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• DPM Dar, Jordanian counterpart discuss deteriorating situation in occupied West Bank

  Dawn - 11:52 Aug 05, 2026
  

  Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met his Jordanian counterpart on Wednesday, with the “deteriorating situation in the occupied West Bank” coming under discussion, according to the Foreign Office (FO). The FO said Dar met Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi on the sidelines of a Ministerial Meeting in Amman to discuss the situation in occupied Jerusalem. The FO said that the foreign ministers exchanged views on regional developments, in particular on the deteriorating situation in the occupied West Bank. Dar appreciated Jordan’s role in safeguarding the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and its support for the Palestinian people, it added. “The two leaders welcomed the growing momentum in Pakistan–Jordan bilateral relations and reaffirmed [their commitment] to further enhancing cooperation across political, defence, economic, educational, cultural and people-to-people domains,” it added. Dar and Safadi also discussed the si...

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• Michigan primary puts Democratic divide on the ballot

  Dawn - 11:34 Aug 05, 2026
  

  US Democrats are awaiting results from their marquee primary in Michigan on Wednesday morning, with the contest between a left-wing insurgent and an establishment-backed congresswoman becoming a proxy war over Israel, electability, and the future of the national party. Hours after polls closed, leftist Abdul El-Sayed held a narrow lead over centrist Haley Stevens, with the race too close to call. With 95 per cent of votes counted, NBC was the only major US media outlet to call the race as of 6:50am (3:50pm PKT), projecting a win for El-Sayed. The winner will face former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in November for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters, a race central to the party’s difficult effort to win control of the Senate. Democrats must defend Michigan while gaining four Republican-held seats to control the upper chamber, making the primary more than an ideological exercise in a state that has swung between the two parties in recent national elections. Analysts say the ...

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• Pakistan, US hold counter-terrorism dialogue, reaffirm commitment to combating terrorist groups

  Dawn - 11:23 Aug 05, 2026
  

  WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan on Tuesday held the fourth counter-terrorism dialogue in Washington, reaffirming their commitment to combating terrorist groups and strengthening security cooperation at a time when regional tensions remain high. The talks were led by US Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Gregory LoGerfo and Foreign Ministry Special Secretary Ambassador Nabeel Munir, a joint statement released by the US State Department said. “The dialogue underscored shared interests in the US-Pakistan counter-terrorism partnership and the two countries’ determination to confront terrorism,” the joint statement said. “Delegations exchanged views on the current threat environment, explored avenues to enhance collaboration, and discussed steps to strengthen border security and disrupt terrorist facilitation networks,” it added. The statement specifically named ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), Al Qaeda, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its affiliates a...

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• AJK elections: PML-N, PPP secure one seat each following delayed polls in Muzaffarabad constituencies

  Dawn - 10:12 Aug 05, 2026
  

  MUZAFFARABAD: The PML-N and PPP have secured one seat each in the two constituencies of Muzaffarabad division where polling was held on Tuesday after being fully or partially deferred due to landslides and adverse weather that blocked roads and prevented the timely dispatch of polling staff and election material. The contest was part of the second phase of elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), during which candidates vied for seats in Muzaffarabad division and 12 seats reserved for refugees from India-occupied Kashmir. According to official results released by the AJK Election Commission, PML-N’s Noreen Arif bagged the LA-27 (Kutla) seat with 18,919 votes, beating first runner-up, Sardar Tabarak Ali of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) by 298 votes. PPP’s Sardar Javed Ayoub was the second runner-up, with 18,037 votes. Meanwhile, PPP’s Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi bagged 28,214 votes to win the LA-28 (Lachhrat) seat, where PML-N’s Chaudhry Shahzad Mahmood secured 26,866 votes to emerge as the first runner-up. T...

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• Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon

  Dawn - 10:05 Aug 05, 2026
  

  A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning, though the impact was unlikely to be confirmed for at least several hours. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025. Weighing four metric tons, the rocket body had been due to hit the moon around 2:35am ET (11:35am PKT), travelling at 5,400 miles per hour, but none of the spacecraft orbiting the moon were expected to be in a position to capture images of the impact live. The space junk would have kicked up a plume of lunar dust that would likely be illuminated by sunlight but difficult to spot with the naked eye from Earth. It was likely to be at least several hours before scientists would be able to confirm the crash by studying images from telescopes in the Americas, the BBC reported. The impact was unintentional, SpaceX said. The rocket piece was e...

