ISLAMABAD: Azerbaijan’s Minister for Defence Industry, Vugar Mustafayev, met with Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Friday to strengthen bilateral ties between Pakistan and Azerbaijan. The meeting focused on enhancing cooperation in various sectors, including trade, energy, defence, and investment. During the meeting, Prime Minister Sharif expressed satisfaction with the current trajectory of Pakistan-Azerbaijan relations, particularly in the …

ISLAMABAD: PTI MNA Junaid Akbar has been chosen by party founder Imran Khan to replace Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur as the party’s president in KP, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said on Saturday. A day ago, Akbar was elected chairman of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) unopposed, filling a position left vacant since the …

RAWALPINDI: Four terrorists were killed, including two ring leaders, during an operation carried out by security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, the military’s media wing said in a statement issued on Saturday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security personnel conducted the intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Khyber district’s Bagh area, where they killed four terrorists and injured …

ISLAMABAD: Amid a strong protest by the PTI-led opposition and a walkout by journalists from the press gallery, a controversial bill seeking to amend the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) was presented in the Senate on Friday. In total, four bills were tabled in the House and referred to standing committees following the suspension of the question hour on …

ISLAMABAD: Despite the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) refusal to attend the fourth round of talks with the government, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has called the next meeting of the dialogue committee on Jan 28. At the same time, the government has toughened its stance, warning that it would no longer consider PTI’s demands regarding the formation of judicial commissions …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakist­­an Peoples Party (PPP) has demanded that the government hold local government polls in Punjab and Islamabad, provide relief to Balochistan’s flood-affected people and farmers. The party made these dem­ands in its Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting, presided over by its chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, on Friday. The CEC meeting was held amid Mr Bilawal’s reservations that the government …

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday said that business tycoon Malik Riaz will not be able to evade accountability in the cases registered against him, stressing that neither the judicial system nor any political force would be able to assist him. His statement comes after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cautioned the public on Tuesday against investing in Riaz’s …

ISLAMABAD: PTI has decided to boycott the fourth round of talks with the government, a day after it announced that party founder Imran Khan issued directions to call off negotiations due to a delay over the formation of judicial commissions. The PTI and the government had been engaged in talks to bring down political temperatures. After two rounds of meetings, …

ISLAMABAD: PTI MNA Junaid Akbar Khan was elected chairman of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on Friday, the NA Secretariat confirmed in a press release. The PAC is among the most powerful parliamentary bodies, with the authority to summon virtually any individual or record from government departments in financial matters. The post has remained vacant since the General Elections …

QUETTA: A former member of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on Friday claimed that the banned militant group brainwashed average citizens into thinking a certain way about Balochistan and resorting to terrorist activities. In 2024, the banned BLA emerged as a key perpetrator of terrorist violence in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Security Report 2024, while the attacks by the …