Reporting from the federal capital by The Thursday Times' Islamabad bureau.
The interior minister told MNAs that countries want Pakistan’s 70,000 official blue passports reduced to 25,000 before granting travel concessions, and that the green passport’s standing is improving.
At Türkiye’s national day event in Islamabad, the prime minister thanked Ankara for standing by Pakistan during Marka-i-Haq and invited Turkish investors to Karachi’s Erdogan economic zone.
The interior minister said JUI-F leaders had urged the government to impose governor’s rule and “rid us of” the PTI, and denied that his trip to Tehran was about a defence pact.
Balakrishnan will hold talks with Ishaq Dar, call on Pakistan’s leadership and exchange a disaster-management accord, a year before Singapore takes over as chair of ASEAN.
Sulaiman Isa Khan, the elder son of Imran Khan, has joined X under his father’s tribal surname, and his first post was viewed more than 750,000 times.
Asif said Field Marshal Asim Munir went to Tehran “as a messenger of peace” and mocked Fazl’s decade as Kashmir Committee chairman as “a free ride”.
An EVA Air flight to Vienna crossed Pakistan early on Thursday. Taiwan says it suspects China was behind the brief closure.
An inquiry ordered by PM Shehbaz Sharif found the contract raised the cost of jabs for pilgrims to about Rs4,500 from Rs1,250.
The JUI-F chief told the National Assembly that Ishaq Dar called him on October 11 to say the cabinet wanted governor’s rule “at all costs”.
Tariq Fazal Chaudhry also announced a Rs160 billion three-phase package for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, focused on its 12 worst-hit districts.