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• LHC disposes of PTI petition for rally at Minar-i-Pakistan after DC refuses permission

  Dawn - 08:30 Aug 05, 2026
  

  LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday disposed of a petition filed by PTI seeking permission to hold a public rally at Minar-i-Pakistan after it was informed that the deputy commissioner had denied the request. The PTI announced it would stage countrywide protests today (Wednesday) to mark three years since the imprisonment of party founder Imr­an Khan and demand his release, with a gathering in Peshawar serving as the centrepiece of its campaign. On Wednesday, Justice Mirza Viqas Rauf heard the petition filed by PTI Lahore President Mian Akram Usman seeking permission for the Minar-i-Pakistan rally. At the outset of the hearing, the judge directed a law officer to seek instructions from the deputy commissioner. When the hearing resumed, the law officer appeared before the court, saying the deputy commissioner had rejected the petitioner’s application at a high-level meeting. He argued that permission for the rally could not be granted in view of potential terrorist threats in Lahore. Justice Rauf ...

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• Karachi police register case under terrorism law following scuffle at MQM-P's Karachi headquarters

  Dawn - 08:15 Aug 05, 2026
  

  Karachi police have registered a case under terrorism charges following a scuffle between two groups at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s headquarters in Karachi on Sunday. The first information report, dated August 4 and a copy of which is available with Dawn, was registered at the New Town police station on behalf of the state, through Assistant Sub-Inspector Mirza Anwar Baig. It invoked Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly, guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 337-A(i) (shajjah-i-khafifah or injuring someone’s head or face), 337H(ii) (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent act), 324 (attempt to murder), and 188 (disobedience to an order lawfully promulgated by a public servant) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Two named suspects, identified as Azhar alias Lumba and Zeeshan Habib, and 20-25 unidentified individuals h...

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• IHC moved over delay in presidential nod for judicial appointments

  Dawn - 08:08 Aug 05, 2026
  

  ISLAMABAD: A writ petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday, challenging President Asif Ali Zardari’s delay in assenting to a summary forwarded by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the appointment and confirmation of judges to various high courts. The petition, filed by advocate Luqman Zafar Chaudhary through his counsel Zahid Asif Chaudhry, urged the court to direct the president to approve the summary forwarded by the prime minister for the appointment of 19 additional judges and the confirmation of five judges to the Islamabad, Lahore, Sindh, Balochistan and Peshawar high courts. The JCP, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi, recommended the names during meetings held on July 20 and 21 after following the procedure laid down under Article 175A of the Constitution. The summary was subsequently forwarded by the prime minister to the president for assent under Article 48 of the Constitution. According to the petitioner, the oath-taking ceremony for the newly recommended jud...

• The viral videos that inspired tens of thousands to swim from Morocco to Spain’s Ceuta

  Dawn - 06:50 Aug 05, 2026
  

  Last week’s rush of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta began with a trickle. Encouraged by a handful of viral videos, ​including some posted by a Spanish news outlet intended to highlight the burden of migration pressures, the movement of a few dozen youths quickly turned into ‌tens of thousands swimming en masse by last Thursday. More than 80 people drowned or were crushed in a stampede, according to official tallies. A catalyst came three weeks earlier, when Spain’s Supreme Court published a ruling saying migrants caught at sea could not be immediately pushed back at the border of Spain’s North African territories of Ceuta and Melilla. The ruling does not preclude their summary return afterwards, legal experts said. View this post on Instagram Ceuta has long drawn ​migrants hoping to build a new life in Europe. But as misinterpretations of the ruling spread — including claims anyone who reached Ceuta, by sea or land, could not be ​returned — more and more people tried their luck. “Never believe thos...

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• Two young women suspected of petty theft die in Lahore police custody

  Dawn - 06:17 Aug 05, 2026
  

  LAHORE: Two young women, suspected of stealing a small amount of cash and gold jewellery from a house, later died in the police custody under mysterious circumstances here on Tuesday. The women were brought to the Township police station when a local resident accused them of stealing money and gold ornaments from his house. However, one of them was later shifted to Lytton Road police station. As per initial reports, health condition of both women worsened in police custody owing to reasons yet to be ascertained. The suspects were shifted to different hospitals, where doctors declared them “received dead,” adding to the concern of police authorities as they were already facing an odd situation following the alleged rape of a mentally challenged girl by a police official inside a police station in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. DIG claims the suspects died of drug overdose The complainant, Zeeshan Latif, alleged in the FIR that the women entered his house and asked his wife for water. He said when his wife went to fetch...

