The Gilgit-Baltistan village where no one says climate change but everyone talks…
I grew up believing that the year truly began in July. For most children, summer meant school holidays. For us in Gilgit-Baltistan, it meant…
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JI threatens countrywide shutdown, march on Islamabad
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Monday announced plans to turn the ongoing sit-ins against the petroleum levy into a broader nationwide…
Interior minister seeks two-year transformation plans from depts
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has directed heads of all subordinate institutions of the Ministry of Interior to present comprehensive two-year transformation plans…
KP CM Afridi raises concerns over Imran Khan’s health
• Demands meetings with family and lawyers, access for ex-PM’s private doctors• TTAP leaders claim govt has failed on economic, political fronts ISLAMABAD: Khyber…
Torrential rain forecast puts six Punjab cities on flood watch
• Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Gujrat at risk of urban flooding• PDMA warns of continued rains across region through Aug 21• Chenab, Ravi…
Pakistan assumes presidency of UN Conference on Disarmament
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan took the presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD) on Monday, it vowed to act impartially in steering the…
Balochistan flood project ‘downgraded’ by World Bank over housing cap
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has formally downgraded implementation progress on a $245 million flood rehabilitation project in Balochistan to ‘moderately unsatisfactory’, mainly after the…
ISPR slams India's 'Bollywood-style' documentary projecting last year's 'military blunder as a…
The military’s media affairs wing on Tuesday slammed India’s “Bollywood-style” documentary on its ‘Operation Sindoor’, saying it had “cobbled together a propaganda video to…
Supreme Court acquits 3 men in 2014 case of burning Christian couple…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has acquitted three individuals who had been sentenced to death in a 2014 case in which a Christian couple was…
FO rejects Indian home minister's 'baseless assertions' linking arrests with Pakistan
The Foreign Office (FO) rejected on Monday the Indian home minister’s “baseless assertions” linking certain arrests in his country with Pakistan, describing his allegations…