ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued a double rebuke to international scrutiny of its conduct, rejecting outright an Amnesty International report into deadly air strikes in Kabul while separately voicing “disappointment” at a European Union assessment that found the country had regressed on several of its human rights and governance commitments.
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Pakistan tells IMF reforms are working as it presses Washington for $10 billion cash backstop
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s finance minister told the International Monetary Fund that the government’s austerity-driven overhaul is delivering results, capping a Washington visit in which he also pressed US officials for a $10 billion currency backstop that Treasury has yet to publicly address.
Houthis strike Saudi oil tankers as US pounds Iran for 12th straight night
ISLAMABAD: Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with a barrage of missiles and drones on Wednesday evening, the group claimed, in an attack that threatens to open a second maritime front in the Middle East war even as the United States pressed on with its bombing campaign against Iran, now in its twelfth consecutive night.
Curfew imposed in Balochistan district after gunmen kill three in ambush on Karachi-bound bus
QUETTA: Pakistani authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew across a sub-district of Balochistan province after gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus travelling to Karachi, killing three people and wounding five, in the latest bloodshed to hit the restive southwestern region.
Petrol rises by Rs6.39, diesel by Rs7.83 in daily price review
Pakistan raised petrol and diesel prices for Thursday, the latest in a string of newly installed daily pricing mechanism the government rolled out this week to keep pump rates in step with volatile global crude markets amid conflict in the Persian Gulf.
Trump threatens to bomb Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship attacked in Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump has raised the stakes in the war with Iran, threatening to destroy an Iranian bridge or power station in retaliation for any future attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz — a warning that extends, he made clear, to targets inside Tehran itself.
PPP chief accuses coalition partner PML-N of plotting to install Nawaz Sharif as AJK premier
MIRPUR: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of working to change Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s constitutional arrangements so that Nawaz Sharif could become the territory’s premier, opening a public rift with the party that sits alongside his own in the federal coalition.
PM Sharif says Pakistan now builds 60 percent of its drones at home
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that more than 60 percent of Pakistan’s drones are now manufactured domestically, as he opened a two-day robotics and autonomous systems exhibition in Islamabad.
Pakistan monsoon death toll climbs to 72 as flooding threat grows across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: At least 72 people have died in monsoon-related incidents across Pakistan since late June, after a fresh burst of heavy rain killed nine more in Punjab and 15 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the past 24 hours, disaster management officials said on Wednesday.
Ten militants killed, two female suicide bombers captured in Balochistan raids
QUETTA: Security forces killed 10 militants and captured two female suicide bombers along with a man accused of facilitating them, in a fresh round of operations across two districts of restive Balochistan province, the military said on Wednesday.