• Pakistan, US hold counterterrorism dialogue, reaffirm commitment to combating terrorist groups

  Dawn - 06:00 Aug 05, 2026
  

  WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan on Tuesday held the fourth counterterrorism dialogue in Washington, reaffirming their commitment to combating terrorist groups and strengthening security cooperation at a time when regional tensions remain high. The talks were led by US Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Gregory LoGerfo and Foreign Ministry Special Secretary Ambassador Nabeel Munir, a joint statement released by the US State Department said. “The dialogue underscored shared interests in the US-Pakistan counterterrorism partnership and the two countries’ determination to confront terrorism,” the joint statement said. “Delegations exchanged views on the current threat environment, explored avenues to enhance collaboration, and discussed steps to strengthen border security and disrupt terrorist facilitation networks,” it added. The statement specifically named ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), Al Qaeda, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its affiliates amo...

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• Trump warns Iran to open Strait of Hormuz or get 'hit very hard'

  Dawn - 05:32 Aug 05, 2026
  

  United States President Donald Trump said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as soon as Wednesday but warned Iran it would get “hit very hard” if negotiations fell through. Transit of the waterway, a key conduit for global oil and gas supplies, has been a sticking point in talks and led to renewed fighting following an April ceasefire. Iran has tightened its grip on Hormuz and wants to control the strait and charge tolls — powers it did not exercise before the war began on February 28. Trump said on Tuesday a deal with Iran to reopen Hormuz could happen “tomorrow or the next day,” telling reporters in California that negotiators “had a very good day”. Earlier, he struck a more threatening tone. “The strait is going to be open very soon, or they’re going to get hit very hard — and then the strait’s going to be open,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “All you can do is fight your way out.” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC earlier “there is a chance we may have a deal” by Wedn...

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• Pakistan close on series-levelling win against West Indies

  Dawn - 05:10 Aug 05, 2026
  

  Pakistan’s spinners put their team on course for a series-levelling victory as the West Indies stumbled to 103 for six — a lead of just 60 runs — on an eventful third day of the second and final Test in Trinidad on Tuesday. Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 160 ensured the visitors did not completely squander an excellent overnight platform in eventually getting to a first-innings total of 387. Sajid Khan then made his second meaningful contribution of the day in taking four second-innings wickets, while Ali Usman claimed two, including home captain Roston Chase caught-and-bowled off the final ball of the day. First-innings top-scorer Justin Greaves will carry the fight for the West Indies into the fourth morning with uncertainty over the availability to bat of regular opener Brandon King. On a deteriorating pitch offering sharp turn and variable bounce, West Indies left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican was as much in his element as 18 months earlier against these same opponents in Multan. Here, his haul of six for 112,...

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• The case for smaller administrative units in the age of AI

  Dawn - 04:59 Aug 05, 2026
  

  Let us be honest about something Pakistan’s governance discourse rarely says plainly: political parties do not want local governments to work. This is not a failure of will or capacity. It is a deliberate choice, repeated by every party in every province across every cycle of government, regardless of ideology, coalition or electoral mandate. Local bodies are constituted late, funded poorly, stripped of administrative authority and dissolved early. The pattern is too consistent, too cross-partisan and too durable to be accidental. It is policy by other means. A rival power centre The reason is straightforward. A functioning local government is a rival power centre. It has an electoral base, a budget, a staff and a mandate to deliver services that citizens can see and touch. It can build a political constituency independent of the provincial party machine. For parties whose power rests on controlling the distribution of roads, postings, contracts and patronage from the provincial capital, that is an existentia...

• Youm-i-Istehsal: Pakistan says lasting peace in South Asia linked to peaceful resolution of Kashmir dispute

  Dawn - 04:51 Aug 05, 2026
  

  The military and civilian leadership on Wednesday said just and lasting peace in South Asia was closely linked to the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute as the country marked Youm-i-Istehsal (Exploitation Day) to mark the anniversary of India revoking the occupied region’s special autonomy in 2019. President Asif Ali Zardari said that Youm-i-Istehsal was being observed to “reaffirm our unwavering solidarity” with the people of occupied Kashmir. “We pay tribute to their courage, resilience and commitment to their just struggle for the realisation of their inalienable right to self-determination,” he said. The president said that seven years have passed since India’s “illegal and unilateral actions” of August 5, 2019, when it revoked the region’s special autonomy. “These actions cannot change the legal status of the dispute, nor can they weaken the resolve of the Kashmiri people,” he said. “For seven years, millions of Kashmiris have continued to live under severe restrictions that have affected every a...

