KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan requires an annual investment of $40 billion to $50 billion until 2050 to meet its looming climate change challenges, a former head of the country’s central bank says. Former State Bank of Pakistan Governor Shamshad Akhtar said at a two-day international climate change conference, “Breathe Pa...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – With at least 685 fatalities, 2024 was a deadly year for Pakistani security forces, the Center for Research and Security Studies said in a report. Security forces killed 934 suspected militants. The violence took the heaviest toll on the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, followed by southwestern Balochistan provi...
Bangladesh is ramping up trade with Pakistan in apparent retaliation to India, signaling a shift in regional dynamics. The government is encouraging importers to source goods from Pakistan, as seen with the arrival of a Panama-flagged cargo ship at Chittagong port on Sunday. The ship carried 811 containers of industrial materials, garment raw ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least five people were killed and three injured in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to local media reports. The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed the clash in a statement posted on X, claiming that its forces conducted attacks inside Pakistani territory targeting “miscreants’ hideouts.&...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for improved relations with Afghanistan and urged Kabul to take action against violent elements living on their soil. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting, Premier Sharif said the Afghan interim government should take practical actions to eliminate militant hideouts on its s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration has claimed that at least 46 people have been killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Ba...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decried the latest US sanctions on four local firms for their alleged involvement in the country’s ballistic missile program, asserting that the move has “no justification.” “The sanctions placed upon our National Development Complex (NDC) and other entities have no ju...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has rejected claims by a senior US official regarding its ballistic missile program, labeling them as baseless and counterproductive to bilateral ties. In a statement, Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that the allegations are “unfounded, devoid of rationality and sense of his...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – People in Bangladesh would have to wait a year or more to elect a new government, the country’s transitional leader said as the South Asian nation marked its 54th “Victory Day” on Monday. “I have repeatedly appealed to you to complete all the major reforms and hold the election. However, d...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – A Pakistani court has indicted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case related to the attack on army headquarters last year. Khan, and around 100 workers and leaders of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, pleaded not guilty. According to the prosecution, hundreds of PTI supporters stormed the ar...
