ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office renewed its appeal on Thursday for the United States and Iran to halt their exchange of strikes and return to the negotiating table, acknowledging for a second consecutive week that the fragile peace framework it helped broker is coming under mounting strain.
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Iran attacks US military sites in Gulf after fresh American strikes
Iran fired missiles and drones at American military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan early on Thursday, hours after the United States pushed its bombing campaign deeper into Iranian territory and tightened a naval blockade around the country’s ports, in the latest sharp turn in a war that has ground on for nearly five months over control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Security forces thwart suicide attack on military post in Waziristan; four militants killed
WANA: Security forces foiled a suicide bombing attempt against a military post in Pakistan’s tribal belt late on Wednesday, killing the would-be attacker and three other militants before they could reach their target, officials said.
Pakistan joins China-led AI alliance as FM Dar departs for Shanghai summit
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar left Islamabad on Thursday for a two-day visit to Shanghai, where he is expected to sign Pakistan into a newly formed international body aimed at coordinating global cooperation on artificial intelligence, according to a statement from the Foreign Office.
Pakistan’s energy squeeze widens as priciest LNG buy meets fuel, gas warnings
KARACHI: Pakistan’s energy sector is confronting simultaneous pressures on multiple fronts, as the country secured its costliest spot liquefied natural gas cargo since February even as two sanctioned tankers carrying Iranian crude signalled Pakistani waters as a destination, and industry groups warned of imminent petrol and propane shortages.
Pakistan’s factory output rebounds as autos, food drive 5.8 percent manufacturing surge
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s large-scale manufacturing sector expanded 5.77% in the 11 months through May, its strongest stretch of growth in years, as a rebound in car production and food output offset persistent weakness in textiles, pharmaceuticals and steel.
Pakistan textile exports barely grow as costs, Afghan halt bite
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s textile and clothing exports, the backbone of the country’s outbound trade, grew just 0.26% in the fiscal year through June, one of the weakest annual performances in recent years, as elevated production costs and the loss of key regional markets undercut an industry that accounts for roughly half of national exports.
Twin attacks in Pakistan’s northwest leave 3 policemen dead, 20 wounded
PESHAWAR: Â Militants ambushed a security convoy in Pakistan’s northwest on Wednesday, and hours later a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in a nearby city, leaving at least three police officers dead and 20 wounded in the latest sign that violence is intensifying along the border with Afghanistan.
Vitol turns Pakistan’s Gwadar into bunkering bet as Hormuz risk grows
KARACHI: Vitol Group has started supplying marine fuel at Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, a wager that the deep-sea facility can carve out a share of the lucrative bunkering trade as shipping lines look for alternatives to Persian Gulf hubs rattled by the conflict between Israel and Iran.
PTI to mark three years of Imran Khan’s imprisonment with nationwide rallies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, announced on Wednesday it will hold rallies in cities across the country on Aug. 5, the date that will mark three full years since Khan’s arrest set off one of the most turbulent chapters in the nation’s recent political history.