Rains wreak havoc countrywide

Child among six dead in Karachi, seven killed in Balochistan; four lives lost in K-P A pool of rainwater creates problems in free flow of traffic in Quetta. Photo: PPI ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/QUETTA/PESHAWAR: Torrential rain and severe weather swept across Pakistan on Thursday, leaving devastation in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), killing more than a dozen people … Read more

PSX dips 3,500 points amid risk-off mood

[ PSX witnessed a strong trend-reversal session as the KSE-100 Index surged 1,836 points (+1.01%) to close at 184,175. Photo: Express KARACHI: Stocks came under heavy selling pressure on Thursday as escalating geopolitical tensions and a surge in global oil prices rattled investor sentiment, triggering a broad-based sell-off at the Pakistan Stock Exchange. The benchmark … Read more

Pakistan sees steep fall in terror violence

. ISLAMABAD: Terrorist incidents in Pakistan have witnessed a considerable decline as a result of Operation Ghazab lil-Haq. As a result of the operation, terrorist incidents in March this year decreased by 59 percent compared to last month (February). According to a fact-based report by the renowned research organization, the “Center for Research and Security … Read more

Pakistan denies Afghan policy U-turn

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday confirmed that talks with Afghanistan were ongoing under a trilateral mechanism involving China, but made it clear that there was no change in its counterterrorism posture, with Operation Ghazab Lil Haq continuing without interruption. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, in his weekly news briefing, said Pakistan’s participation in the talks being … Read more