Gunmen kill police officer guarding polio team on first day of nationwide vaccination drive

ISLAMABAD: A police constable was killed, and four other officers were wounded on Monday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a security detail escorting polio vaccination workers in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said, marking the first such assault on law enforcement personnel protecting the teams this year.

Read more

UPDATED: FM Aurangzeb kicks off Spring meetings with World Bank, IFC push for reforms and private capital

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb began his program at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings on Monday with a pair of high-level discussions focused on deepening international support for Pakistan’s economic agenda amid fresh external pressures from the Middle East conflict.

Read more

Iran warns ‘no port in region will be safe’ as US blockade of Hormuz set to begin in hours, oil surges past $100

ISLAMABAD: Iran’s armed forces warned Monday that “no port in the region will be safe” if the United States proceeds with its planned naval blockade of Iranian ports and coastal waters, declaring the impending operation an “illegal act” that “amounts to piracy” and vowing that security in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman will be “for everyone or for no one.”

Read more

UPDATED: US-Iran talks collapse in Islamabad after marathon 21-hour session, Tehran rejects Washington’s core demands over nuclear program

ISLAMABAD: Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the United States and Iran had failed to reach any agreement after more than 21 hours of direct, high-stakes negotiations here, the first face-to-face talks between senior officials of the two nations in more than four decades and the highest-level contact since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Read more

UPDATED: US and Iran meet face to face after decades, testing a fragile path out of war

ISLAMABAD: Direct talks between the United States and Iran, mediated by Pakistan, stretched into a third round on Sunday as teams of experts from both sides pored over one another’s demands in an effort to convert a two-week-old ceasefire into a permanent end to six weeks of devastating conflict.

Read more

UPDATED: Sharif pushes durable peace as Vance and Ghalibaf converge in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held separate meetings on Saturday with the top American and Iranian delegations as high-stakes negotiations opened here to transform a fragile two-week ceasefire into a lasting end to the six-week Middle East war that has killed thousands, disrupted global energy supplies and shaken the world economy.

Read more

1 37 38 39 40 41 467