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Pakistan faces IMF scrutiny over revenue shortfall, budget data gaps Pakistan faces December LNG gap with Qatar supply halt extended to Nov. 6 Pakistan’s new procurement rules keep direct awards to state firms, miss IMF ask Govt cuts fuel prices, but diesel stays above Rs400 a liter Security forces killed six militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan Pakistan draws twelve offers for wheat, with Bunge low at $339.36 Attock Refinery plans new 50,000-barrel plant, pending crude supply Arshad Nadeem fouls three times in a row and misses Asian Games javelin medal Afghan war review turns to Pakistan, a neighbour still fighting its consequences Man arrested over alleged gang rape of Azerbaijani woman in Lahore after medical report confirms assault

Latest News

Afghan war review turns to Pakistan, a neighbour still fighting its consequences

September 28, 2026 at 09:22 PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most senior military officer has urged a visiting American commission reviewing the war in Afghanistan to take account of his country’s experience of the conflict, at a meeting held while Islamabad continues to deal with security challenges along its border with Afghanistan.

  • A week’s grace and nobody to grant it

    September 28, 2026 at 09:06 AM
  • Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former prime minister, detained days ahead of planned capital march

    September 20, 2026 at 05:52 PM
  • Pakistan condemns drone strikes on Saudi pipeline as Middle East oil war widens

    September 13, 2026 at 01:51 PM
  • In Sindh, a vote to stay whole — and a message to Rawalpindi

    September 4, 2026 at 09:20 AM

OPED

Editorial

  • The pause that can’t become peace
  • Budget changes little
  • Budget delivers what the IMF wants, not what the people need

Opinion

  • A week’s grace and nobody to grant it
  • In Sindh, a vote to stay whole — and a message to Rawalpindi
  • Five years on, the world has stopped watching Afghanistan. That is precisely what the Taliban were counting on

Videos

  • US-Iran Round Two: Pakistan’s Make-or-Break Push for Peace

Politics

“I curse this chair”: CM Afridi defies threats of governor’s rule

September 28, 2026 at 08:46 PM

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has said he would give up his office rather than bend to Islamabad, as a bitter dispute over how to confront a surge in militant violence hardened into an open constitutional standoff.

  • Security forces killed six militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan

    September 28, 2026 at 09:50 PM
  • Pakistan says more than 70 militants killed in four-day Balochistan offensive

    September 27, 2026 at 08:46 PM
  • Pakistan rejects Taliban claim of role in Nuristan clashes between rival rebel groups

    September 27, 2026 at 08:30 PM
  • CM Afridi warns of ‘unprecedented’ backlash if province placed under federal control, calls for talks 

    September 26, 2026 at 09:28 PM
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People

Three traffic police officers shot dead in north-west Pakistan

September 28, 2026 at 08:53 PM

PESHAWAR: Three traffic police officers were shot dead in north-west Pakistan on Monday when gunmen opened fire on their van, the latest in a run of attacks on police and other security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

  • Arshad Nadeem fouls three times in a row and misses Asian Games javelin medal

    September 28, 2026 at 09:28 PM
  • Man arrested over alleged gang rape of Azerbaijani woman in Lahore after medical report confirms assault

    September 28, 2026 at 09:06 PM
  • Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded

    September 27, 2026 at 10:19 PM
  • Fifteen detained in Lahore inquiry into alleged gang-rape of Azerbaijani woman

    September 27, 2026 at 09:36 PM
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BITES

  • Mobile broadband services restored 
  • LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
  • Cabinet swells to 75 members
  • Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
  • World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
  • PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
  • Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
  • Shahbaz Gill declined bail
  • IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
  • Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
  • Punjab gets new policy chief
  • Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
  • Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
  • Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
  • Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
  • Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
  • ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
  • Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
  • CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
  • Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
  • IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
  • Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
  • Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
  • Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
  • Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction

Economy

Pakistan’s new procurement rules keep direct awards to state firms, miss IMF ask

September 29, 2026 at 08:33 AM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan notified new public procurement rules on Monday, two days before an International Monetary Fund deadline, but the text keeps a route for awarding contracts directly to state-owned enterprises that the lender had wanted curtailed.

  • Pakistan faces IMF scrutiny over revenue shortfall, budget data gaps

    September 29, 2026 at 08:50 AM
  • Pakistan faces December LNG gap with Qatar supply halt extended to Nov. 6

    September 29, 2026 at 08:43 AM
  • Govt cuts fuel prices, but diesel stays above Rs400 a liter

    September 29, 2026 at 12:37 AM
  • Pakistan draws twelve offers for wheat, with Bunge low at $339.36

    September 28, 2026 at 09:43 PM
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Trending

Arshad Nadeem fouls three times in a row and misses Asian Games javelin medal

September 28, 2026 at 09:28 PM

ISLAMABAD: Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion, was left without a medal at the Asian Games on Monday after fouling his last three throws in a rain-soaked final, in which Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage won gold with an 88.55m effort on his sixth and final attempt.

  • Pakistan faces IMF scrutiny over revenue shortfall, budget data gaps

    September 29, 2026 at 08:50 AM
  • Pakistan faces December LNG gap with Qatar supply halt extended to Nov. 6

    September 29, 2026 at 08:43 AM
  • Pakistan’s new procurement rules keep direct awards to state firms, miss IMF ask

    September 29, 2026 at 08:33 AM
  • Govt cuts fuel prices, but diesel stays above Rs400 a liter

    September 29, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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More News

Pakistan faces IMF scrutiny over revenue shortfall, budget data gaps

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Pakistan faces December LNG gap with Qatar supply halt extended to Nov. 6

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Pakistan’s new procurement rules keep direct awards to state firms, miss IMF ask

Tuesday September 29, 2026Tuesday September 29, 2026

Govt cuts fuel prices, but diesel stays above Rs400 a liter

Tuesday September 29, 2026Tuesday September 29, 2026

Security forces killed six militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan

Monday September 28, 2026Monday September 28, 2026

Pakistan draws twelve offers for wheat, with Bunge low at $339.36

Monday September 28, 2026Monday September 28, 2026

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