PAKISTAN BREAKING NEWS

Smog engulfed Pakistani skies on Wednesday as air quality continued to hover in the “hazardous” category, according to IQAir. Of the major cities globally, IQAir ranked Lahore as the most polluted again on Wednesday, between 11am to noon, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 425, with levels above…

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan was again taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) for tests and follow-up treatment for his eye condition, a hospital official told Dawn on Wednesday. “Imran Khan was brought from the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi to Pims in…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to highlight Pakistan’s climate priorities at the COP31 Antalya Leaders’ Summit in Turkiye today, with other world leaders joining him in setting out their climate priorities. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Mediterranean resort city of…

India’s air pollution monitors were overwhelmed this week by toxic smog so severe that concentrations exceeded their upper measurement limit, equivalent to 66 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended daily maximum, regulators said. The admission comes after opposition politicians accused…

At Orient Craft’s factory in Ranchi, hundreds of women stitch dresses, shirts and children’s clothing for British retailers ​Next and Marks & Spencer. Not long ago, most of Orient Craft’s output would have gone to the US. But founder Sudhir Dhingra, 77, has cut shipments there since ‌the US hiked…

GAZIPUR: Before dawn ​each day, garment worker Shilpi Khatun cooks over a wood-fired clay stove because her family cannot afford gas, before ‌heading to a factory in Gazipur, an industrial hub on the outskirts of Dhaka. The 27-year-old is the sole breadwinner in a household where her husband is…

A federal judge allowed US President Donald Trump’s multi-billion dollar defamation suit against the BBC to proceed on Tuesday, rejecting a bid by the British broadcaster to dismiss the case. Trump has accused the BBC of deceptively editing a documentary to make it seem as if he was inciting…

SINGAPORE: Nvidia, which is powering the global artificial intelligence revolution with the chips it makes, is investigating if its chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, was the target of foreign spying. This comes after media reports in October alleged that the Taiwan-born technology maverick had…

President Donald Trump’s political mantra is “fight, fight, fight.” But he has given decidedly mixed messages about whether he will do so after Republicans were hammered in the midterms. In the week since becoming a lame duck , Trump named the hardline architect of his migration crackdown as his…

GROWING inequality is a serious economic and social issue. Internally, we tend to treat poverty and inequality as separate problems. They are closely connected but not identical. Poverty is about deprivation; inequality is about how income, wealth, opportunities, and economic power are…

SLEAZE, bribery, and secret alliances allegedly marked Trump’s Middle East policy in his first term, and set him on the road to an illegal and unwinnable war against Iran in his second. The central characters in that sordid set of machinations were his own son-in-law and senior adviser Jared…

ISLAMABAD: Defying a summons from the Na­­tional Accountability Bu­­reau (NAB), Asad Meh­m­ood, son of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Mau­lana Fazlur Rahman, fai­­led to appear before the anti-graft watchdog on Monday in a case concerning alle­ged irregularities in appoi­ntments at Pakistan…

THE opposition alliance TTAP has hinted at another anti-government drive . Its recent talks with the JUI-F on parliamentary coordination indicate that the party’s chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman is poised to lead the campaign. All this raises obvious questions: is the opposition seriously planning an…

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast rain, wind and thunderstorms, with snowfall over the hills, in the upper parts of the country over the next two to three days, urging the authorities concerned to take precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident,…

Republicans in the US House of Representatives blocked an effort on Tuesday to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, winning a reprieve for the polarising Pentagon chief before Democrats take control of Congress next year and possibly try again. The vote on a procedural motion came just hours…

ISLAMABAD: The Pub­lic Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday propo­sed deferring the privatisation of power companies, expected to take place in January, until their assets, machinery, land and other properties are properly assessed and revalued to prevent potential losses to the national exchequer.…

LAHORE: A sessions court on Tuesday indicted eight suspects, including one reportedly linked to a senior minister, in a case of alleged gang rape of two foreign women. All the suspects, presently in judicial custody, were produced before the trial court for the indictment proceedings. Additional…

ISLAMABAD: The country’s Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) spending in the first four months of the current fiscal year struggled at only 10 per cent of the annual allocation. Total PSDP spending in the first four months (July-October) of 2026-27 amounted to Rs103.87bn — 10.4pc of the…

• Says no public money lost in procurement controversy • Claims Rs183 million collected from applicants remains in Nadra’s account ISLAMABAD: Amid allegations of irregularities in vaccine procurement, Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday claimed that not a single rupee of public money…

• Strength at home and effective diplomacy abroad key to confronting emerging world order, Dar tells Margalla Dialogue • University of Chicago scholar says US can’t win Iran war; claims Washington complicit in Palestinian ‘genocide’ by Israel • Urges Pakistan to capitalise on ties with both US and…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Antalya, Turkiye, on Tuesday for a three-day visit to attend the Leaders’ Summit of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP 31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Upon arrival, the prime minister was received by Turkiye’s…

A first day of US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi ended on Tuesday, with Washington calling for a “new” security framework, as Europe fears US President Donald Trump plans a deal with Moscow on the continent’s future. Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff brought together…

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday shifted the second Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka from Lahore to Rawalpindi amid worsening smog conditions in the Punjab capital. According to an official announcement issued by the PCB, the match, originally scheduled to be played in Lahore from…

Pakistan fuel prices, 2026 Official ex-depot prices (PKR/litre) — OGRA & Ministry of Energy notifications Petrol (MS-92) Diesel (HSD) Pre-crisis baseline Source: OGRA / Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division); Dawn.com · .fpw-root { --fpw-navy: #0a2240; --fpw-red: #b5341a; --fpw-grey:…

Israel’s parliament was sworn in on Tuesday without a new government, after a deadlocked general election stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority but left his main rivals with no clear path to power. Lawmakers elected in the Oct 27 vote took their oaths of office as…

For the generation that I belong to, watching matches that gave you near-confirmed heart attacks was the norm. Whether it was the Chennai Test of 1999 against India, the Multan Test of 2003 against Bangladesh, the inaugural T20 World Cup final against India, or Saeed Ajmal’s brutal bashing at the…