Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday offered talks to the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to ease political tension in the country, days after the party founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 17 years in jail each.

A court here has rejected Mehul Choksi’s application seeking to quash the proceedings to declare him a Fugitive Economic Offender’ (FEO) in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case.

A Pakistani lawmaker has called out the hypocrisy of his country’s leadership, drawing a parallel between Islamabad’s military actions against Kabul and India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’.