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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 Parliament backs wider definition of workplace harassment weeks after top court narrowed it Opposition asks for time on PPP invitation to join electoral reforms committee Home from India’s prisons, the fishermen who strayed across a sea border Pakistan raises LNG prices by up to 15 percent after September cut Singapore praises Pakistan’s Gulf mediation on first foreign minister visit in two decades Pakistan destroys Afghan Taliban border posts in fresh clashes

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Singapore praises Pakistan’s Gulf mediation on first foreign minister visit in two decades

October 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM

By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Singapore’s foreign minister has publicly thanked Pakistan for its mediation in the Gulf crisis, telling his counterpart in Islamabad on Friday

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Editorial

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Opinion

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  • Five years on, the world has stopped watching Afghanistan. That is precisely what the Taliban were counting on

Videos

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Politics

Pakistan destroys Afghan Taliban border posts in fresh clashes

October 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts near South Waziristan and Parachinar, state media reported on Friday, the latest flare-up on a border where fighting has persisted for months.

  • 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
  • Bhutto-Zardari tells Achakzai to use Imran Khan’s authority and end opposition boycott of committees

    October 29, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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People

CDA gives Maulana Fazlur Rehman 15 days to remove alleged encroachments from Islamabad home

October 30, 2026 at 11:52 PM

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has given 15 days for alleged encroachments to be removed from the Islamabad home of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief, in a move his party calls political retaliation.

  • 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
  • Govt says Imran Khan’s jailed sister is “fine” after hospital treatment

    October 29, 2026 at 10:17 PM
  • Imran Khan’s son warns Pakistan over father’s life in prison

    October 29, 2026 at 09:54 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 offers Saudi Arabia tax-free oil storage to hedge Hormuz risk

October 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan offered Saudi Arabia tax-free space to store oil on its territory, pitching itself as a hedge against disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

  • 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 raises LNG prices by up to 15 percent after September cut

    October 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
  • Pakistan says fuel stocks cover three to four weeks, rules out new curbs

    October 30, 2026 at 08:52 AM
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Trending

Home from India’s prisons, the fishermen who strayed across a sea border

October 30, 2026 at 11:17 PM

KARACHI: Eleven Pakistani fishermen who spent between four and nine years in Indian jails after their boats strayed into Indian waters were reunited with their families in Karachi on Friday.

  • Pakistan raises diesel for fifth straight revision, holds petrol

    October 31, 2026 at 12:03 AM
  • CDA gives Maulana Fazlur Rehman 15 days to remove alleged encroachments from Islamabad home

    October 30, 2026 at 11:52 PM
  • Pakistan “cautiously optimistic” on Iran-US mediation after army chief’s second Tehran trip – report

    October 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
  • Rickshaw maker Sazgar opens first overseas plant in the Philippines

    October 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Pakistan “cautiously optimistic” on Iran-US mediation after army chief’s second Tehran trip – report

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Rickshaw maker Sazgar opens first overseas plant in the Philippines

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Opposition asks for time on PPP invitation to join electoral reforms committee

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