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On World Water Day, leaders highlight water scarcity, gender inequality and dam projects to secure future supplies ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has called on India to immediately restore full implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), in line with international obligations. In a message to mark World Water Day, he reiterated Pakistan’s strong condemnation […]

Prime Minister Shehbaz chairs a meeting on austerity measures. PHOTO: SCREENSHOT ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday evening, the eve of Eidul Fitr, that he had rejected advice to further increase fuel prices and that the federal government would shoulder the burden itself. Two weeks ago, the government sharply increased diesel and petrol

The suspects reportedly confessed to carrying out several low-intensity explosions on railway tracks in interior Sindh. KARACHI: The Sindh Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday foiled a major terror plot in Karachi by arresting five suspected terrorists belonging to the banned Baloch Republican Guard (BRG) who were planning to blow up railway tracks. A press release

The department’s “fact-check” statement said no violations of the temporary pause occurred along the western border. A Pakistani soldier watches over the border fence with Afghanistan. PHOTO:AFP/FILE The Ministry of Information on Friday rejected the Afghan Taliban’s allegation that Pakistan violated the temporary truce, calling it “frivolous.” In an article on The pause, the ministry

He noted that Pakistan currently had a relatively better trajectory in its bilateral relations with the United States. DG Rangers Sindh, Major General Muhammad Saeed. PHOTO: FILE PHOTO ISLAMABAD: Former Chief of the General Staff (CGS) Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Saeed said there was an “intense debate in Pakistan” over a recent statement by US Director