ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised petrol and diesel prices for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, pushing pump costs to their highest level in more than a month as international crude surged past $100 a barrel on an escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.
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Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university
LAHORE: Twenty Afghan medical students at King Edward Medical University were given 24 hours to report to the administration and begin the process of leaving Pakistan. Seven were in their final year of training. For the women among them, the order does not just interrupt a degree. It sends them back to a country where they are barred from attending university at all.
Pakistan seeks bids to import 750,000 tons of wheat to plug provincial shortfall
KARACHI: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan, the state-run trading agency, issued an international tender on Wednesday inviting global suppliers to bid for 750,000 metric tons of wheat from the 2026 harvest, as the government moves to shore up domestic supplies after provinces flagged tightening stockpiles ahead of the winter months.
Pakistan gets LNG lifeline as stranded Qatari cargo clears Hormuz
KARACHI: Pakistan is poised to receive its first Qatari liquefied natural gas cargo to clear the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to a power grid that has been rationing electricity for months amid the regional conflict gripping the Persian Gulf.
Pakistan remittances rise 16.5 percent as Gulf states anchor inflows
KARACHI: Pakistan’s overseas workers sent home $3.656 billion in August, extending a run of double-digit gains that is helping cushion the country’s external accounts as it navigates a widening trade gap.
Senators clash in fiery hearing over Gujranwala sanitation worker’s death
ISLAMABAD: A Senate hearing into the death of a Gujranwala sanitation worker descended into open hostility on Wednesday, as two senators traded sharp words across the committee room while officials from Suthra Punjab faced sustained questioning over the circumstances of his death.
Pakistan warns Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia could trigger trilateral defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defence minister has warned that a fresh wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia could be enough to activate a fledgling trilateral defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara, as the Yemeni conflict edges closer to spilling across the kingdom’s southern border.
Pakistan welcomes 12-nation push to curb trade with Israeli settlements
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed a coordinated decision by Britain, France and Canada to impose trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as Israel responded to the move by ordering the closure of the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem and barring a dozen British parliamentarians from entering the country.
Eleven militants killed as security forces foil highway ambush and raid bomb-making hideout
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 11 militants and seized nearly three tonnes of explosives in two operations in restive Balochistan province, the military said, in the latest in a string of raids as the south-western region grapples with a marked rise in violence.
PPP chief says interior minister ‘entitled to his opinion’ but demands new provinces row be settled in National Assembly
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has called for the contentious question of creating new provinces to be settled through debate in Parliament, rather than in the public statements and forums that have inflamed tensions between his party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led government’s most senior security official over the past six weeks.