ISLAMABAD: Security forces in Balochistan province killed 15 militants over the weekend in a series of raids across eight districts, the interior ministry and state media said, as the country’s largest province by area continues to record its bloodiest period of violence in more than a decade.
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Pakistan sees $5 billion refinery deals as Türkiye revives offshore drilling
ISLAMABAD Pakistan expects to begin signing $5 billion worth of binding investment agreements to modernize its aging oil refineries starting next month, as the South Asian nation moves to shore up energy security following months of supply disruptions tied to the war between the US and Iran.
Judicial commission to probe Mir Raza Ali’s murder after second postmortem rules out suicide
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has decided to seek a judicial commission to investigate the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali, the province’s home minister said on Sunday, as authorities moved to overhaul the inquiry into a death that has gripped Karachi for more than a week.
Makkah defence pact ‘open to any country’ willing to honour its principles, says Dar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has said the newly signed defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara is open to any country in the region prepared to uphold its founding principles, as he moved to clarify the scope of an agreement struck at a moment of acute regional tension.
Pakistan truckers halt nationwide freight in fuel-price standoff
KARACHI: Pakistan’s goods transport industry ground to a halt Saturday as thousands of truckers began an indefinite nationwide strike, escalating a dispute with the government over daily diesel price adjustments, toll charges and tax policy that threatens to disrupt supply chains across the South Asian nation.
Muslim world hails trilateral defence pact as landmarks across Saudi Arabia lit up in celebration
ISLAMABAD: Landmarks across Saudi Arabia were lit up with the flags of Pakistan, Türkiye and the kingdom over the weekend, as reaction continued to pour in to a new trilateral defence pact binding the three nations to treat an attack on any one of them as an attack on all.
PML-N eyes two-thirds majority in AJK as third-phase vote nears
BAGH: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz needs just six more seats to secure a two-thirds majority government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday, addressing a rally in Bagh ahead of the third phase of elections in the region.
“This was murder”: second autopsy finds gunshot wound to back, broken bones on Mir Raza Ali
KARACHI: A second post-mortem examination carried out on the exhumed body of a young Karachi businessman has found that he was shot from behind and suffered extensive injuries consistent with a violent assault before his death, according to a preliminary medical report described by the family’s lawyer and cited by local broadcasters on Saturday.
Army captain martyred as forces say seven militants killed in northwest operation
ISLAMABAD: An army captain was martyred, and seven militants were killed during an intelligence-based operation in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Saturday.
IBA graduate’s exhumation set for today after Sindh restores original medical board amid backlash
KARACHI: After a day of confusion, accusation and last-minute reversals, the Sindh government on Friday evening backed down and reinstated the original eight-member medical board assigned to exhume the body of Mir Raza Ali, the young businessman whose death last month has become one of Karachi’s most closely watched cases. The exhumation, abandoned on Friday morning amid furious objections from Ali’s family, is now due to go ahead this morning.