Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani has resigned as a judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC), ending a judicial career that began at the Islamabad High Court in 2015 and took a turn when he was transferred to Lahore in April. Sources told Geo News that he stepped down for “personal reasons,” and no official explanation...
Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was in Tehran this week for the second time in a week, this time alongside Saudi Arabia’s defence minister and Turkiye’s intelligence chief, in a meeting that brought the three members of the Makkah defence pact face to face with Iranian leaders for the first time since Houthi...
LPG prices in Pakistan have climbed to nearly twice the official rate, distributors and consumers say, as the closure of two border crossings with Iran cuts off a major supply route just as winter demand begins to build. Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik told parliament on Monday that the border closure was one of the...
Pakistan has rejected allegations by the Afghan Taliban authorities that its counter-terrorism operations have killed civilians, calling the claims baseless and unsubstantiated and saying its actions in Afghanistan are an exercise of the right to self-defence. The statement, issued by the Foreign Office on Monday, comes amid an already tense period in relations between Islamabad...
Senior lawyer and Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) member Ahsan Bhoon has filed a Rs5 billion defamation claim against retired Captain Muhammad Safdar in the Punjab Defamation Tribunal, escalating a dispute that began over the authenticity of his law degree and has since drawn in the country’s top legal institutions. The tribunal has declared the...
Pakistan has suspended commercial trade with Iran through two of its main border crossings, Gabd-Rimdan and Taftan, citing security and smuggling concerns. The decision, which has stranded hundreds of trucks and raised fears for LPG supplies, was described by officials as temporary, but no reopening date has been announced. The Ministry of Commerce withdrew its...
Tauqeer Nazir, accused of running over 15-year-old orphan Waseem Abbas in Multan, was killed in a reported exchange of fire with the Crime Control Department in Bahawalpur after allegedly escaping police custody. His death closes one chapter of a case that has angered much of the country over the past few days. It also leaves...
Islamabad authorities have closed two of the capital’s biggest weekly bazaars, H-9 and G-6, from October 16 until they meet fire safety requirements, a decision that comes just as the interior minister told the Senate that the H-9 market has suffered eight fires since 2017 with total losses of around Rs60 crore. The Directorate of...
Pakistan has recorded the highest hunger score in South Asia in the 2026 Global Hunger Index, according to Dawn, a finding that points to a worsening food security crisis in a country where the cost of living has already become a central political issue. The report, released on Wednesday, landed the day before World Food...
The Peshawar High Court has admitted hearing the petitions challenging the emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, setting October 20 as the date for detailed arguments. The decision moves the confrontation over the province from Parliament, where the government secured its approval this week, into a courtroom, where the legal basis of the intervention...