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Pakistan hikes fuel prices a third day as Brent tops $100 on Iran escalation Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university Pakistan seeks bids to import 750,000 tons of wheat to plug provincial shortfall Pakistan gets LNG lifeline as stranded Qatari cargo clears Hormuz Pakistan remittances rise 16.5 percent as Gulf states anchor inflows Senators clash in fiery hearing over Gujranwala sanitation worker’s death Pakistan warns Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia could trigger trilateral defence pact Pakistan welcomes 12-nation push to curb trade with Israeli settlements Eleven militants killed as security forces foil highway ambush and raid bomb-making hideout PPP chief says interior minister ‘entitled to his opinion’ but demands new provinces row be settled in National Assembly

Latest News

Pakistan warns Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia could trigger trilateral defence pact

September 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defence minister has warned that a fresh wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia could be enough to activate a fledgling trilateral defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara, as the Yemeni conflict edges closer to spilling across the kingdom’s southern border.

  • In Sindh, a vote to stay whole — and a message to Rawalpindi

    September 4, 2026 at 09:20 AM
  • Five years on, the world has stopped watching Afghanistan. That is precisely what the Taliban were counting on

    August 15, 2026 at 09:32 PM
  • Mecca’s new pact is a hedge, not a break — and the Gulf knows the difference

    August 8, 2026 at 09:21 AM
  • JD Vance just said the unsayable about Israel

    July 17, 2026 at 02:13 PM

OPED

Editorial

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

Opinion

  • 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
  • Mecca’s new pact is a hedge, not a break — and the Gulf knows the difference

Videos

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

Politics

Pakistan welcomes 12-nation push to curb trade with Israeli settlements

September 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed a coordinated decision by Britain, France and Canada to impose trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as Israel responded to the move by ordering the closure of the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem and barring a dozen British parliamentarians from entering the country.

  • Pakistan warns Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia could trigger trilateral defence pact

    September 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
  • PPP chief says interior minister ‘entitled to his opinion’ but demands new provinces row be settled in National Assembly

    September 9, 2026 at 09:49 PM
  • Thousands of Afghan medical students told to leave Pakistan as deportation drive widens

    September 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM
  • Pakistan rallies behind Saudi Arabia after Houthi strikes wound 73, hit energy facilities

    September 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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People

Eleven militants killed as security forces foil highway ambush and raid bomb-making hideout

September 9, 2026 at 09:56 PM

ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 11 militants and seized nearly three tonnes of explosives in two operations in restive Balochistan province, the military said, in the latest in a string of raids as the south-western region grapples with a marked rise in violence.

  • Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university

    September 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
  • Senators clash in fiery hearing over Gujranwala sanitation worker’s death

    September 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
  • Thousands of Afghan medical students told to leave Pakistan as deportation drive widens

    September 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM
  • Babar Azam blindsided by Pakistan cricket cull as England eye series whitewash

    September 8, 2026 at 11:14 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 remittances rise 16.5 percent as Gulf states anchor inflows

September 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM

KARACHI: Pakistan’s overseas workers sent home $3.656 billion in August, extending a run of double-digit gains that is helping cushion the country’s external accounts as it navigates a widening trade gap.

  • Pakistan hikes fuel prices a third day as Brent tops $100 on Iran escalation

    September 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
  • Pakistan seeks bids to import 750,000 tons of wheat to plug provincial shortfall

    September 9, 2026 at 10:38 PM
  • Pakistan gets LNG lifeline as stranded Qatari cargo clears Hormuz

    September 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
  • Pakistan fuel costs climb for second day as Houthi attack roils Oil market

    September 8, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Trending

Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university

September 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM

LAHORE: Twenty Afghan medical students at King Edward Medical University were given 24 hours to report to the administration and begin the process of leaving Pakistan. Seven were in their final year of training. For the women among them, the order does not just interrupt a degree. It sends them back to a country where they are barred from attending university at all.

  • Pakistan hikes fuel prices a third day as Brent tops $100 on Iran escalation

    September 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
  • Pakistan seeks bids to import 750,000 tons of wheat to plug provincial shortfall

    September 9, 2026 at 10:38 PM
  • Pakistan gets LNG lifeline as stranded Qatari cargo clears Hormuz

    September 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
  • Pakistan remittances rise 16.5 percent as Gulf states anchor inflows

    September 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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