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• Balochistan accounts for nearly 59pc of total fatalities in third quarter of 2026 • CRSS records 1,415 deaths, 558 injuries across 385 incidents • TTP becomes deadliest group, inflicting 117 deaths ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recor­ded a sharp 83 per cent increase in violence-linked fatalities during the ...

• Describes cuts as ‘accountability’, while critics call them a purge• Musk set to co-lead Pentagon Project Meridian, a study on future of warfare WASHINGTON: Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 per ce...

Arab Israeli politician Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy on Thursday from October’s parliamentary election after Israel’s Supreme Court indicated a majority of its judges supported barring him from the race. Arab Israeli parties are seen by political analysts as potential kingmakers in the O...

• US president warns strikes against Tehran could resume after midterms; Washington sanctions Iran’s top carmakers, rail operators• Pezeshkian says his country is open to dialogue; Putin hopes the strait reopens, says Russia’s offer to take enriched uranium still stands PRESIDENT Donald Trump reject...

Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned an attack by the Houthi militia on the Taibah power distribution station in Madina on Sept 29, describing it as a “grave provocation” and a threat to regional peace and security. In a statement, the Foreign Office (FO) said the attack targeted civilian infrastru...

• Seeks faster work on targeted gas subsidies, Rs3.6tr circular debt• Acknowledges power sector’s improvement in recoveries, loss reduction• Govt, lender to discuss direct cash support for deserving power consumers next week ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appreciated Pakistan’s...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face renewed pressure on Friday as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janata Party and a separate coalition of student and activist groups stage fresh protests, demanding the resignation of the elections commission chief over a controversial voter roll revision. The CJP will r...

New Delhi: The Delhi government will recruit 15,000 home guards, taking their total number to 25,000, an official statement said on Wednesday. Delhi LG VK Saxena on Tuesday distributed letters of enrolment to 1669 home guards out of 10,000, for which the recruitment process was started in January, s...

NEW DELHI: Law Minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday described the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami as "seriously reprehensible, unwarranted and worrisome."He also questioned the silence of the Congress leadership when its government in Maharashtra was "b...

India's National Stock Exchange has received a no-objection certificate from markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India to launch futures contracts linked to a corporate bond index, the exchange said on Thursday.The launch is subject to approval from the Reserve Bank of India.The propo...

Apple Inc. lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the U.S. by a female engineer from India who says her two managers -- one from her country, the other from Pakistan -- treated her as they would in their own countries: as a subservient.The woman’s case in California state court i...

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said Thursday that while he supported last month’s interest-rate increase, he saw no urgency for the US central bank to act again, according to Reuters.“Any future adjustments in policy should be determined by carefully examining trends in the data, the ev...