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KYIV: US President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to what he described as an “energy ceasefire”, hours after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky had pushed back against US pressure for a unilateral end to strikes on Russian refineries. In a social media post, Trump...
• Pakistan Textile Exporters Association cites weak Western demand, higher freight, rising production costs • Exporters seek 6-8pc Duty Drawback of Local Taxes and Levies support, clearance of outstanding refunds • Industry says announced 4.5pc Export Finance Scheme rate yet to be implemented ISLAM...
A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, killing one person — a Pakistani resident — and wounding 11 others, a day after another deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced authorities to suspend operations there. Saturday’s attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more...
PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD: A couple of hours after the imposition of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was announced on Sunday, the PTI claimed that its now-dysfunctional chief minister Sohail Afridi, who was leading the party’s protest march towards Islamabad, had been taken into custody along with some o...
KARACHI: The Karachi commissioner on Saturday imposed Section 144 in the metropolis from Oct 20 to prevent protests and demonstrations from inconveniencing the public and causing a “deterioration of the law and order situation”. Section 144 is a provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) whi...
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman — who was being cast as the man who could defuse tensions between the Centre and the PTI until Sunday — has accused the government of reneging on its commitments amid his efforts for mediating between the two parties. Both side...
A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, a day after another attack claimed by the Yemeni group killed at least a dozen people and forced authorities to suspend operations at the facility. Saturday’s attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, was a sharp es...
Maaz Sadaqat hit a blistering 96 before Imran Randhawa’s miserly spell helped Pakistan thrash Sri Lanka by 82 runs in the second Twenty20 International and seal the three-match series for the hosts here at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Both Maaz and Imran were able to make a match-winnin...
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman — who was being cast as the man who could defuse tensions between the Centre and the PTI until Sunday — has accused the government of reneging on its commitments amid his efforts for mediating between the two parties. Both side...
Riyadh airport came under fresh attack on Sunday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis said, a day after a strike blamed on the group killed 12 people. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki said an unidentified projectile struck Terminal 4 at King Khalid International Airport...
Back in 2024, the political future of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and perhaps of Pakistan itself, looked like a coin toss. There were two broad possibilities. One was a grand political settlement, perhaps involving a period of exile for Imran Khan, with the United Kingdom replacing Saudi Arabia as the prefe...
At least 139 migrants, including at least 15 children, have died and around 84 are missing after a boat carrying more than 300 people capsized while sailing from Djibouti to Yemen, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday. The boat, carrying 305 people, capsi...
