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.
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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 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.
Police surgeon who exposed autopsy flaws in Mir Raza Ali case says she was stalked and threatened
KARACHI: A police surgeon whose findings blew apart the official account of a young Karachi businessman’s death told a judicial commission on Monday that she had been followed, threatened and subjected to an online smear campaign after she disputed the results of his first post-mortem examination.
Jemima Goldsmith marries Irish-Australian financier 22 years after Imran Khan divorce
KARACHI: Jemima Goldsmith, the screenwriter and film producer once married to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, has married for a second time, exchanging vows with the Irish-Australian financier Cameron O’Reilly in a private ceremony over the weekend.
Justice Ayesha Malik honoured with lifetime achievement award in Vienna
ISLAMABAD: Justice Ayesha Malik, the first woman to sit on Pakistan’s Supreme Court, has been given the International Leader/Lifetime Award at the Justitia Awards 2026 in Vienna, in recognition of a judicial career that has placed gender equality and women’s rights at the centre of the country’s legal system.
India’s women follow men’s lead in refusing Asia Cup trophy from ACC chief Naqvi
India’s women cricketers refused to collect the Asia Cup trophy from the head of Asian cricket’s governing body on Sunday night, plunging the presentation ceremony in Dubai into confusion and repeating a snub delivered by their male counterparts a year earlier.
Methane blast kills four, injures five at Balochistan coal mine
A methane gas explosion collapsed a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing four workers and injuring five others, the latest in a string of fatal accidents that has drawn attention to weak safety enforcement in the country’s coal-mining sector.
Pakistan’s whitewash in England lays bare a crisis years in the making
KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricketers left England on Saturday with the emphatic misery of a 3-0 series whitewash and, almost despite themselves, one image that will outlast the scoreline: a 21-year-old fast bowler from Mardan, on Test debut, launching nine sixes into the Edgbaston evening as his side’s innings defeat turned, however briefly, into hope.
Balochistan chief minister rules out talks with militants, backs new provinces on administrative lines
QUETTA: Balochistan’s chief minister has ruled out any negotiations with those waging an armed insurgency against the Pakistani state, declaring that the province’s security forces would continue their campaign against militancy until, in his words, the “last terrorist” had been eliminated.