakistani state, declaring that the province’s security forces would continue their campaign against militancy until, in his words, the “last terrorist” had been eliminated.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah addressing a presser in this undated photo courtesy of APP.
Pakistan’s new-provinces debate escalates as coalition tensions simmer
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fragile ruling coalition sought to project unity at the weekend even as a fractious debate over redrawing the country’s provincial map threatened to expose deepening rifts between its two main partners.
Nepra approves $58 billion power plan over board’s own objections
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s power regulator approved a $58 billion plan to expand electricity generation and transmission over the next decade, even as its own three-member board attached dozens of pages picking apart the document they had just signed off on.
Global press freedom groups press PM Sharif on journalist crackdown
ISLAMABAD: Nine press freedom and human rights organisations, spanning both Pakistan and the international community, sent a letter on Friday to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanding immediate action on a rapidly deteriorating environment for journalists in the country.
JI sets Sept. 20 Islamabad march in fuel-levy showdown
Jamaat-i-Islami, one of Pakistan’s oldest Islamist parties, said it will march on Islamabad on Sept. 20 unless the government scraps a fuel levy that has become the flashpoint for the country’s broadest street protests since Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took office, escalating pressure on an administration already navigating a fragile International Monetary Fund program.
PTI and JUI-F agree to push for national conference amid growing dispute over new provinces
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties agreed on Friday to push for an all-parties conference to address the creation of new provinces, along with law and order and the state of the economy, following a meeting between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leaders in Islamabad.
Sharif orders two-hour cap on power blackouts as Hormuz crisis bites Pakistan’s grid
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered power authorities to hold electricity outages to no more than two hours in any part of the country, moving to contain public anger over blackouts that officials tied directly to the fallout from the war between the US and Iran.
Petrol hits Rs375.82, diesel Rs403.32 as Middle East conflict keeps oil markets on edge
ISLAMABAD: The government raised petrol and diesel prices again on Friday, extending a steady climb in fuel costs this month as war in the Middle East continues to unsettle global oil markets.
Lahore High Court halts order to expel Afghan medical students
LAHORE:Â A Lahore High Court judge on Friday suspended government directives ordering Afghan medical students to leave Pakistan, granting at least temporary relief to 13 students who argued they had been expelled from their colleges without being given a chance to respond.