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• Pakistan-Afghanistan disagreement cited as main reason• Islamabad maintains cross-border terror attacks rose despite peace talks with Taliban• ICC unseals warrants for Afghan ministers over anti-women actions ISLAMABAD: The eighth edition of the Moscow Format regional consultations on Afghanistan ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ongoing talks with a visiting staff mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are set to conclude on a positive note later this week, paving the way for the disbursement of about $1.2 billion under two concurrent programmes — the $7bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and...
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye have agreed to deploy military forces and capabilities rapidly in the kingdom, the Foreign Office (FO) on Monday following an emergency meeting of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement in Riyadh. In a statement on social media platform X, the FO said Pakistan’s delega...
The government on Monday increased the price of petrol by Re0.88 per litre, but reduced that of high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs1.88 per litre. Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs393.64 per litre, while HSD will cost Rs397.76 per litre. The government continues to levy Rs114 per litre in t...
The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan Taliban education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government’s restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad N...
ISLAMABAD: The National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) on Monday said Pakistan had reported its sixth polio case in the ongoing year. The fresh case was reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, according to a NEOC statement. The affected child was a seven-year-ol...
The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan Taliban education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government’s restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad N...
The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government’s restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad Nadeem, m...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Monday resumed PTI’s march, leading a convoy from from Karak to Kohat where the protesters will spend the night. The opposition has gone ahead with its march despite warnings from the Centre, which has vowed to prevent any gatherings in Islamabad. T...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani students intending to go abroad for medical or dental education will no longer be required to have passed the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT), the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) announced on Monday. In a notice shared on X, the PMDC said the decisio...
Sahibzada Farhan will lead Pakistan in the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka, while Shaheen Shah Afridi has retained the ODI captaincy for the subsequent tri-series involving England and Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday. The T20Is will be played at the Rawalpin...
Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq on Monday said that terrorism remained at the core of Afghanistan’s problems, reaffirming that Pakistan would continue to take “all appropriate measures” for ensuring the safety of its citizens, in accordance with international law. Sa...
