The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) says around 350 call centres in Karachi are involved in scamming, as it announced the arrest of 273 people in a single raid on Shahrah-e-Faisal, where a court has since freed women and minors on bail. The nine key suspects have been handed to the agency for two...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) says jailed founder Imran Khan’s blood pressure has not returned to normal, citing a reading of 192, and has demanded his immediate transfer from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital for treatment under his personal physicians. The claim has not been independently confirmed, and the coverage reviewed includes no public response...
A meeting between jailed PTI founder Imran Khan and his lawyer, Barrister Salman Safdar, at Adiala Jail has produced competing accounts of what the former prime minister knew and how he reacted to the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The differences matter because the meeting was one of the few direct...
The government has cut petrol and diesel prices for the third consecutive day, bringing petrol down to Rs362.00 per litre and high-speed diesel to Rs387.81 per litre from November 5. Taken together, the three revisions have taken Rs15.91 off the price of petrol and Rs15.15 off diesel since the start of the week, the sharpest...
Pakistan has conducted the first flight test of its indigenously developed Fa’az air-to-air missile, the military’s media wing announced on Tuesday, describing the test as a milestone for the country’s aerospace and defence capabilities. The announcement is significant for what it signals about local weapons development, though many technical details remain undisclosed. According to a...
The government has cut the price of petrol by Rs3.40 per litre and high-speed diesel by Rs7.76 per litre, bringing relief of a modest kind to motorists, transporters and farmers who have been paying close to Rs400 for diesel. The new prices, announced by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Monday night, took...
A mother in Nawabshah arrived at a press club this week with her four children and announced that she would sell them to pay off a debt she says she cannot meet. The announcement, reported by Daily Pakistan and other outlets, is alarming on its face. It is also a window into how poverty, debt...
Legal harassment has become a leading threat to journalists in Pakistan, with cybercrime investigations, repeated summonses and prolonged court proceedings increasingly used to pressure media workers even when no conviction follows, according to Freedom Network’s annual Impunity Report 2026. The report, titled “From Violence to Lawfare: Process as Punishment for Journalists,” was released on Thursday...
Pakistan’s security forces have prevented Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) from establishing a permanent operational footprint inside the country, according to an assessment carried by the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), which says 67 major operations over the past three to four years have left more than 50 militants dead and over 100 arrested. The...
A fire tore through a furniture market near Kamran Chowrangi in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar on Friday, spreading to a nearby residential building before firefighters brought it under control. No casualties were reported, but shopkeepers say they suffered losses worth crores of rupees, and they have raised questions about how long it took fire tenders to reach...