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Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle Jamaat-i-Islami plans sit-ins in four cities over petrol levy, warns of escalation Riyadh Air launches Pakistan service, adding capacity to Islamabad route Business partner ordered to join Mir Raza Ali’s murder probe as court extends his bail Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects federal bid to withhold Rs6.4 billion from transfers Nawaz Sharif warns against political ‘animosity’ as PML-N edges towards Kashmir election victory Pakistan raises fuel dealer margins by Rs1.34/liter, averting nationwide strike Balochistan home minister survives gun attack on convoy, several wounded Pakistan marks 79th Independence Day with calls for reform, warnings to Kabul and praise from world capitals Murder inquiry turns to dead entrepreneur’s bank records and smartwatch

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Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle

August 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM

QUETTA: Security forces killed ten suspected militants and wounded several more during a gun battle in the mountains of Balochistan on Saturday, in the latest of a string of operations against a group the state accuses India of sponsoring.

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    August 15, 2026 at 09:32 PM
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    August 8, 2026 at 09:21 AM
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    July 17, 2026 at 02:13 PM
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    July 13, 2026 at 09:21 PM

OPED

Editorial

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

Opinion

  • 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
  • JD Vance just said the unsayable about Israel

Videos

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

Politics

Nawaz Sharif warns against political ‘animosity’ as PML-N edges towards Kashmir election victory

August 15, 2026 at 09:36 PM

MURREE: Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister and president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has called for political rivals to set aside “animosity” as his party moves towards a majority in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s fraught legislative assembly elections, a contest marked by weeks of unrest, an internet blackout and mounting allegations of rigging.

  • Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle

    August 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
  • Jamaat-i-Islami plans sit-ins in four cities over petrol levy, warns of escalation

    August 15, 2026 at 09:51 PM
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects federal bid to withhold Rs6.4 billion from transfers

    August 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
  • Balochistan home minister survives gun attack on convoy, several wounded

    August 14, 2026 at 07:58 PM
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People

Business partner ordered to join Mir Raza Ali’s murder probe as court extends his bail

August 15, 2026 at 09:43 PM

KARACHI: A Karachi court on Saturday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of the business partner of murdered entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali, ordering him to join the ongoing investigation and restraining him from leaving the city while police continue their inquiry into one of the most closely watched cases the city has seen in years.

  • Murder inquiry turns to dead entrepreneur’s bank records and smartwatch

    August 14, 2026 at 09:19 AM
  • Woman killed and 94 injured, including 17 children, as celebratory gunfire mars Pakistan’s Independence Day

    August 14, 2026 at 08:48 AM
  • Norway’s foreign minister lands in Islamabad with his own suitcase — and an invitation to invest

    August 14, 2026 at 08:43 AM
  • Pakistan arrests 114 in Islamabad over cyber-romance and sextortion network run from IT company

    August 14, 2026 at 08:36 AM
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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

Riyadh Air launches Pakistan service, adding capacity to Islamabad route

August 15, 2026 at 09:47 PM

ISLAMABAD: Riyadh Air, the Saudi Arabian national carrier launched under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 economic program, began commercial service to Pakistan on Friday, landing its inaugural flight in Islamabad as the airline works toward a goal of serving more than 100 destinations by 2030.

  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects federal bid to withhold Rs6.4 billion from transfers

    August 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
  • Pakistan raises fuel dealer margins by Rs1.34/liter, averting nationwide strike

    August 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
  • Pakistan’s fiscal deficit shrinks to 23-year low on fuel levy, provincial surplus

    August 14, 2026 at 08:39 AM
  • Pakistan fuel prices climb again as dealers’ talks with govt collapse, strike set for Saturday

    August 14, 2026 at 08:25 AM
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Trending

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects federal bid to withhold Rs6.4 billion from transfers

August 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has refused to accept a federal government plan to deduct 6.4 billion rupees from its share of monthly revenue transfers, deepening a fiscal standoff between Islamabad and one of its four provinces over control of constitutionally mandated funds.

  • Security forces kill ten Fitna al-Hindustan militants in Khuzdar gun battle

    August 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
  • Jamaat-i-Islami plans sit-ins in four cities over petrol levy, warns of escalation

    August 15, 2026 at 09:51 PM
  • Riyadh Air launches Pakistan service, adding capacity to Islamabad route

    August 15, 2026 at 09:47 PM
  • Business partner ordered to join Mir Raza Ali’s murder probe as court extends his bail

    August 15, 2026 at 09:43 PM
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