Pakistan will try to sell its state-owned airline, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), one more time on December 23, according to state media. The long-struggling carrier is being privatised under the country’s $7 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout plan, which pushes the government to reform or exit loss-making public firms. This will be Pakistan’s first…
Pakistan’s powerful army chief will be given an expanded role and the remit of its Supreme Court curbed under constitutional changes passed by one of the two houses of parliament on Monday, a move opposition leaders say will undermine democracy. Pakistan, historically coup-prone, is seeing its longest period of elected government. But in recent years,…
Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif government is preparing to table the 27th Constitutional Amendment in Parliament, a proposal that could give more power to the military and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed the move in the Senate, sparking debate over the military’s expanding role in national affairs….
A week after a suspected Pakistani airstrike in Kabul targeted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Noor Wali Mehsud, the militant leader appeared in a video message on Thursday, declaring he was alive. The development risks reigniting one of the most serious confrontations between Islamabad and Kabul in decades. In the video, Mehsud denied reports of his…