D.I. KHAN/PESHAWAR: A row between the Centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on loadshedding that had ostensibly settled last month resurrected on Wednesday after KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur issued another ultimatum, telling the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to reduce outages on all grids to 12 hours a day. Pesco is among those distribution companies whose power losses are as high …
ISLAMABAD: For the first time since nuclear tests by arch-rivals India and Pakistan in 1998, India has been reported by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) to possess more nuclear warheads than Pakistan, albeit by a slim margin of two warheads. The report’s findings, released during the Eid holidays, come at a time of heightened concern over the escalating global …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said India has no right to object to the references made to Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan-China joint statement issued in Beijing after talks between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang on June 8, and reiterated it is an established fact that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally-recognised disputed territory. “It is an …
GUJAR KHAN: Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Tuesday said founder PTI chairman Imran Khan and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, have been facing incarceration for long due to poor strategy of the current PTI leadership. He was talking to journalists at his residence in Ladhar near Dina, Mr Fawad Chaudhry said that the PTI leadership had badly …
PYONGYANG: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a deal with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on Wednesday that includes a mutual defence pledge, one of Russia’s most significant moves in Asia for years that Kim said amounted to an “alliance”. Putin’s pledge overhauls Russia’s entire post-Soviet policy on North Korea just as the United States and its Asian allies try to …
NEW YORK: Pakistan has called on the United Nations for a “concerted campaign” to recover all weapons from terrorist groups, such as the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Speaking at the UN’s Fourth Review Conference of the Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) on Tuesday, Ambassador Munir Akram expressed Pakistan’s “grave concern over the acquisition and use of modern …
ISLAMABAD: Anti-Terrorism Special Court-1 Islamabad JudgeAbdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain on Saturday rejected the police request for 10 days of physical custody of PTI’s leader and activists, arrested on Friday and sent them to jail on judicial remand. The Kohsar police produced the accused in the court of Judge Abdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain with request that they snatched anti-riot shield kit …
NEW YORK: Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first in their final game of the T20 World Cup after the Green Shirts were knocked out in the group stages of the mega event. Pakistan, the 2009 champions and runners-up in 2007 and 2022, lost their first two Group A fixtures. A stunning super-over humiliation at the hands of the United States was …
MANSEHRA: The Jamiat Ulema-Islam-F on Saturday alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was spreading false propaganda against its ideology and central leadership. “The electoral defeat of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and the victory of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf nominee Shahzada Gustasab Khan in the NA-15 constituency is the result of our political strategy,” JUI-F leader Mufti Kifayatullahtold reporters here. Accompanied by other …
LAHORE: A state prosecutor on Saturday said in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) that the attack on the Jinnah House, which also serves as the residence of Lahore’s corps commander, was carried out as part of an organised conspiracy. Special Prosecutor Rao Abdul Jabbar argued that the attack on the Jinnah House on May 9 was a serious crime. He concluded his arguments …