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• CJP Afridi promises women facilitation centres in courts nationwide

  Dawn - 03:31 Aug 05, 2026
  

  KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi on Tuesday said that women facilitation centres will be established in courts across the country to provide a safe, dignified, accessible and supportive environment for female litigants. He also stated that the proposed facilitation centres will include dedicated reception areas, waiting areas, separate entrances, washrooms, meeting rooms, alternative dispute resolution facilities, legal advisory services, psychosocial support services, and other essential support facilities designed to facilitate women litigants and visitors. The CJP was speaking to the women representatives of the Sindh High Court Bar Association and the Karachi Bar Association during a meeting held at the Supreme Court Karachi Registry. Sindh High Court Chief Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput as well as the presidents and secretaries of both bars were also present. CJP Afridi shared his vision for strengthening women-friendly judicial infrastructure and further said that pursuant to a decision...

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• Unravelling order

  Dawn - 03:27 Aug 05, 2026
  

  IT is not so much what he said as who said it. We all know that the existing political system has failed to deliver, but that admission coming from the all-powerful interior minister raises many questions. Mohsin Naqvi is himself a product of a system whose legitimacy he is now questioning. His statement points to the unravelling of the hybrid arrangement. What he said cannot be dismissed as merely his personal views, given his perceived association with the powers that be. Speaking at the Pakistan Economic Summit last week, the interior minister said the current system of governance had “collapsed” and that it was fundamentally incapable of resolving the country’s problems. He stressed the need for structural reform to address Pakistan’s mounting challenges. No one can disagree with Naqvi’s assertion. But his suggestion of creating new administrative units as a means of improving governance and his thinly veiled criticism of his own government’s policies have laid bare the fault lines within the hybrid polit...

• State of confusion

  Dawn - 03:26 Aug 05, 2026
  

  FROM the looks of it, America has no exit strategy to extricate itself from the disastrous war with Iran. US President Donald Trump has alternated between issuing bombastic threats to the Iranians, to claiming that peace was at hand, sometimes making a sharp U-turn within hours. This is not how responsible statecraft plays out. In the past, he had threatened to destroy Iranian civilisation, while more recently he said the US was ready to use “Military Terror … not seen since World War II” against the Islamic Republic. In his latest pronouncement, the US leader has given Iran a “last chance” to choose between a “deal [or] total surrender”. The five-month-old war has shown that the Iranians have mostly remained unfazed by Mr Trump’s threats. The chaos at the White House is understandable. Mr Trump jumped headfirst into the war on Feb 28 at Israel’s persuasion, without doing his homework. Perhaps if he had studied the mistakes his predecessors had made in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, he would have refrained from...

• Rethinking governance in Pakistan

  Dawn - 03:12 Aug 05, 2026
  

  EVERY few years, Pakistan revisits the debate on creating new provinces. The interior minister’s recent proposal to establish smaller administrative units has again raised an important question. Yet the real issue is not how many provinces Pa­­kistan should have. It is whether government is close enough to serve its citizens effectively. Adm­inistrative boundaries matter only because they influence how quickly people receive education, healthcare, justice, infrastructure and disaster relief. If governance remains distant and unresponsive, merely redrawing maps won’t improve lives. With over 240 million people spread across nearly 796,000 square kilometres, Pakistan is one of the world’s largest federations. Its administrative challenges vary enormously — from the mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan to the deserts of Thar and the vast expanse of Balochistan. A governance model suited to Lahore or Karachi cannot automatically meet the needs of Kech, Upper Kohistan or Astore. The real challenge is one of state capacit...

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• IHC suspends order for disclosure of cricketers’ salaries, perks

  Dawn - 02:58 Aug 05, 2026
  

  ISLAMABAD: The Isla­mabad High Court on Tuesday suspended a Pakistan Information Comm­ission (PIC) order that directed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to make public its annual budgets, audit reports, remuneration of national players, selection committee members, and expenditure on the T20 World Cup 2026. A single-member bench of Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar issued notices to respondents for September 22, 2026, while taking up a writ petition filed by the PCB through Advocate Kashif Ali Malik. The court stayed the operation of the PIC’s July 9 ruling until the next hearing. The PCB contended that the impugned order was passed in excess of jurisdiction and in violation of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017. It argued that the Commission had failed to distinguish between information liable to proactive disclosure under Section 5 and information protected under statutory exemptions relating to personal privacy, confidential contractual arrangements, commercially sensitive data, and thir...

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