ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been struck from a London insurance market list of high-risk maritime zones, a change the government says will lower shipping costs and strengthen the country’s pitch to global trade and logistics firms.
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AJK assembly condemns ministers’ remarks on Rawalakot unrest, backs truth commission
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed two resolutions addressing the unrest that has gripped Rawalakot and other parts of the region, condemning remarks made by federal ministers on the crisis and throwing its weight behind a proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the violence.
Nadeem battles Glasgow headwind to reach javelin final as defending champion eyes second Commonwealth crown
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Olympic and Commonwealth champion Arshad Nadeem booked his place in Friday’s javelin throw final at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games on Thursday, overcoming blustery conditions at Scotstoun Stadium to progress in seventh position.
Two killed, dozens trapped after gas blast tears through Balochistan coal mine
QUETTA: At least two coal miners have been killed and more than 20 others remain trapped after a methane gas explosion ripped through a privately operated mine in the Sorange area near Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
Pakistan’s governance system has ‘collapsed’, new provinces the only way forward – minister
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister has called on the country’s political parties to reach a consensus on carving out new administrative units, telling a major economic gathering in Islamabad that the system under which the country is currently governed has “collapsed” and cannot deliver the reforms the country desperately needs.
Bhutto-Zardari warns of ‘countdown’ for PML-N government if Kashmir election is stolen
MUZAFFARABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warned that a stolen election in Azad Jammu and Kashmir would set off a “countdown” for the federal government, escalating a rigging row with coalition partner PML-N that has overshadowed the territory’s staggered legislative elections.
Six labourers found shot dead in Balochistan days after mass abduction
QUETTA: The bodies of six kidnapped labourers were recovered in south-western Pakistan on Thursday, four days after gunmen ambushed their vehicle and dragged them away in an attack that has renewed alarm over the deteriorating security situation in Balochistan province.
Pakistan-bound Qatari gas cargo slips through Hormuz amid renewed strikes
KARACHI: A cargo of Qatari liquefied natural gas bound for Pakistan cleared the Strait of Hormuz overnight, the first shipment from the world’s largest LNG exporter to make the transit in nearly three weeks, even as the war between the US and Iran shows no sign of abating.
Pakistan Navy rescues 19 fishermen, including eight Iranians, after engine failure off Gwadar coast
KARACHI: The Pakistan Navy rescued 19 fishermen, including eight Iranian nationals, after their vessel suffered engine failure roughly 120 nautical miles south of Gwadar and was left drifting in worsening monsoon weather, officials said on Thursday.
Pakistan says talks to de-escalate US-Iran conflict ongoing as Washington launches fresh strikes on Tehran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday it was doing its “utmost” to bring the United States and Iran back into talks under a peace framework brokered in Islamabad last month, even as fresh American strikes on Iranian targets underscored how far the two sides remain from any lasting truce.