KARACHI: Police arrested a woman described as one of the city’s most-wanted drug suppliers early on Tuesday, seizing a pistol, cocaine valued at millions of rupees and other narcotics from her possession after a joint midnight operation in the Garden area, authorities said.
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Opposition leaders stage sit-in outside Adiala jail as Imran Khan marks 1,000 days in custody
RAWALPINDI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi joined a sit-in on Tuesday alongside the sisters of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan outside Adiala jail, as authorities enforced a sweeping ban on public gatherings and deployed heavy security forces to prevent any escalation.
Car sales surge 52 percent in first 10 months as buyers brush off higher fuel prices
KARACHI: Pakistan’s car sales rose 52% in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, reaching 127,042 units compared with 83,401 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association.
Cambridge faces fresh leak allegations after Pakistani students say latest AS-level Math exam matched paper circulating online
KARACHI: Students sitting for an AS-level mathematics examination administered by Cambridge International Education on Tuesday reported that the paper they received was identical to a fully solved version that had appeared on social media only a day earlier, the latest in a series of leaks that have disrupted Cambridge’s testing cycle in Pakistan and prompted a high-level government intervention.
SBP sees Pakistan growth near low end of forecast after strong H1 as oil shock looms
KARACHI: Pakistan’s macroeconomic stability strengthened in the first half of fiscal 2026 despite floods at home and uncertainty over global trade even as the State Bank of Pakistan warned Tuesday that the war in the Middle East now threatens to derail the recovery.
Blast kills 7, including 2 police officers, in market explosion in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
LAKKI MARWAT: At least seven people, including two traffic police officers, were killed and 23 others wounded Tuesday when a powerful explosion tore through a busy market square in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said.
Pakistan to tackle refinery policy roadblocks in 2026-27 budget as US-Iran conflict spurs fresh push for $6 billion in upgrades
ISLAMABAD: The government is preparing corrective steps in the upcoming fiscal budget to breathe life into a petroleum refining policy that has languished for nearly three years, after negotiations with the International Monetary Fund effectively blocked its implementation, Dawn newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan fuel prices post world’s second-steepest surge since Iran war, data show
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded the world’s second-largest increase in domestic fuel prices since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to global price-tracking data compiled by the country’s energy ministry.
Pakistan to vaccinate 19 million children against polio in nationwide drive after new cases
ISLAMABAD: The health authorities will begin a week-long door-to-door polio vaccination campaign from Sunday, targeting nearly 19 million children across 79 districts, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest push to eradicate a disease that remains endemic only in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan.
Pakistan rejects CBS News report alleging it sheltered Iranian military aircraft during fragile US-Iran ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Tuesday categorically rejected a CBS News report that accused Islamabad of quietly permitting Iranian military aircraft to park at one of its air bases while positioning itself as a mediator in the US-Iran conflict, dismissing the account as “misleading and sensationalised.”