Pakistan

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Deficit lowest in 10 years; provinces get higher water shares for Rabi season

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CM says she won't apologise for defending province's interests; PPP warns coalition may face turbulence

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PAC sub-committee directs ministry to submit a written response

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Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said that on arrival in Islamabad from Malaysia, he had just spoken over the phone with former Senator Mushtaq through Pakistan’s Ambassador in Amman.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday that former Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) senator Mushtaq Ahmad, who was detained by Israel last week after it intercepted a flotilla of boats carrying aid for Gaza, had arrived at the Pakistan embassy in Amman, Jordan and was in “good health and high spirits”, adding that he would return on October 9. Ahmad led the Pakistani delegation on the 45-vessel Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which left Spain last month to break Israel’s blockade of aid to Gaza with activists and politicians, including Greta Thunberg, on board. However, as it approached Gaza, Israeli forces intercepted it, detaining the activists on board before deporting them. In a post on social media platform X, Dar said, “I am pleased to confirm that former senator Mushtaq has been released and is now safely with [the] Pakistan embassy in Amman. He is in good health and high spirits.” He said that the embassy stood ready to facilitate his return to Pakistan at his wish. “[I] am pleased to e...

The United States will supply Pakistan with advanced air-to-air missiles under a modified agreement between defence contractor Raytheon and the US Air Force, marking a renewed phase of defence cooperation between the two countries.

Four government officials, including two high school teachers and two workers from the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), were allegedly abducted from different localities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, officials said on Tuesday. Per the police, the teachers were “abducted” from GHS Zindi Musa Khan in Bannu’s Mandati Naika Zyarat area, which falls within the limits of Hoid police station. “The first incident occurred within the limits of Hoid police station, which is under threat of militants,” District Police Officer (DPO) of Bannu Saleem Abbas Kulachi told Dawn.com. “In the past few months, the police station in Hoid has been attacked several times by militants.” DPO Kulachi added that unknown armed men had taken the school teachers to unidentified locations. Among the abductees were the headmaster of the school, who was a resident of Nekam Kaki, as well as a senior school teacher, who was a resident of Bannu, Bannu police spokesperson Kashif Nawaz told Dawn.com. Nawaz added that both teachers ...

Decision aimed at protecting public health

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Ghulam Ali Talpur goes ballistic over poor public services in Badin

After Karachi, traders in Hyd plan sharp hike in milk prices from Rs220 per litre to Rs280

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