Parliament has completed its approval of the emergency and governor’s rule imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a joint sitting on Thursday backing the federal government’s move over the protests of PTI and other opposition lawmakers. The vote closes the first constitutional stage of one of the most contentious decisions of the year and shifts the...
Karachi is going through one of its worst stretches of power outages in recent months, with residents in several neighbourhoods reporting cuts of 16 to 18 hours a day. The timing makes the situation harder to explain. Barely six weeks ago, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) declared K-Electric’s loss-based load shedding illegal and...
Journalist and Awam Raj Tehreek chief Iqrar ul Hassan has been sent into the custody of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) for four days, a little over a day after his family said he was taken from his Lahore home by unidentified men and that his whereabouts were unknown. The sequence of events,...
The federal government has imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, placing the province run by Imran Khan’s PTI under direct central oversight in the middle of the party’s long march. Within hours, Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was reported to be in custody, leaving the country facing a constitutional confrontation whose outcome is...
Sahibzada Farhan has won his first series as Pakistan’s T20I captain, and he has done it with the bat as much as with the whistle. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 82 runs in the second T20I at Rawalpindi on Sunday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, with Farhan and Maaz Sadaqat...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has taken its long march to the streets. After two rounds of negotiations with the government failed to produce an agreement, the party set out on Sunday, October 4, from Gandi Chowk in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat, with Chief Minister Sohail Afridi leading the first phase. The march was first called for...
Pakistan will play two of the biggest matches of its 2026 Asian Games campaign within 24 hours of each other on October 1, taking on Bangladesh in the men’s cricket semi-final in Nisshin, Japan, before its hockey team walks out against arch-rivals India in Kakamigahara in a semi-final that carries its own separate weight of...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stood on the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange this week and made a claim that Pakistani governments have made many times before, in one form or another: the economy is fixed, the hard part is over, and the numbers prove it. He became the first Pakistani premier to open...
Pakistan’s security forces have killed more than 71 militants across Balochistan over a 96-hour stretch, the military’s media wing said, in what officials are describing as one of the most intensive counter-terrorism pushes in the province in recent months, and one that has drawn direct praise from both the president and prime minister. According to...
The federal government collected Rs99 billion more than its budgeted petroleum levy target for the fiscal year ending June 2026, according to Finance Ministry data, a fiscal overperformance that arrives at a strikingly convenient moment, just as Pakistan opens formal negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on its next loan tranche. Official figures show the...