ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling coalition partner, the Pakistan Peoples Party, won the most seats in an election in the northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday but fell short of a majority, leaving independent candidates with the power to determine who governs a region that sits at the heart of Beijing’s signature infrastructure push into South Asia.

RAWALAKOT: The streets of this mountain city in Azad Jammu and Kashmir were quiet on Monday under a second consecutive day of shuttered shops and absent traffic — an uneasy stillness that followed weekend clashes that left eleven people dead, including four law enforcement officers, and that a banned political committee was seeking to channel into a region-wide general strike and protest march.

ISLAMABAD: The government plans to present its federal budget for fiscal year 2026-27 to the National Assembly on June 12, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said Tuesday, as Islamabad moved to lock in a date after weeks of delays driven by coalition friction and a deepening dispute with provincial governments over revenue sharing.

PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf faces a deepening internal rebellion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where more than 30 members of the provincial assembly have coalesced into a dissident bloc demanding aggressive action to secure the release of the party’s imprisoned founder, Imran Khan — and threatening to bring down the provincial government’s budget if their demands are not met.