ISLAMABAD: Dual-national Pakistanis living abroad will no longer be permitted to board flights to Pakistan if they are carrying an invalid, expired, or cancelled National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis, according to officials who said the government has ordered airlines to begin verifying the documents before passengers reach the gate.
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ICC clears path for extra India-Pakistan clash in shake-up of 2027 World Cup
LAHORE: The International Cricket Council has torn up the format for next year’s men’s 50-over World Cup, introducing a change that could hand cricket’s most commercially valuable fixture — India against Pakistan — an additional airing.
Balochistan offensive kills three more militants, pushing toll past 125
QUETTA: Security forces killed three more militants on Wednesday as a joint military and police offensive in restive Balochistan province pushed its death toll to 88, state media reported, part of a broader crackdown that has claimed 126 lives since early July.
Karachi HIV cases linked to children’s hospital rise to 120, officials say
KARACHI: The number of people found to be infected with HIV in connection with a children’s hospital in Karachi has climbed to 120, provincial officials said Tuesday, as a public health investigation that began nine months ago continues to widen across working-class neighbourhoods in the city’s industrial quarter.
Nine dead as security forces clash with banned Kashmiri rights group ahead of march – report
MUZAFFARABAD: At least nine people were killed on Tuesday in clashes between security forces and supporters of a banned civil rights group, officials said, a day before the group had vowed to march on the region’s capital in defiance of a monthlong government crackdown, media reports said.
Army chief Munir visits Turkey for defence, security talks
ISLAMABAD: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s top military officer, spent two days working through a tightly choreographed itinerary in the Turkish capital this week — an airport reception, a closed-door meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a medal ceremony, and a solemn stop at the tomb of modern Turkey’s founder — in a visit both governments cast as evidence of how close the two countries’ militaries have become.
Flash floods rip through northern Pakistan, sweeping away homes and highway
By Staff Reporter DIAMER DISTRICT: Flash floods tore through six locations in a rugged district of northern Pakistan early on Monday, destroying homes, wiping out
PTI backs Aleema Khan’s fresh long march call for Imran Khan’s release
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has publicly thrown its support behind Aleema Khan’s call for a fresh “long march,” the latest attempt by the jailed former prime minister’s family to force his release.
Army chief Munir begins two-day Turkey visit, building on deepening military ties
ISLAMABAD: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff, arrived in Turkey on Monday for a two-day official visit, according to state media.
Two policemen killed in roadside bomb attack in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb tore through an armored police vehicle on patrol in Tank district on Monday, killing two officers and wounding two others in the latest attack targeting law enforcement in a district that has become one of the deadliest fronts in Pakistan’s fight against militancy.