QUETTA: Four policemen were injured on Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in the Dasht area of Mastung district, adjacent to Quetta. According to police, unidentified assailants had planted the explosive device along the Mian Ghandi Link Road near Pir Wali. The blast occurred as a police vehicle transporting prisoners from Dasht…
Iran renewed attacks on the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, causing oil loading at the port of Fujairah to be at least partly halted after the third attack in four days. FILE IMAGE: PIXABAY Oil prices rose on Friday, paring sharp losses from the previous session, after Hezbollah rejected a new Lebanon ceasefire proposal and…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting on the gemstone sector in the federal capital. PHOTO: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday noted that Pakistan had been blessed with abundant natural resources, including precious stones, and stressed that the sector offered strong potential to increase exports using local resources. The premier chaired a…
Joker is the uninhibited madness of a fractured, two-faced world order, manifesting itself as a weeping clown. The Joker is, by design, a villain beyond comprehension; more ‘it’ than ‘he’. PHOTO: IMDB You would think that Joker has no earthly reason to exist as anything other than a gimmick aimed at making profits off a highly…
Indian envoy repeats allegations made by Afghan Taliban regarding an alleged strike on a hospital in Kabul Pakistan’s Counsellor Saima Saleem speaking at the UNSC. PHOTO: X Pakistan on Wednesday hit back at India’s allegations at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), with Pakistani diplomat Saima Saleem slamming New Delhi as being “a state that…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s inflation is expected to edge higher in April as the Ministry of Finance projects it in the range of 8-9%, as supply chain disruptions and global uncertainty continue to exert pressure on prices despite signs of macroeconomic stability. In its Monthly Economic Update and Outlook for April 2026, the ministry warned that inflationary…
ISLAMABAD: The peace agreement between the United States and Iran is set to be signed at the historic and scenic Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland, instead of Geneva, on Friday (tomorrow). A special ceremony is will be attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir,…
Oil prices climbed on Wednesday, moving away from a seven-week low touched in the previous session, after the US military launched new strikes against Iran and as market data showed another large draw in US crude stocks. Brent futures rose 66 cents, or 0.7%, to $92.11 a barrel at 0406 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 60 cents,…
A pumpjack, used to help lift oil from a well, in the Permian basin near Midland, Texas, U.S., October 8, 2025 PHOTO: REUTERS Oil prices jumped more than 3% on Thursday after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted a US airbase in response to a U.S. attack near Bandar Abbas airport. Brent crude futures rose $3.51, or 3.72%,…
Urges India to vacate occupied territories and reverse unilateral actions in IIOJK Foreign Office. Photo: File Pakistan on Friday categorically rejected India’s baseless remarks regarding the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), describing the outlandish claims as part of New Delhi’s “carefully choreographed attempt to conflate fact with fiction”. The statement came after India, in a…