Three sisters of PTI founder Imran Khan were being held in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Monday under 30-day detention orders, after a sequence of detentions that unfolded in less than a day and sharply raised the political temperature just days before the party’s planned September 27 march on Islamabad. Aleema Khan was the first to...
Saudi Arabia intercepted a Houthi drone before it entered Mecca this week, the first security alert of its kind in Islam's holiest city in nearly a decade.
Pakistani couturier Parishae Adnan closed Flying Solo’s New York Fashion Week show this week with Second Skin, an eight look sustainable couture collection built almost entirely from garments that had already lived a previous life, marking one of the more striking Pakistani presences on the global fashion calendar this season and offering a rare instance...
Pakistan’s petrol price has climbed by roughly Rs28 per litre since the start of September, according to fuel price tracking confirmed in Thursday’s 11am headlines, as the country’s newly adopted daily pricing mechanism continues to push pump rates upward in near-constant, incremental steps rather than the larger, more predictable fortnightly revisions consumers were accustomed to...
The heatwave gripping Karachi shows little sign of easing, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department forecasting temperatures as high as 40 degrees Celsius today, though residents in the city’s suburban belts could catch some relief from isolated afternoon showers. According to the Met Office, the maximum temperature in the city is expected to remain between 38...
An International Monetary Fund mission will arrive in Pakistan on September 23 to conduct a biannual review of the country’s economic performance under its $7 billion Extended Fund Facility and $1.4 billion Resilience and Sustainability Facility, marking the next major checkpoint in a lending programme that has become central to Pakistan’s fiscal management and, increasingly,...
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has said petrol prices could fall by as much as Rs106 per litre if the government abolishes the petroleum levy and removes certain taxes on the commodity, as his party’s weeks-long protest campaign against fuel prices heads toward a critical government meeting on Thursday. Speaking on Geo News’...
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s planned address at a PTI rally in Karachi was thrown into uncertainty on Sunday as authorities blocked several key arteries across the city, causing massive traffic disruption and repeatedly delaying his arrival from Hyderabad. Afridi’s caravan left Hyderabad before sunset but ran into roadblocks almost immediately on its route toward...
A 64-year-old Pakistani national has won the Dh15 million grand prize in Abu Dhabi’s Big Ticket Series 290 live draw, a jackpot worth roughly Rs1.14 billion, after purchasing lottery tickets for the same draw regularly for the past 15 years without success. Shaukat Aftab, based in Pakistan, held winning ticket number 245556, which was drawn...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally assumed the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on behalf of Pakistan on Tuesday, using his address at the SCO Council of Heads of State summit in Bishkek to lay out the country’s priorities for its one-year term, from artificial intelligence and energy cooperation to poverty reduction and disaster management....