ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s weather authorities have warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall across Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan over the coming days, with forecasters cautioning that the River Chenab could reach a high flood level as a fresh monsoon system moves in from India.
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UAE resumes visit visas for Pakistani families as months-long delays begin to ease
ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates has resumed issuing visit visas to Pakistani nationals who apply through registered travel agents, according to industry representatives and an embassy official, bringing relief after months of delays that had unsettled one of Pakistan’s most important travel and remittance corridors.
Voting begins in Kashmir’s second election phase as PML-N and PPP rigging row deepens
MUZAFFARABAD: Voting got under way in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday for the second phase of the territory’s legislative elections, with more than 1.2 million people eligible to cast ballots across Muzaffarabad division and 12 constituencies reserved for refugees from Indian-occupied Kashmir.
July marks decade-high in Pakistan militant deaths as security forces suffer heaviest losses since 2023
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan suffered its bloodiest month of the year in July, with 112 security personnel and 401 militants killed in fighting that has engulfed the country’s restive north-west and south-west, according to new figures from an Islamabad-based security think tank.
PPP and PML-N resume talks to defuse AJK election rigging row as second phase of voting looms
MUZAFFARABAD: Senior leaders from Pakistan’s two governing coalition partners sat down again on Saturday in an attempt to calm a rapidly escalating row over allegations of vote-rigging in the first phase of elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, hours before polling opens in the region’s second phase on Sunday.
Army major martyred as forces kill 12 militants in North Waziristan and Balochistan raids
ISLAMABAD: An army officer was martyred on Saturday when security forces battled militants in North Waziristan, one of two intelligence-led operations in Pakistan’s restive western provinces that also left seven militants dead in Balochistan, including a would-be suicide bomber, according to the military’s media wing.
Mountaineering icon Nirmal Purja dies in Broad Peak avalanche along with nine other expedition members
GILGIT: Record-setting Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has died after an avalanche struck an expedition on Pakistan’s Broad Peak, his expedition company confirmed on Saturday, in a disaster that also killed one of Oman’s most accomplished climbers.
Search resumes for seven climbers missing on Broad Peak as rescuers battle weather and altitude
ISLAMABAD: Rescue teams backed by Pakistan Army helicopters resumed the search on Saturday morning for seven climbers still missing on Broad Peak, two days after an avalanche tore through a 10-member international expedition on one of the world’s most formidable 8,000-metre peaks.
Pakistan tax authority beats July target on sales tax surge
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue collected Rs816 billion in July, beating its monthly target by Rs36 billion in a start to the fiscal year that officials say was buoyed by stronger sales tax intake and the release of vehicles held up at ports.
Minister Naqvi’s call to redraw Pakistan’s provincial map splits coalition and sparks constitutional row
ISLAMABAD: A proposal by Pakistan’s interior minister to tear up the country’s administrative map has plunged the governing coalition into open disagreement, drawn a blunt rebuff from the chief minister of Sindh, and prompted lawyers in Lahore to accuse the minister of proposing something the constitution does not allow.