ISLAMABAD: Four of the Muslim world’s most significant powers have publicly committed themselves to the fragile diplomatic enterprise seeking a permanent end to the US-Iran conflict, urging a “swift and successful” conclusion to technical negotiations even as delegations from Washington and Tehran gathered on the shores of Lake Lucerne on Sunday for the most substantive talks since an interim agreement was reached earlier this week.
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NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national disaster authority has placed the entire country on emergency alert, warning that a convergent weather system will bring thunderstorms, flash flooding, destructive high winds and — in the country’s glaciated north — the sudden, potentially catastrophic release of glacial lakes, all within the next 12 to 24 hours.
US-Iran negotiations begin in Switzerland amid fresh fighting in Lebanon
ISLAMABAD: Senior American and Iranian officials have opened direct negotiations in Switzerland to implement a fragile ceasefire agreement, with US Vice President JD Vance warning that both sides faced a choice between peace and “going back to doing things the old way” as escalating violence in Lebanon threatened to undermine the talks almost before they had begun.
Iran and US open talks in Bürgenstock as Hormuz dispute and Lebanon war cloud diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: US Vice President JD Vance reached Switzerland’s mountain redoubt before dawn on Sunday, stepping off a government aircraft at Emmen Air Base outside Lucerne at 5:59 a.m. local time to open what he described as the first formal round of negotiations since the United States and Iran signed an interim peace agreement last week — and to confront, almost immediately, the twin crises threatening to unravel it.
Telecom land-grab bill stalls in Senate as lawmakers warn it threatens constitutional property rights
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: A sweeping overhaul of Pakistan’s telecommunications laws has run into fierce parliamentary resistance, with the Senate standing committee demanding a 45-day
Power-sharing deal gives PPP chief minister post in GB as PML-N takes governor’s office
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s two dominant governing parties have agreed to form a coalition government in the northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, extending to the high-altitude region the same power-sharing arrangement that has underpinned their alliance in Islamabad since 2024’s federal elections.
PM Sharif, army chief Munir join fragile US-Iran diplomacy in Bürgenstock
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, the country’s army chief and chief of defence forces, flew to Switzerland through the night on Saturday for technical-level talks between the United States and Iran due on Sunday — the first formal negotiations since a memorandum of understanding ending nearly four months of conflict between Washington and Tehran was signed on 18 June.
Pakistan says US-Iran technical talks set for Sunday in Switzerland
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Saturday that technical-level talks between the United States and Iran will be held Sunday in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, as the two sides prepare to begin working through the details of a landmark peace framework signed earlier this week despite Tehran reimposing its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day over Israel’s continuing strikes on Lebanon
Four PTI leaders jailed for decade over May 9 riots as Qureshi walks free
LAHORE: Four senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been sentenced to ten years in prison each by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, while former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was acquitted on Saturday in the latest verdict to emerge from the country’s sweeping judicial reckoning over the May 9, 2023 riots.
Interior minister Naqvi returns to Tehran to shore up fragile US-Iran peace as Israeli strikes cast shadow
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi flew to Iran on Saturday for a fresh round of high-stakes diplomacy, arriving in Mashhad as the fragile US-Iran peace deal he helped broker entered its most sensitive and consequential phase yet.