GILGIT: Pakistani military helicopters on Thursday airlifted the bodies of five more climbers off the slopes of Broad Peak, nearly a week and a half after an avalanche tore through a ten-member international expedition led by the celebrated mountaineer Nirmal Purja, in what the Alpine Club of Pakistan has called one of the country’s deadliest mountaineering disasters.
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Security forces kill 12 militants in twin Balochistan raids
RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 12 militants in two intelligence-led raids in Balochistan on Wednesday and Thursday, the military said, the latest strikes in a province where attacks have surged for much of this year.
PM Sharif lands in Jeddah for talks with Saudi crown prince as Gulf tensions mount
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif touched down in Jeddah on Thursday evening at the start of a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, arriving alongside Chief of Defence Forces and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for talks expected to centre on the kingdom’s deepening security partnership with Islamabad.
Pakistan says India has ‘no standing’ to question Kashmir elections
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Press freedom groups condemn Pakistan’s new travel curbs on foreign media
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PM Sharif, military chief Munir head to Saudi Arabia with Gulf conflict high on agenda
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Saudi Arabia today for a three-day visit that will bring him face to face with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Islamabad seeks to reinforce its standing with Riyadh at a moment of acute instability across the Gulf.
Pakistan raises petrol price, cuts diesel in first split under daily pricing
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised the price of petrol while cutting diesel rates, the first divergence between the two fuels since the government abandoned weekly price-setting for a daily mechanism designed to track international crude markets in near real time.
Naqvi insists PM Shehbaz will serve full term after ‘collapsed system’ remarks spark backlash
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Wednesday that the coalition government would serve out its full constitutional term, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif remaining in office for the entire five years, days after his own warning that the country’s governance system had “collapsed” triggered a political storm in Islamabad.
Tear gas, baton charges in Karachi as PTI marks three years since Imran Khan’s imprisonment
KARACHI: Police fired tear gas and baton-charged demonstrators in Karachi on Wednesday as supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf took to the streets across the country to mark three years since the former prime minister’s imprisonment, in scenes that brought parts of the port city to a standstill.