Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto arrived in Islamabad on Monday for a two-day official visit to Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $1.

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Monday cautioned India against any “delusion or miscalculation” and warned, “Next time, Pakistan’s response will be even swifter and more intense”.

Lahore - Transporters called off a Punjab-wide strike on Monday after talks with the provincial government representatives.

Peshawar - Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi on Monday, visited the Peshawar Police Lines and formally handed over newly-procured bullet-proof vehicles, modern weapons, and other security gadgets to the police force.

Peshawar - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control, Syed Fakhar Jehan, has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is the most popular political party in the country, firmly rooted among the poor and middle-class communities.

Peshawar - A weekly review meeting on governance affairs held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Shahab Ali Shah, which was attended by concerned administrative secretaries and senior officials.

Peshawar - Special Assistant to the Chief Minister (SACM) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Information and Public Relations, Shafi Jan on Monday said that International Anti-Corruption Day is observed worldwide every year on December 9, reminding us that corruption is not merely a violation of the law but an assault on the nation’s.

As political tensions continue to escalate in the wake of a fiery press conference by the Pakistan Army’s spokesperson targeting former prime minister Imran Khan, the PTI parliamentary party on Monday said that excluding the party founder from politics would only weaken the political system. After the joint parliamentary party meeting held in the federal capital, the PTI leaders discussed the recent political developments concerning the former ruling party and the ban on meetings with Imran. The meeting was attended by PTI lawmakers from both houses of parliament, including party chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Barrister Ali Zafar, Ali Muhammad Khan and MNA Shahid Kattak. Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who is the PTI nominee for the National Assembly opposition leader slot, also participated. Barrister Syed Ali Zafar told Dawn that the meeting discussed the current political situation and recent developments, including the unannounced ban on meetings with Imran. He said ...

Minister of State for Law and Justice Barrister Aqeel Malik on Monday stated that Pakistan did not benefit from the PTI “project”, arguing that it aimed to destroy the country. In a blistering press conference on Friday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry assailed PTI founder and ex-premier Imran Khan for creating and spreading an “anti-army” rhetoric, stating that such narratives were now out of the realm of politics and had become a “national security threat”. The PTI emphatically deplored the “ridiculous” remarks by the military spokesperson, saying the party founder was “not a security threat” and lamented the weakening of democracy in the country following the passage of recent constitutional amendments. Speaking on Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’, the minister highlighted that during its tenure, the PTI government “ran a campaign against the country, writing to the IMF and lobbying US politicians”. “Has the PTI taken a single beneficial step for Pakist...

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Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed authorities to implement comprehensive digital surveillance outside all schools and educational institutions across the province to enhance security and closely monitor sensitive locations.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Monday reported a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of its eastern Aomori prefecture. The JMA reported that the epicentre of the quake was registered off the coast of Aomori at a depth of 80 kilometres at 11:15pm local time (7:15pm PKT). On Japan’s 1-7 scale of seismic intensity, the tremor registered as an “upper 6” in Aomori prefecture — a quake strong enough to make it impossible to keep standing or move without crawling. In such tremors, most heavy furniture can collapse and wall tiles and windowpanes are damaged in many buildings. Tsunami warnings were issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, and tsunamis from 20 to 70 cm (7 to 27 inches) high were observed at several ports, JMA said. Japanese public broadcaster NHK World reported that a tsunami warning had been issued 10 minutes later, urging citizens along the northeast coast to evacuate. Waves were estimated to reach a height of three metres. There have been no reports of casualties, bu...

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