MUZAFFARABAD: Senior leaders from Pakistan’s two governing coalition partners sat down again on Saturday in an attempt to calm a rapidly escalating row over allegations of vote-rigging in the first phase of elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, hours before polling opens in the region’s second phase on Sunday.
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Army major martyred as forces kill 12 militants in North Waziristan and Balochistan raids
ISLAMABAD: An army officer was martyred on Saturday when security forces battled militants in North Waziristan, one of two intelligence-led operations in Pakistan’s restive western provinces that also left seven militants dead in Balochistan, including a would-be suicide bomber, according to the military’s media wing.
Mountaineering icon Nirmal Purja dies in Broad Peak avalanche along with nine other expedition members
GILGIT: Record-setting Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has died after an avalanche struck an expedition on Pakistan’s Broad Peak, his expedition company confirmed on Saturday, in a disaster that also killed one of Oman’s most accomplished climbers.
Search resumes for seven climbers missing on Broad Peak as rescuers battle weather and altitude
ISLAMABAD: Rescue teams backed by Pakistan Army helicopters resumed the search on Saturday morning for seven climbers still missing on Broad Peak, two days after an avalanche tore through a 10-member international expedition on one of the world’s most formidable 8,000-metre peaks.
Pakistan tax authority beats July target on sales tax surge
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue collected Rs816 billion in July, beating its monthly target by Rs36 billion in a start to the fiscal year that officials say was buoyed by stronger sales tax intake and the release of vehicles held up at ports.
Minister Naqvi’s call to redraw Pakistan’s provincial map splits coalition and sparks constitutional row
ISLAMABAD: A proposal by Pakistan’s interior minister to tear up the country’s administrative map has plunged the governing coalition into open disagreement, drawn a blunt rebuff from the chief minister of Sindh, and prompted lawyers in Lahore to accuse the minister of proposing something the constitution does not allow.
Nadeem’s Commonwealth title defence ends in stunning ninth-place exit
KARACHI: Arshad Nadeem’s reign as Commonwealth javelin champion came to an abrupt and unexpected end on Friday evening, as Pakistan’s Olympic gold medallist was eliminated from medal contention at Scotstoun Stadium in what ranked among the most startling results of the Glasgow Games’ athletics programme.
OGRA raises RLNG prices by record 32 percent on costly imports
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s energy regulator ordered the steepest increase in imported natural gas prices since the country began buying the fuel a decade ago, a move that will raise costs for millions of consumers already contending with elevated inflation, while the government redirects billions of rupees in unrelated savings toward debt reduction rather than price relief.
Fears grow for flood-hit provinces as key dams edge towards maximum levels
ISLAMABAD: Water levels at two of Pakistan’s largest dams have surged dramatically over the past fortnight, as authorities battle a monsoon season that has already claimed 122 lives and left hundreds injured across the country.
Weather halts search for seven missing Broad Peak climbers after three bodies recovered
ISLAMABAD: The search for seven mountaineers missing since an avalanche tore through a summit attempt on Broad Peak has been suspended because of deteriorating weather, rescue officials in northern Pakistan said on Friday night, as fears grow for the fate of those still unaccounted for on one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks.