Says Pakistan stays engaged in diplomacy Lauds Oman’s role in promoting peace, stability Rejects India’s criti Foreign Office. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday it was part of regional diplomatic efforts to resolve standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, describing the crisis as key to easing wider tensions between Iran and the US. The…

. LONDON: Hundreds of members of the British Kashmiri diaspora and political activists gathered outside the Indian High Commission to mark the seventh anniversary of India’s decision to revoke the special constitutional status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), with speakers describing the move as a violation of the Kashmiri people’s right to…

Day-long search along four kilometres stretch of Nullah Leh ends without leads; locals stage protest RAWALPINDI: Following a day-long search for a six-year-old girl who went missing near Committee Chowk which bore no fruit, the police have registered a kidnapping case and officially launched an investigation. Earlier in the day, when the girl’s father reported…

ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s general elections will enter their third and final phase on August 10 as polling is set to take place in Poonch Division on 11 general seats in what is expected to be the decisive contest for government formation in the new Legislative Assembly. The outcome of the final phase will…

. Rescue personnel carry the bodies of deceased climbers upon arrival at a military base in Skardu ISLAMABAD’: The bodies of five international climbers, including renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja, were flown to Skardu by a Pakistan Army helicopter on Thursday after one of the most challenging recovery operations on Broad Peak, as rescuers continued…

Energy (Power Division) Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari and Iranian Ambassador Dr Reza Amiri Moghaddam in Islamabad. Photo APP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to strengthen energy cooperation, with work on a second cross-border transmission line expected to begin soon and discussions underway to expand the current 100 MW electricity supply arrangement, officials said…

David Ellison makes allegation ahead of case hearing, rubbishes litigants’ concerns about market share WASHINGTON: Paramount CEO David Ellison said Tuesday that the legal battle over his proposed multibillion-dollar takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery was fueled by politics rather than concerns over market share. His remarks in an opinion piece published in The New York…

. The incarceration of Imran Khan, in defiance of the jail manual, is now becoming a source of irritation and embarrassment. The former PM’s sons, Kasim and Sulaiman, have once again flagged the issue as they went on to elucidate on international media that their father is being held “incommunicado”, and that the orders of…

. The writer is an academic and researcher. He is also the author of Development, Poverty, and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge Barely a week after the recovery of the final bodies from the Sorange coal mine near Quetta, Pakistan’s latest mining disaster is already fading from the headlines. Yet the deaths of 34…