Pakistan Army soldiers patrol in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in this undated image. — AFP/FileSecurity forces neutralised at least 15 terrorists, including a key ringleader linked to the Indian proxy Fitna al-Khawarij, during two intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Inter-Services...
A crime scene tape can be seen in this image. — Reuters/FileKARACHI: Police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old newly married woman, Zainab, whose body was found hanging on the roof of a residential building in Karachi in the night between November 17 and 18, and have registered a...
TTAP leaders and other politicians protest against 27th Constitutional Amendment outside Supreme Court in Islamabad on November 18, 2025. — X@AsadQaiserPTIISLAMABAD: The Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-Pakistan on Tuesday held a protest rally against the 27th Constitutional Amendment, marching...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar speaks during 24th meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of Government in Moscow, Russia, November 18, 2025. — X/@ForeignOfficePKDeputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday urged member states of...
THE evolution of the Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship has always been inconsistent, and rooted in deep mistrust, blame games, propaganda, conspiracy theories, perpetual external interference and repeated cycles of violence. The bilateral equation has experienced many irritants, each having abundant...
ECONOMIC discourse in this country, especially with folks in governance circles, can throw up some very interesting — as well as disturbing — insights. A recent conversation brought up the interesting case of a preference for the ‘China model’. What is their conception of this model? Briefly, ...
SEPTEMBER emerged as a politically charged month. The PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami announced their plans for long marches on Islamabad. The simultaneous mobilisation by the two parties had raised concerns about potentially prolonged street protests and disruptions in the capital. However, both parties po...
Clutching a photograph of his missing son, Rajesh Ram is pinning his hopes on DNA testing — like thousands of others desperately seeking relatives swept away by Nepal’s catastrophic Himalayan floods. “I searched for him everywhere, but I could not find his body,” 53-year-old Ram told AFP, still wait...
KHYBER: Hostile socio-economic conditions, acute shortage of residential facilities and an impending harsh winter in Afghanistan have greatly hampered the repatriation of illegal Afghan nationals to their country via the Torkham border since early September. Official sources in Torkham told Dawn tha...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday it is investigating a possible terrorist link to an apparent attempt by a co-pilot to crash a flydubai passenger jet headed to Israel. The dramatic events on Wednesday ended with the plane making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia and passenger...
The unprecedented botched execution of a woman in Tennessee has reignited the debate over execution methods in the United States — which varies from lethal injection to firing squads. Methods used in the US Methods vary by state. States carry out the vast majority of executions, while federal execut...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday signalled a cautious shift in its approach to the newly imposed US sanctions on Iran, saying it would adhere to “all applicable sanctions regimes” under international and domestic law, a formulation that goes beyond Islamabad’s earlier emphasis on international law an...