Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government says it is not economically viable to hold snap elections in two provinces, where former leader Imran Khan had dissolved the local governments this year, ahead of a general election due in October.
Officials say the incident at a military compound in the country's Punjab state did not appear to be a terrorist attack.
India's search for the self-styled Sikh preacher, Amritpal Singh, enters its second day, with authorities arresting 78 of his supporters.
The development comes a day after Punjab's chief minister managed to secure a trust vote from members of the assembly.
Only an adequate green cover can save humanity and the planet from the effects of climate crisis-induced heating, floods, and other weather extremes.
Farmers are “not lighting it up out of choice", says Paramjit Singh, general secretary of a prominent farmers' union in Punjab, where over 33,000 stubble fires have been reported since September 15th.
Toll rises with 57 more deaths, 25 among them children, and officials say floods inundating a third of the South Asian country were preceded by four heatwaves and multiple raging forest fires provoked by climate crisis.
More than two million acres of agricultural land have been flooded and government is close to a deal to import vegetables and other edible goods from Iran and Afghanistan, officials say.
Passenger van and truck collide in Rahim Yar Khan district of eastern Punjab province, leaving 13 dead and five injured, officials say.
The former prime minister's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 15 of 20 assembly seats in the Punjab province, which local media suggests was a consequence of economic hardships felt by the country.
Sidhu Moose Wala, who was killed while driving his car in Punjab state, was not travelling with his bodyguards and left his bullet-proof vehicle at home, according to police.
This is the story of two ideological giants of Punjab, Muhammad Iqbal and Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, who came head to head in their opposing visions for the Muslims of British India.
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