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PAKISTAN INTENSIFIES DIPLOMACY AMID RAGING MIDDLE EAST WAR
PAKISTAN stepped up diplomatic outreach on Wednesday as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister/foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a series of high-level engagements with regional leaders, urging dialogue and de-escalation amid the...
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TEHRAN VOWS ‘EYE FOR AN EYE’ AS ATTACKS, COUNTERATTACKS ESCALATE ACROSS MIDDLE EAST
IRAN continued its counterattacks on US and Israeli targets across the Middle East, including strikes in Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, as tensions escalate following President Donald Trump’s warning that Iran would be hit “TWENTY TIMES...
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PM UNVEILS AUSTERITY PLAN AS FUEL CRISIS DEEPENS AMID ME TENSIONS
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday announced sweeping austerity measures to cope with a worsening fuel crisis triggered by escalating tensions in the Middle East following attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran. Regional tensions surged...
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THREE FUEL SHIPMENTS EXPECTED TODAY AS CENTRE, PROVINCES JOIN FORCES TO MANAGE CRISIS
THREE petroleum shipments are expected to arrive in Pakistan by Monday (today), Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik informed, as the federal government delegation met with Sindh and Punjab officials on Sunday to discuss the impact of the Middle East...
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IRAN VOWS WILL NEVER ‘BOW’ AS TRUMP THREATENS ‘VERY HARD’ STRIKES AMID SOARING MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
AS the war launched by the United States and Israel enters its second week, tensions across the Middle East continue to escalate with no signs of abating. US President Donald Trump has threatened “very hard” strikes on Iran, while Iran maintains it...
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IRAN DEFIANT AMID US-ISRAEL STRIKES AS TRUMP DEMANDS ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’
MASSIVE explosions rocked multiple locations across Iran on Friday as the conflict entered its seventh day, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claiming it has launched a fresh round of strikes, while US President Donald Trump demanded...
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PAKISTAN, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA PUSH FOR ‘MAXIMUM RESTRAINT’ AMID ESCALATING MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
PAKISTAN, Indonesia and Malaysia on Thursday agreed to jointly urge “maximum restraint” by all parties and stakeholders involved in the intensifying crisis in the Middle East, as Islamabad stepped up diplomatic outreach to help defuse rising regional...
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POLITICAL LEADERSHIP RALLIES BEHIND UNITY AS PARTIES BRIEFED ON REGIONAL, INTERNAL SECURITY
LEADERS and representatives of parliamentary parties on Wednesday underscored the need for “national unity, consensus and unanimity” amid the prevailing national and regional situation during a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz...
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ERDOGAN OFFERS TO HELP RESTORE PAK-AFGHAN CEASEFIRE AMID REGIONAL TURMOIL
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday held a key telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who reaffirmed Ankara’s unwavering support for Pakistan in its fight against terrorism and pledged assistance in restoring the...
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PM HOLDS REGIONAL DIPLOMACY TALKS WITH OMAN, SYRIA, AND KUWAIT LEADERS AMID ME CONFLICT
PRIME Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday held separate telephone conversations with the leaders of Oman, Syria, and Kuwait, emphasizing the urgent need for restraint, diplomacy, and de-escalation following Israel’s recent attack on Iran and the...
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CHAOS AS IRAN TARGETS GULF BASES AFTER US, ISRAELI STRIKES KILL 201, INJURE 747
IRAN’S Revolutionary Guards have launched a new wave of missiles against US bases in the Gulf, and Israel, following US and Israeli strikes in 24 province of Iran that killed 201 and injured over 700, according to Irani officials and media reports. The...
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ANY FURTHER PROVOCATION BY TALIBAN WILL GET ‘MEASURED, DECISIVE RESPONSE’: FO
PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office (FO) on Friday warned that any further provocation by the Afghan Taliban regime and terrorist groups “will be met with a measured, decisive and befitting response,” emphasizing that Pakistan’s Armed Forces carried out “precise...
