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...
Pakistan’s annual inflation slowed to 9.61% in October from 10.26% in September, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), but the figure masks a sharp monthly rise in food prices and a four-month average that has more than doubled compared with last year. The data, released on Monday, offers some relief on the direction...
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...
Eighteen days after the federal government imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province is being run through an unusual mix of arrangements: a governor assisted by an advisory council, special emergency measures in 12 districts, a court case that will not be heard again for another two weeks, and an elected...
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...