Asad Hashim

In­dia and Pak­istan have both stressed the im­por­tance of Rus­sia and Ukraine de-es­ca­lat­ing hos­til­i­ties.

Im­ran Khan ex­press­es ‘re­gret’ that con­flict was not avert­ed as Rus­sia launch­es full-scale in­va­sion of Ukraine.

Za­hir Jaf­fer was con­vict­ed of mur­der­ing 27-year-old Noor Mukadam af­ter she re­fused to mar­ry him.

First con­voy car­ry­ing food aid be­ing al­lowed to pass through coun­try to ad­dress Afghan hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis.

Pak­istan and Afghanistan are the last coun­tries where po­lio re­mains en­dem­ic.

Bor­der pa­trols from both coun­tries have come un­der at­tack in spo­radic skir­mish­es along the rough­ly 750km-long bor­der.

At least four sol­diers and a civil­ian killed in two raids overnight on se­cu­ri­ty posts in south­west­ern province.

To di­ver­si­fy ex­ports be­yond tex­tiles, Pak­istan is of­fer­ing firms in­cen­tives and ap­ply­ing pres­sure to step up ex­ports.

An­a­lysts say talks be­tween Tal­iban and US and Eu­ro­pean of­fi­cials im­ply a ‘de fac­to’ recog­ni­tion of the Tal­iban gov’t.

Mir Shak­il-ur-Rehman was ar­rest­ed over al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion in a real es­tate deal in­volv­ing the pur­chase of land.