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30 TALIBAN FIGHTERS KILLED AS PAKISTAN RESPONDS ‘IMMEDIATELY, EFFECTIVELY’ TO AFGHAN TALIBAN UNPROVOKED FIRE
PAKISTAN’S security forces responded “decisively, immediately and effectively” to unprovoked aggression by the Afghan Taliban on multiple locations across the border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and killed at least 30 personnel of the Afghan Taliban regime,...
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PAKISTAN SILENCES UNPROVOKED CROSS-BORDER FIRING BY AFGHAN TALIBAN ‘IMMEDIATELY AND EFFECTIVELY’
SECURITY forces responded immediately to stop unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban at the Pakistanafghanistan border on Tuesday amid intense friction between the two countries, according to the prime minister's spokesperson. "The Afghan Taliban...
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GOVT INVITES OPPOSITION FOR DIALOGUE TO STRENGTHEN CHARTER OF DEMOCRACY
THE government on Monday extended an invitation to the opposition to engage in talks aimed at “strengthening and taking forward” the Charter of Democracy, the 2006 agreement signed by PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and late PPP leader Benazir Bhutto to...
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OVER 80 TERRORISTS KILLED IN RETALIATORY AIRSTRIKES ON 7 CAMPS ALONG PAK-AFGHANISTAN BORDER
PAKISTANI airstrikes killed “more than 80 terrorists” and destroyed “seven seven terrorist camps and hideouts at the border region of Pakistanafghan border, in a retaliatory operation against groups responsible for recent suicide bombings inside...
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COLONEL, SEPOY MARTYRED, 5 INDIAN-PROXY TERRORISTS KILLED IN DEADLY BANNU ATTACK
Alieutenant colonel and a sepoy were martyred in a suicide attack during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Saturday, the military’s media wing said. In a statement, the Interservices Public Relations (ISPR)...
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PAKISTAN, US AGREE TO ENHANCE BILATERAL TRADE, ECONOMIC TIES AND COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION
US SECRETARY OF STATE THANKS PAKISTAN FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP’S GAZA PEACE PLAN AND JOINING ‘BOARD OF PEACE’ AS FOUNDING MEMBER PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, with discussions focused on...
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AT TRUMP’S BOARD OF PEACE, PM URGES END TO GAZA CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS FOR ‘LASTING PEACE’
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, speaking at the inaugural meeting of the President Trump-led Board of Peace, underscored the urgent need for ending ceasefire violations in Gaza, calling it “critical” for lasting peace in the war-torn...
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PAKISTAN SUPPORTS IAEA’S ROLE IN PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE USE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: PM
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reaffirmed Pakistan’s support for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) role in the promotion of responsible use of nuclear technology during an official visit to Vienna. “Premier Shehbaz Sharif reaffirms...
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PAKISTAN, AUSTRIA AGREE TO DEEPEN BILATERAL COOPERATION
PAKISTAN and Austria on Monday agreed to further strengthen bilateral relations as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker in Vienna. The premier arrived in the Austrian capital a day earlier on a two-day official visit...
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Govt to shift Imran to hospital, forms Medical Board as TTAP sit-in enters day two
The government on Saturday announced that jailed Imran Khan would be shifted to a hospital for medical treatment and that a medical board would be constituted to examine him, as a protest sit-in by the Tehreek-e-tahfuz-ayeen-e-pakistan (TTAP) outside...
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OPPOSITION STAGES PARLIAMENT SIT-IN OVER IMRAN’S HEALTH, GOVT DENIES NEGLIGENCE
Aday after claims surfaced that jailed PTI founder Imran Khan has lost most of the vision in his right eye, the opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz-iayeen Pakistan (TTAP) launched a sit-in outside Parliament House on Friday, vowing to continue until he...
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PM ORDERS NEPRA APPEAL TO ‘PROTECT’ EXISTING SOLAR USERS AMID ‘NEW REGULATIONS’
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the Power Division to immediately file an appeal with the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to review the “new solar regulations,” in a bid to protect existing contracts for current...
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PM SHEHBAZ HAILS RAQAMI ISLAMIC DIGITAL BANK LICENCE AS MILESTONE IN PAKISTAN–KUWAIT ECONOMIC TIES
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday termed the granting of a commercial licence to Raqami Islamic Digital Bank a landmark development for Pakistan’s financial sector and a major step towards deepening economic cooperation with Kuwait. Addressing...
