Pakistan

Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, has enforced revised business operating hours, requiring markets and shopping centres to shut by 8 pm from Monday as part of an austerity drive aimed at reducing energy consumption amid soaring fuel costs…
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Facing backlash from critics and “extremists” on social media, the provincial government of Pakistan’s Punjab has deferred its decision to restore several pre-Partition Hindu and British-era names of roads and localities in Lahore,…
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US President Donald Trump said aboard Air Force One that Washington agreed to the Iran ceasefire “as a favour” to Pakistan, while praising Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “We really did the ceasefire at…
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China has urged Pakistan to intensify mediation efforts between Iran and the United States and help ensure the “proper” reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to Chinese state media. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the appeal…
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India on Tuesday sharply criticised China over reports that Beijing extended technical support to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, saying countries shielding terror infrastructure must consider the impact on their global credibility.…
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India’s aerial offensive over Pakistan last summer was neither the nuclear near-miss later projected by Washington nor the limited skirmish Pakistan portrayed online. According to journalist Shishir Gupta, Operation Sindoor was a…
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The United Nations said Tuesday it has documented dozens of civilian casualties following strikes in Afghanistan a day earlier, with Taliban officials blaming neighboring Pakistan for the attacks. According to UN figures, hundreds of…
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There are no children left in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where a school has been shattered by shelling and its playground lies empty after weeks of fighting with Pakistan. Nearly all of the village’s 8,000 residents fled when…
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A covert investigation has reportedly exposed serious lapses in medical safety at a government hospital in Pakistan, where unsafe injection practices may have led to HIV infections among children. According to footage cited by the BBC,…
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The White House is pivoting from military pressure to diplomacy, with Donald Trump dispatching a high-level delegation led by Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan for the first round of US-Iran talks this Saturday. Press Secretary Karoline…
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