GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Election Commission has ordered the suspension of final election results across all constituencies until re-polling is conducted at 26 polling stations spread across five seats, throwing the outcome of Saturday’s regional assembly vote into uncertainty even as the Pakistan Peoples Party held a commanding lead.
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Pakistan sets June 12 for budget as provincial revenue standoff clouds NEC meeting
ISLAMABAD: The government plans to present its federal budget for fiscal year 2026-27 to the National Assembly on June 12, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said Tuesday, as Islamabad moved to lock in a date after weeks of delays driven by coalition friction and a deepening dispute with provincial governments over revenue sharing.
Pakistani and Lebanese military chiefs hold talks in Rawalpindi amid regional tensions
RAWALPINDI: The commanders of Pakistan and Lebanon’s armed forces met on Tuesday at Pakistan’s military headquarters to discuss deepening defence cooperation and the deteriorating security landscape across the Middle East, a meeting that came as Islamabad has sought to position itself as a diplomatic interlocutor in the widening conflict between Israel and Iran.
Pakistan warns Taliban at UN: ‘Window for course correction is narrowing’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations issued an unambiguous warning to the Afghan Taliban on Monday, telling the Security Council that Islamabad’s patience was running out and that military action targeting terrorist infrastructure on Afghan soil would continue for as long as the Taliban refused to act against militant groups that Pakistan holds responsible for more than 1,200 deaths last year alone.
Rift in PTI deepens as 30 rebel lawmakers threaten to block KP budget to press for Imran Khan’s release
PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf faces a deepening internal rebellion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where more than 30 members of the provincial assembly have coalesced into a dissident bloc demanding aggressive action to secure the release of the party’s imprisoned founder, Imran Khan — and threatening to bring down the provincial government’s budget if their demands are not met.
Shops shut and streets empty in Azad Kashmir as banned group defies crackdown with long march to Muzaffarabad
RAWALAKOT: The streets of this mountain city in Azad Jammu and Kashmir were quiet on Monday under a second consecutive day of shuttered shops and absent traffic — an uneasy stillness that followed weekend clashes that left eleven people dead, including four law enforcement officers, and that a banned political committee was seeking to channel into a region-wide general strike and protest march.
Pakistan’s budget teeters as centre seeks to claw back Rs1.2 trillion from provinces
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s budget preparations descended into open disarray on Monday as the government postponed a key economic planning meeting for the third consecutive time, struggled to win International Monetary Fund backing for a controversial revenue-sharing manoeuvre, and faced a provincial revolt over a demand to claw back more than Rs1.2 trillion that would otherwise flow to the country’s four provinces under a constitutional formula.
Ruling allies strike budget deal, but date remains in flux
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s two principal ruling coalition partners reached broad agreement on Monday on the framework for the country’s federal budget, with the Pakistan Peoples Party signalling it would back the fiscal plan put forward by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government — even as uncertainty lingered over when the budget would actually be presented.
Pakistan receives second spot LNG cargo since Iran war upended regional energy trade
KARACHI: A liquefied natural gas tanker docked at Karachi’s Port Qasim on Sunday, marking only the second spot cargo the country has received since the Iran war severed regional energy supply chains and effectively closed one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints.
PPP wins most seats in Gilgit-Baltistan vote but needs allies to govern
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling coalition partner, the Pakistan Peoples Party, won the most seats in an election in the northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday but fell short of a majority, leaving independent candidates with the power to determine who governs a region that sits at the heart of Beijing’s signature infrastructure push into South Asia.