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SHEHBAZ UNVEILS $1B AI PUSH BY 2030, CALLS INDUS AI WEEK A ‘GAME-CHANGER’ FOR PAKISTAN
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced an ambitious plan to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, declaring that Pakistan was ready to embrace emerging technologies and compete globally in the digital...
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FINMIN, WB MD DISCUSS $20B CPF, DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
FEDERAL Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held a series of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the Alula Conference 2026 for Emerging Market Economies in Saudi Arabia, underscoring Pakistan’s commitment to strengthening...
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MASTERMIND, FACILITATORS OF ‘INDIAN-SPONSORED’ ISLAMABAD IMAMBARAGH ATTACK LASSOED FROM KP: NAQVI
FEDERAL Minister for Interior Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday accused India of “financing and directing” terrorist networks operating from Afghan soil, revealing that four facilitators of the Islamabad imambargah suicide attack— including the main...
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31 KILLED, 169 INJURED IN SUICIDE ATTACK DURING FRIDAY PRAYERS; STATE VOWS FULL FORCE RESPONSE
AT least 31 worshippers were killed and 169 others injured when a suicide bomber attacked Imambargah Khadijahtul Kubra in the Tarlai area on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers with the authorities claimed to have identified the attacker...
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PAK-UZBEKISTAN SEAL ‘HISTORIC $2B TRADE DEAL,’ 29 MOUS AS PRESIDENT MIRZIYOYEV ARRIVES IN ISLAMABAD
PAKISTAN and Uzbekistan on Thursday agreed to elevate bilateral trade to $2 billion over the next five years, signing 29 memoranda of understanding (Mous) and agreements on the first day of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s two-day state visit to...
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Kazakhstan President arrives on two-day visit with agenda to bolster bilateral ties
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to fostering friendly relations with Libya as a high-level Libyan delegation called on him at the Prime Minister’s House, state media reported. According to state-broadcaster...
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ASIF CALLS FOR ‘MASSIVE TROOP DEPLOYMENT’ IN BALOCHISTAN DUE TO ‘GRAVE SECURITY CHALLENGE’
DEFENCE Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday that Pakistan was compelled to deploy large numbers of troops in Balochistan due to the province’s vast geographical expanse and the severity of the security situation, particularly in the wake of a recent...
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92 INDIAN-PROXY TERRORISTS KILLED, 15 JAWANS MARTYRED AS FORCES FOIL SPATE OF ATTACKS
SECURITY forced neutralized 92 terrorists of Indian proxy Finta al-hindustan (FAH) while responding to multiple attacks across Balochistan while 18 civilians and 15 jawan embraced martyrdom in what Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi described as “Indian...
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POWER TARIFF SLASHED, EXPORT FINANCE CUT AS PM UNVEILS EXPORT-LED GROWTH PUSH TO REVIVE ECONOMY
PRIME Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Friday announced major relief measures for Pakistan’s industrial and export sectors, including a Rs 4.04 per unit cut in electricity tariffs for industry and a reduction in wheeling charges to below Rs 9....
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PAKISTAN BACKS IRAN AT UNHRC, VOTES AGAINST MANDATE EXTENSION: PM
IN a bid to help defuse tensions between Iran and US, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday spoke with Iranian President Dr Masoud Pezeshkian, with both leaders exchanging views on the evolving regional situation and underscoring the need for...
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KP CM DEMANDS RELEASE OF ‘CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED’ FUNDS, WARNS OF FISCAL CRISIS
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accusing the federal government of a “persistent failure” to release constitutionally guaranteed funds and demanding the “full and unconditional” payment...
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GUL PLAZA FIRE TOLL RISES TO 73 AMID CALLS FOR JUDICIAL PROBE, RELIEF TO TRADERS
THE death toll from the tragic Gul Plaza fire rose to 73 on Sunday after the recovery of two more bodies, while families continued to mourn the loss of their loved ones as funeral of some victims was offered in Karachi and Sukkur. Police Surgeon Dr...
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