KARACHI: Seven former Australia cricket captains have written directly to foreign minister Penny Wong urging her to press Pakistan’s government over the treatment of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in an unusually direct intervention by some of the sport’s most decorated figures into the political fate of one of their own.
Aamir Ashraf
Top constitutional court seizes control of Imran Khan hospital case after inmates seek same treatment
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court has summoned the complete case record concerning former prime minister Imran Khan’s transfer to a private hospital, stepping into a matter that has been before the Supreme Court and setting up a fresh test of which institution now holds authority over Pakistan’s constitutional disputes.
Pakistan turns to its six million donkeys for badly needed dollars
KARACHI: A Chinese-run abattoir on the edge of Gwadar has begun shipping donkey meat, bones and hides to China, the first commercial flows in a trade that Pakistani officials estimate could earn as much as $400 million a year in foreign exchange.
ECC clears 200,000 tons of sugar exports, millers demand five times more
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet approved the export of 200,000 tons of sugar on Monday, and within hours the country’s mills publicly rejected the decision as a fraction of what is needed to clear a surplus they say is heading toward the new crushing season unsold.
‘They threw me by the roadside’: KP chief minister claims he was abducted by Punjab police
LAHORE: The chief minister of Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has accused the authorities in Punjab of abducting him and abandoning him at the roadside, an allegation the Punjab government rejected on Monday night as a piece of political theatre.
Pakistan raises fuel prices sixth time in two weeks as Brent tops $107 on Saudi supply fears
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan raised retail fuel prices for the sixth time in roughly two weeks, as a disabled Saudi Arabian pipeline and mounting attacks on Persian Gulf shipping keep global crude on an upward march that is being felt directly at pumps from Karachi to Peshawar.
Pakistanis rank debt, electricity bills above all other woes, survey shows
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s mounting debt burden and the relentless climb in electricity and gas prices have eclipsed every other worry for ordinary citizens, a first-of-its-kind nationwide survey showed, exposing a widening gap between what Pakistanis fear most and where the government actually spends its money.
Pakistan deepens defence ties with Indonesia and Lebanon as Field Marshal Munir holds back-to-back talks in Rawalpindi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most senior military officer held a pair of high-level meetings in Rawalpindi on Monday, receiving Indonesia’s naval chief and Lebanon’s interior minister within hours of each other, in a further sign of Islamabad’s push to widen its defence and security partnerships across Asia and the Middle East.
Pakistan banks weather Mideast shock as bad loans hit multi-year low
KARACHI: Pakistan’s banking industry expanded its balance sheet and cut its stock of bad loans to the lowest level in years during the first half of 2026, even as a spike in Middle East tensions rattled the country’s stock market and squeezed lenders’ margins, according to the State Bank of Pakistan.
Pakistan hockey chief says India trip depends on govt, after Indian minister’s claim of participation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s hockey authorities have declined to confirm the national team will travel to India for next month’s Asian Champions Trophy, insisting any tour remains contingent on government approval — hours after a senior Indian politician suggested the fixture was already secured.