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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said rising terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “must be stopped” at any cost. He made the remarks during a meeting with Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Amir Muqam in Islamabad, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s O...
Security forces eliminated thirteen terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan, state media reported on Wednesday, citing security sources. Pakistan TV said security forces “killed 13 Fitna al-Khawarij terrorists in an IBO in North Waziristan, as operation...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) is on the verge of another crisis as supplies of free medicines for inpatients and other items might be discontinued due to procurement issues. The situation has become worse as not a single tender has been signed during the last six weeks, a ...
IT was a Friday afternoon in May 2019. State Bank of Pakistan Governor Tariq Bajwa was in Islamabad with the IMF mission, flanked by his technical team I led. Unbeknownst to him, his successor was already in the country. By evening, Bajwa had resigned. The finance secretary at the time told me a new...
THE talks between the government and the opposition were doomed from the outset, even though the fact that the two sides sat face to face at the negotiating table was a positive sign. The meeting took place under the shadow of the PTI’s threatened long march to Islamabad, while the government brandi...
WITH confirmation that members of the Makkah Defence Alliance will be deploying their forces to Saudi Arabia, it appears that the kingdom is preparing for a full-scale war with the pro-Iran Houthi Ansarallah movement. Senior civil and military leaders from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye met in R...
US Vice President JD Vance has said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a meaningful reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the country’s seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations. Vance, a lon...
ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) adjourned the indictment proceedings against lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her spouse, Hadi Ali Chattha, until Wednesday (today) after they could not be produced due to a power outage. ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra was scheduled to frame charges against...
ISLAMABAD: Projecting Pakistan’s economic growth at 3.8 per cent and fiscal deficit at 3.5pc for the current fiscal year, the World Bank on Tuesday said the country was home to almost half of the extremely poor population in the entire Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan-Pakistan (Menaap) regi...
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale commercial use of Jammu & Kashmir State land, including construction and operation of marriage halls and other businesses by illegal occupants came under scrutiny on Tuesday as a Senate subcommittee ordered sealing of unauthorised structures and sought five-year record of rent...
A roughly two-hour drive east from Peshawar brings us to Attock, on the banks of the Indus. On the Punjab side, the inescapable Attock fortress, an imposing 16th century structure, dominates the relative lowlands of Khairabad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district — the venue of PTI’s renewe...
• Ben Gvir ‘gleefully’ drives bulldozer at demolition site; residents not even allowed to gather belongings • Settlers attack photojournalists in occupied West Bank JERUSALEM: Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday demolished a five-storey residential building in annexed east Jerusalem, which was home to abo...
