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Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest Pakistan says 2025 worst year for militant violence, over 1,000 security personnel killed Pakistan receives seventh LNG cargo since April as Hormuz flows resume Pezeshkian heads to Islamabad on state visit as US-Iran peace roadmap takes shape PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold Vance hails “good foundation” as US-Iran talks survive Trump disruptions in Switzerland US and Iran keep fragile diplomacy alive with 60-day roadmap toward final deal PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan Four Muslim powers urge swift conclusion to US-Iran talks in Switzerland NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat

Latest News

Vance hails “good foundation” as US-Iran talks survive Trump disruptions in Switzerland

June 22, 2026 at 06:57 PM

ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran agreed on Monday on a 60-day roadmap toward a permanent peace settlement after marathon overnight negotiations at a Swiss mountain resort, with Vice President JD Vance hailing a “good foundation” even as inflammatory statements from President Donald Trump thousands of miles away briefly caused Iran’s delegation to refuse to re-enter the negotiating room.

  • PPP pulled back from brink of budget boycott after midnight diplomacy at PM House

    June 18, 2026 at 09:57 AM
  • Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif calls for end to AJK sit-ins as death toll from protests reaches 22

    June 18, 2026 at 09:09 AM
  • Back to the table in Geneva — after a war that ended where it began

    June 16, 2026 at 02:38 PM
  • Budget changes little

    June 13, 2026 at 09:44 AM

OPED

Editorial

  • Budget changes little
  • Budget delivers what the IMF wants, not what the people need
  • A protection racket

Opinion

  • Back to the table in Geneva — after a war that ended where it began
  • Pakistan’s Stability Trap
  • Five trillion rupees, and the roads still have potholes

Videos

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

Politics

Pezeshkian heads to Islamabad on state visit as US-Iran peace roadmap takes shape

June 22, 2026 at 09:16 PM

ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a state visit at the invitation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said, as Tehran and Washington began a 60-day push toward a final agreement to end months of conflict following the first formal round of US-Iran talks in Switzerland.

  • Vance hails “good foundation” as US-Iran talks survive Trump disruptions in Switzerland

    June 22, 2026 at 06:57 PM
  • US and Iran keep fragile diplomacy alive with 60-day roadmap toward final deal

    June 22, 2026 at 08:53 AM
  • PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan

    June 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
  • Four Muslim powers urge swift conclusion to US-Iran talks in Switzerland

    June 21, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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People

PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold

June 22, 2026 at 09:10 PM

GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party and its ruling partner PML-N completed their takeover of Gilgit-Baltistan’s new assembly on Monday, sweeping the territory’s two top parliamentary offices without contest as a three-party power-sharing arrangement moved swiftly from deal to fact.

  • Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest

    June 22, 2026 at 09:35 PM
  • Pakistan says 2025 worst year for militant violence, over 1,000 security personnel killed

    June 22, 2026 at 09:22 PM
  • PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan

    June 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
  • NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat

    June 21, 2026 at 10:11 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 receives seventh LNG cargo since April as Hormuz flows resume

June 22, 2026 at 09:19 PM

KARACHI: A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker docked at Pakistan’s Port Qasim on Monday, the country’s seventh LNG delivery since April, as Islamabad moves to rebuild energy reserves following the crisis triggered by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year.

  • Telecom land-grab bill stalls in Senate as lawmakers warn it threatens constitutional property rights

    June 21, 2026 at 08:10 AM
  • Pakistan bets on bond markets as Gulf alliances show signs of strain

    June 20, 2026 at 07:13 PM
  • Government and PTI find rare common ground as Fata tax deadline looms

    June 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
  • Petrol pumped below Rs300 as Pakistan claims peacemaking dividend

    June 19, 2026 at 09:45 PM
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Trending

Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest

June 22, 2026 at 09:35 PM

QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sentenced prominent Baloch rights activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment after convicting her of inciting a mob that killed a paramilitary soldier during a protest in the southwestern port city of Gwadar nearly two years ago, in a case her lawyers condemned as a travesty of justice.

  • Pakistan says 2025 worst year for militant violence, over 1,000 security personnel killed

    June 22, 2026 at 09:22 PM
  • Pakistan receives seventh LNG cargo since April as Hormuz flows resume

    June 22, 2026 at 09:19 PM
  • Pezeshkian heads to Islamabad on state visit as US-Iran peace roadmap takes shape

    June 22, 2026 at 09:16 PM
  • PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold

    June 22, 2026 at 09:10 PM
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