<p>President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is “getting along well” with Iran, as the two countries began indirect talks via mediators in Doha on Wednesday, in a bid to advance negotiations and ease tensions following <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2011386/after-tit-for-tat-strikes-by-us-and-iran-araghchi-says-any-challenge-to-hormuz-routes-will-increase-tensions">exchanges of fire</a> between the two sides.</p> <p>“The denuclearisation of Iran is moving along well,

<p>PESHAWAR: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Wednesday said that his party was not holding talks with the government at the moment and that matters had not progressed beyond the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2006659">offer of negotiations</a>.</p> <p>Talking to reporters on the premises of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), Gohar said, “It is now the responsibility of those who hold authority to respond to PTI’s offer.”</p> <p>He added that the Leader of the Opposition in the Nat

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Friday paid their respects to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in a US-Israeli strike on February...

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir arrived in Tehran on Friday to attend the funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1976870">assassinated</a> in a US-Israeli strike on February 28, state broadcaster <em>PTV</em> reports.</p> <p>CDF Munir was received by Iranian officials and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who was already present in Tehran, an X post by <em>PTV

<p>QUETTA: Forty people were killed and eight others injured when a Peshawar-bound passenger bus fell into a ravine just as it left the Dhanasar area of Balochistan’s Sherani district and crossed the provincial border into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, officials said.</p> <p>The number of casualties was first shared in a statement by the Balochistan chief minister’s aide for media and political affairs, Shahid Rind, who cited initial reports. It was later also confirmed

<p>LAHORE: A court on Friday granted police five-day physical remand of four suspects arrested for the alleged abduction and sexual assault of two foreign women.</p> <p>On Thursday, police had <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012477/lahore-police-register-case-against-five-suspects-over-abduction-sexual-assault-of-two-foreign-women">booked </a>five suspects on charges of kidnapping for ransom and sexually assaulting two foreign women, who were nationals of the Netherlands and Venezuela. Subse

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday directed a ban on the production and use of substandard syringes to prevent infectious diseases.</p> <p>The directives came as the premier chaired a meeting in Islamabad on measures taken to prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C, the Prime Minister’s Office said (PMO).</p> <figure class='media w-full w-full media-- media--embed media--uneven media--tweet' data-original-src='https://x.com/PakPMO/status/2072973873985790427'> <div cl

<p>KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) sought on Thursday a detailed report from the provincial health secretary and police chief after a citizen filed a petition, citing reports of an HIV outbreak allegedly resulting from the reuse of contaminated syringes and medical negligence at a Karachi hospital.</p> <p>The petition, filed by Tariq Mansoor, was taken up by a two-member SHC bench comprising Justice Adnanul Karim Memon and Justice Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry.</p> <p>In its written order, seen by <e

<p><strong>• No reward points under SDRP<br /> • TTCIS also discontinued; banks to keep transfers free for users</strong></p> <p>KARACHI: The State Bank has abolished the incentives paid to banks for increasing remittances, after the amount grew to a level that came under the IMF’s radar.</p> <p>The SBP issued a circular on Thursday announcing that the Sohni Dharti Remittance Programme (SDRP) had been discontinued.</p> <p>“No further reward points under SDRP will be awarded from the s

<p><strong>• Decision taken unanimously by Senate Standing Committee on EAD<br>• Division says it cannot directly order FIA, NAB inquiry into another ministry’s projects<br>• Senators criticise EAD letter questioning committee’s jurisdiction</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Economic Affairs Division on Thursday decided to brief the prime minister on irregularities and alleged corruption in foreign-funded projects in the power sector and directly ask the Feder