PAKISTAN BREAKING NEWS

ISLAMABAD: The Senate echoed with fuel supply concerns on Friday as PPP’s Sherry Rehman questioned petrol availability for December and Opposition Leader Raja Nasir Abbas warned of a bleak situation amid heightening Middle East tensions. The concerns were raised even after Minister of State for…

KARACHI: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) prevented a teenage girl in Karachi from causing self-harm after she was influenced by a group operating on the dark web, an official told Dawn on Friday. NCCIA Karachi Additional Director Tariq Nawaz said action by the agency was taken…

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Pakistan’s “rising diplomatic profile in the resolution of regional and global disputes”, in a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari in Berlin on Friday. President Zardari is currently on a three-day visit to Germany, having departed yesterday, as…

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:…

Developments in the Gulf region amid the US-Israeli war on Iran came under discussion as the R4 foreign ministers — Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye — met with their counterparts from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. The R4 group, comprising Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and…

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have completed the ratification processes for the Makkah defence pact while Turkiye was in the process of doing so, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan said on Friday. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement in August,…

LAHORE: The Lahore deputy commissioner (DC) on Friday gave the formal go-ahead for three-day Basant festivities in the district from March 12-14 next year, outlining guidelines, conditions and restrictions for the celebrations. Basant returned to Lahore earlier this year after an 18-year hiatus,…

ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation rose to 11.85 per cent year-on-year in the week ending October 22, driven largely by wheat flour prices, according to official data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday. The index, which comprises 51 items whose prices are collected from 50…

The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by this week’s PHP software glitch , as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires. Governments and businesses worldwide have rushed to…

Republican US Senate candidate Mike Rogers and allies including President Donald Trump are escalating their efforts to tie Democratic rival Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood less than two weeks before the Nov 3 midterms , with Trump falsely branding him a “jihadist.” Pollsters and political…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday set the illustrative price for wheat at Rs4,500 per maund for 2027, raising the procurement price set last year by Rs1,000. “In view of the increase in production costs, the price had been raised by Rs1,000 per maund compared to last year,” a statement by the…

Oil prices rose on Friday, with Brent crude touching a more than five-month high, after Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia stoked concern over further disruption to energy supplies from the Middle East. Brent crude futures gained $1.40, or 1.2 per cent, to $114.57 a barrel by 1138 GMT (4:38pm PKT),…

PAKISTAN’S draft auto policy 2026-31 is ambitious in its targets and directionless in its strategy. It promises electrification, export growth, greater competition, and stronger local manufacturing. However, some of its most consequential incentives threaten to undermine these very goals. The…

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday that 10 India-sponsored terrorists were killed in separate engagements as security forces thwarted their attempts to “undermine the writ of the state” in Balochistan’s Gwadar district. In a statement, the military’s media affairs wing said: “On…

ISLAMABAD: A state-appointed counsel on Friday cross-examined all prosecution witnesses in a security breach case against lawyers Imaan Zainab Hazir-Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha. Imaan and her husband, Hadi, are facing a jail trial in a 2024 case pertaining to the alleged disruption of an…

The signing of the Badr Memorandum of Understanding by Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar and Indonesia in Doha on Wednesday is the latest manifestation of Middle Eastern states accelerated efforts for diversifying their defense partnerships amid growing doubts about the reliability of existing security…

An insulin product used by patients with Type 1 diabetes is in short supply in Pakistan after its German manufacturer halted supplies while upgrading its products, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Nelson Azeem said on Friday. Responding to a matter raised by MNA Syeda Amna Batool in the National…

Greece’s parliament passed a law on Friday banning children under 15 from social media, joining a growing number of countries imposing curbs on young people’s use of the apps. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced plans for the ban in April, taking to TikTok — one of the most popular social…

Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir has said the armed forces will continue the counterterrorism campaign against Indian-sponsored terrorist groups “to the fullest”, vowing to “hit them hard wherever they are”, the military’s media wing said on Friday. CDF…

China ordered an “all-out” rescue effort in Tibet on Friday after an earthquake killed at least 16 people, injured dozens and flattened hundreds of homes, state media reported. Footage showed rescue workers with torches clambering in the dark through some of the more than 300 houses that Xinhua…

An attack in the occupied West Bank wounded at least five Israelis on Friday and triggered a shootout that left two Palestinians dead, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel political events days ahead of elections. An AFP journalist who witnessed the firefight saw two Palestinian…

Sales of Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo , began on Friday, with market watchers betting on whether the device can reinvent the small foldables market in the same way the iPhone did for smartphones. The Duo’s reception could prove an early test for new CEO John Ternus , the former…

Lahore ranked as the world’s most polluted city on Friday, with its air quality classified as “hazardous”, according to air quality monitoring platform IQAir. In the past few years, air pollution has become one of the most pressing public health and environmental crises facing Pakistan. Various…

Almost all of Taiwan shut down on Friday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Champi, which is forecast to bring strong winds and torrential rain, and though the storm is weakening it could still make direct landfall on the island. At one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the…

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday opened the direct signings window for all eight HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchises and unveiled the pre-season roadmap for the 12th edition of the tournament, which will be held from March 18 to May 2 next year. The player-movement cycle has begun…

ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Thursday indicted an accused arrested in connection with the murder of Group Captain Asim Tariq, and summoned prosecution witnesses to record their statements. Judge Abual Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain of the ATC conducted the hearing, during which the…