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Pakistan chase down 326 to beat Sri Lanka in tri-series final Refiners say new petrol formula forces sales below cost Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz voices heartbreak after husband’s remarks on cancer, Asma Jahangir sparks outrage PM Sharif accuses PTI of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan tells Taliban its security will not be “held hostage” to Kabul’s inaction on terror Pakistan raises LPG rate 5.27 percent to Rs294/kg, market prices hit Rs800 Pakistan raises diesel for fifth straight revision, holds petrol CDA gives Maulana Fazlur Rehman 15 days to remove alleged encroachments from Islamabad home Pakistan “cautiously optimistic” on Iran-US mediation after army chief’s second Tehran trip – report Rickshaw maker Sazgar opens first overseas plant in the Philippines

Latest News

PM Sharif accuses PTI of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

November 1, 2026 at 09:47 AM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accused Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and told his own party’s lawmakers from the province to shelve long-term projects in favour of quick relief for voters.

  • PPP chief offers PTI route out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa emergency, but calls its chief minister a ‘coward’

    October 19, 2026 at 02:39 PM
  • Pakistan mills idle despite bigger cotton crop, industry says

    October 19, 2026 at 02:25 PM
  • Pakistan presses Iran and US to keep talking as Tehran holds to seven-day Hormuz plan

    October 19, 2026 at 02:17 PM
  • Pakistan’s first astronaut to fly to space from China on 25 November

    October 19, 2026 at 02:12 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

  • 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

Pakistan tells Taliban its security will not be “held hostage” to Kabul’s inaction on terror

November 1, 2026 at 09:37 AM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has accused the Afghan Taliban of a “persistent refusal to address terrorism”, warning Kabul that it reserves the right to take “all necessary measures” to eliminate threats to its security “wherever they originate”.

  • PM Sharif accuses PTI of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    November 1, 2026 at 09:47 AM
  • Pakistan “cautiously optimistic” on Iran-US mediation after army chief’s second Tehran trip – report

    October 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
  • Opposition asks for time on PPP invitation to join electoral reforms committee

    October 30, 2026 at 11:25 PM
  • Singapore praises Pakistan’s Gulf mediation on first foreign minister visit in two decades

    October 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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People

Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz voices heartbreak after husband’s remarks on cancer, Asma Jahangir sparks outrage

November 1, 2026 at 10:03 AM

LAHORE: Retired Capt Muhammad Safdar, the husband of Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz, has faced a fierce backlash over remarks about women’s bodily autonomy and the late human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir.

  • Pakistan chase down 326 to beat Sri Lanka in tri-series final

    November 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM
  • CDA gives Maulana Fazlur Rehman 15 days to remove alleged encroachments from Islamabad home

    October 30, 2026 at 11:52 PM
  • Parliament backs wider definition of workplace harassment weeks after top court narrowed it

    October 30, 2026 at 11:27 PM
  • Home from India’s prisons, the fishermen who strayed across a sea border

    October 30, 2026 at 11:17 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 raises LPG rate 5.27 percent to Rs294/kg, market prices hit Rs800

November 1, 2026 at 09:32 AM

ISLAMABAD: The oil and gas regulator raised the official price of liquefied petroleum gas for a second straight month, a move that puts households already paying close to double that rate on the open market, driven by a shortage tied to the US-Iran war.

  • Refiners say new petrol formula forces sales below cost

    November 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
  • Pakistan raises diesel for fifth straight revision, holds petrol

    October 31, 2026 at 12:03 AM
  • Rickshaw maker Sazgar opens first overseas plant in the Philippines

    October 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
  • Pakistan offers Saudi Arabia tax-free oil storage to hedge Hormuz risk

    October 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Trending

Pakistan chase down 326 to beat Sri Lanka in tri-series final

November 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM

LAHORE: Fakhar Zaman made a magnificent 127 and 21-year-old Arafat Minhas struck 61 off 31 balls to carry Pakistan to a three-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the tri-series final at a packed Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday, with nine balls to spare.

  • Refiners say new petrol formula forces sales below cost

    November 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
  • Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz voices heartbreak after husband’s remarks on cancer, Asma Jahangir sparks outrage

    November 1, 2026 at 10:03 AM
  • PM Sharif accuses PTI of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    November 1, 2026 at 09:47 AM
  • Pakistan tells Taliban its security will not be “held hostage” to Kabul’s inaction on terror

    November 1, 2026 at 09:37 AM
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PM Sharif accuses PTI of wasting 13 years in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Pakistan tells Taliban its security will not be “held hostage” to Kabul’s inaction on terror

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Pakistan raises LPG rate 5.27 percent to Rs294/kg, market prices hit Rs800

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