ISLAMABAD: Police in Punjab province have detained elderly parents and siblings of opposition activists who evaded arrest, including a 93-year-old man held until officials were informed of his failing health, as authorities mount an escalating campaign to stop a nationwide protest planned for Sept. 27, local media reported.
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Parliament to take up new-provinces debate in October, minister says
The question of whether Pakistan should carve out new provinces will reach the floor of parliament next month, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said Thursday, moving a proposal that has unsettled political leaders across the country from the realm of speculation into a formal legislative calendar.
Pakistan fuel prices rise for fourth day amid Red Sea escalation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised retail fuel prices for a fourth consecutive day, extending the steepest run of increases since the country moved to daily pricing in July, as attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure add a new front to the Middle East conflict driving global crude higher.
Cricketer Rizwan, Haq grilled by cyber crime agency over alleged dressing-room leaks
LAHORE: Two of Pakistan’s most prominent cricketers, Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq, presented themselves before the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency in Lahore on Thursday, as officials pressed ahead with an inquiry into alleged leaks from the team’s dressing room during its troubled tour of England.
Pakistan heads into IMF review with revenue and reform gaps
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing for a pivotal encounter with the International Monetary Fund this month, as a staff mission arrives to assess whether the South Asian nation has done enough to keep its $7 billion bailout on track despite a persistent revenue shortfall and stalled anti-corruption reforms.
Afghan medical students take fight over Pakistan’s expulsion order to Lahore court
LAHORE: Thirteen Afghan medical students filed suit against Pakistan’s top medical regulator on Thursday, asking a provincial court to block an order that would send them home to Afghanistan before they finish the degrees they have spent years pursuing.
Qatar LNG tanker docks in Karachi after first open Hormuz crossing in six weeks
KARACHI: A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker docked in Pakistan on Thursday after openly crossing the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in nearly six weeks, a rare success for Gulf energy shipments even as the US and Iran traded their heaviest wave of tanker attacks since their war began.
Sindh minister apologises to judicial panel probing Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: The Sindh home minister stood before a judicial commission Thursday and apologised without qualification, seeking to put to rest a dispute that had briefly stalled the panel’s inquiry into the death of a 25-year-old businessman whose family has insisted for weeks that he was murdered.
PM Sharif to press for Iran diplomacy as UN gathering opens under war’s shadow – report
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to New York later this month to address the United Nations General Assembly, where he is expected to press the case that the war between the United States and Iran should end at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield — a message Islamabad has delivered, with mixed results, since the conflict reignited this summer.
Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Saudi attacks escalate, testing new defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has delivered a pointed warning to Iran to restrain its Houthi allies in Yemen, after a surge of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia left dozens wounded and threatened to pull the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance into its first real test.