ISLAMABAD: An explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas hub, killed 13 workers, including a Pakistani, and wounded 66 others on Sunday evening, the country’s energy minister said on Monday, as the Gulf state works to restore output halted by the US-Iran war.
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Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest
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
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan suffered its highest annual toll of security and law enforcement personnel in the country’s history in 2025, a government minister told parliament on Monday, as Islamabad grappled with a surge in militant attacks that he described as the “peak” of terrorism in the nation.
PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold
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.
PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday named Amjad Hussain, a veteran lawyer and the Pakistan Peoples Party’s provincial president in Gilgit-Baltistan, as the region’s incoming chief minister, completing a swift consolidation of power after elections that were delayed, disputed and ultimately inconclusive in several constituencies.
NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national disaster authority has placed the entire country on emergency alert, warning that a convergent weather system will bring thunderstorms, flash flooding, destructive high winds and — in the country’s glaciated north — the sudden, potentially catastrophic release of glacial lakes, all within the next 12 to 24 hours.
Power-sharing deal gives PPP chief minister post in GB as PML-N takes governor’s office
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s two dominant governing parties have agreed to form a coalition government in the northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, extending to the high-altitude region the same power-sharing arrangement that has underpinned their alliance in Islamabad since 2024’s federal elections.
Four PTI leaders jailed for decade over May 9 riots as Qureshi walks free
LAHORE: Four senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been sentenced to ten years in prison each by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, while former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was acquitted on Saturday in the latest verdict to emerge from the country’s sweeping judicial reckoning over the May 9, 2023 riots.
Twin blasts in Bannu kill seven after militants target passengers, then their rescuers
ISLAMABAD: Seven civilians have been killed and three others wounded in twin bomb attacks on passenger vehicles in a remote mountain district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in an assault deliberately timed to strike not only ordinary travellers but those rushing to their aid.
Nine dead as torrential rains and flash floods batter Pakistan’s northwest
ISLAMABAD: At least nine people have been killed and seven others injured across Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after days of heavy rain brought walls and rooftops crashing down on residents, disaster management authorities said on Friday, as officials issued urgent warnings of glacial lake outbursts and flash floods across the region’s mountain districts.