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The IMF’s bailout package to cash-strapped Pakistan cou­ld be delayed as the global lender is pressing it to be transparent on the CPEC project and wants a written guarantee from Islamabad its aid will not be used to repay the loans to China, a media report said on Monday.

Despite objections from the Opposition, Pakistan’s former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Ijaz Shah, who aided Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, was sworn in as Minister for Parliamentary Affairs on Tuesday by President Arif Alvi in Islamabad.

Asking Pakistan to stop promoting terrorism, Home Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday warned India would exert “so much pressure and so many actions will be taken” that Islamabad would be forced to act against such activities emanating from its soil.

Activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have condemned the Pulwama terror attack and asked Islamabad to dismantle all terror camps operating in PoK and parts of Pakistan.

Pakistan, wary of being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force, has urIndia ged it to remove India from the co-chair of a body that is reviewing Islamabad’s progress on the implementation of an action plan to combat terrorism.

India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria will reach Islamabad on Saturday after having completed his consultations here in the wake of Pulwama terror attack.

There was intense speculation about Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar on Sunday with one report suggesting that he has died of liver cancer in Islamabad.

The Islamabad High Court on Friday dismissed a Pakistani citizen’s plea to stop the imminent release of the captured Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinanadan Varthaman.

A Pakistani citizen on Friday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court to stop the imminent release of the captured Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinanadan Varthaman

The fact that IAF jets can penetrate deep into Pakistan — up to 100 km — and return safely to base without a casualty is a great game changer.