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Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Sunday that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had agreed to sign a written agreement and submit an implementation plan within 72 hours that mainly covered counterterrorism. The interior minister’s announcement came hours after a second round of marathon talks b...
The four Pakistanis who were injured during a security operation to recover a hijacked oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, along with the remains of three others who lost their lives in the episode, have departed Addis Ababa and are expected to reach Karachi Sunday evening. “Pakistan’s ambassadors ...
During the 1970s and 1980s, a dramatic political shift permanently altered the geopolitical topography of the Middle East and the broader Muslim world. Islamism gained momentum as secular nationalism declined. It was a collapse accelerated by the defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Is...
ISLAMABAD: Robbers and burglars stole cash and valuables worth over Rs34 million in eight incidents in the capital, police said. In the first incident, burglars stole priceless heirlooms and antiques belonging to the family of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, worth Rs20 million, from the house of Prince Bah...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to outsource 13 express passenger trains, including Pak Business, and directed its officers to complete the process by December this year. The department has also accelerated efforts to make all faulty (dummy) wagons fit for operation while taking actio...
BACKA TOPOLA: The Republic of Ireland’s press conference on Saturday on the eve of their second Nations League match against Israel in Serbia was cut short as head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson fielded questions from Israeli journalists. Ireland beat Israel 3-0 in Hungary in their first match on Tuesday...
WITNESSES testified that a senior banker sketched private parts on the glass of his desk, asked a woman colleague to name them, and threatened to tear off her clothes if she wore a particular outfit again. Another officer made indecent remarks about her attire before colleagues. The ombudsperson fou...
IT is difficult to imagine a single small gesture reducing decades-old hostility between two archrivals. Yet, such a moment was witnessed recently when Alok Dimri, India’s national coordinator for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, visited Islamabad for a meeting. Talking to the state media, he ...
A SLOWDOWN in inflation may offer some statistical relief to the government, but prices of everyday essentials remain substantially higher than they were two years ago. The apparent contradiction lies in the difference between what inflation measures and what consumers experience when they enter the...
KARACHI: As the world continues to grapple with uncertain oil prices, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is unlikely to meet its FY27 mid-term inflation target of 5-7 per cent, financial experts and analysts said. Consumer Price Index-based inflation of 10.3 per cent in September clearly indicates tha...
• UN agency says over 60pc of citizens unable to afford healthy diet• Calls for overhaul of agrifood system ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has emphasised the urgent need to transform Pakistan’s agrifood system to improve access to healthy diets, a critic...
• Houthis say Saudi aircraft carried out 26 strikes on Yemen capital, claim attack on Aramco facility in south of Riyadh• Trump’s top national security aides meet secretly on Yemen, Iran SANAA: Fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis showed no signs of abating on Saturday, with the Houthis...
