ISLAMABAD, OCT 5: Deputy PM Ishaq Dar, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, will attend the meeting of Strategic Political and Defence Committee (SPDC), established under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, today (Monday). In a statement, the Foreign Office (FO) said the meeting will also be attended by the respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs, ministers of defence, as well as chiefs of general staff of Saudi Arabia and Turkiye. The meeting will discuss the latestRead More

ISLAMABAD: PTI leaders on Monday declared that reconciliation between their party and the government was not possible without including incarcerated party founder Imran Khan in the dialogue process. Narrating the opposition’s stance on why the talks with the government failed over the weekend, PTI’s secretary general, Salman Akram Raja, presented his party’s demand that Imran be included in any future political dialogue. “Only [Imran] has the capability to bridge the gulf that has developed between the state and the nation,” Raja said during the press conference held at Khyber PakhtunkhwaRead More

RAWALPINDI, OCT 5 /DNA/ – Director Excise, Taxation and Narcotics, Rawalpindi Division, Nauman Khalid, has said that the Excise Department Rawalpindi Division has shown significant improvement in revenue collection during the ongoing fiscal year 2026-27 compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. Talking to journalists, Nauman Khalid said that the department had so far collected Rs3.973 billion (Rs3 billion 97 crore 31 lakh 91 thousand) during the current fiscal year. During the corresponding period last year, the department had collected Rs3.154 billion, showing an increase of more thanRead More

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Monday ordered authorities to produce jailed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan at the next hearing in the Judicial Complex attack case. ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra conducted the hearing on the case pertaining to an incident that took place when the former prime minister visited the Judicial Complex in Islamabad to seek bail in multiple cases in 2023. A huge crowd of PTI supporters assembled at the location, dismantled security barriers, vandalised the complex’s entrance gate, andRead More

ISLAMABAD, OCT 4: The PTI on Sunday asserted that the main reason for the breakdown of its talks with the Centre was that the latter refused to incorporate terms regarding access to incarcerated party founder Imran Khan into a proposed agreement. Hours-long negotiations yesterday between an opposition delegation comprising the PTI and Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Ayin-i-Pakistan (TTAP), and a joint team of the government and PPP, ended in a deadlock. While the federal government blamed the PTI for the failure of negotiations, the main opposition party denied the allegations and claimed that theRead More