Pakistan for Monday, August 18, 2025

• Trump administration revoked more than 6,000 student visas, State Dept says
• Man rescued after getting stuck inside playground tube slide
• PTA issues guidelines for digital safety
• Ozzy Osbourne documentary pulled hours before scheduled release
• KP govt launches mobile app for flood victims’ compensation
• KP govt releases Rs800m for flood-hit areas, Rs500m for worst-affected Buner as deaths hit 341
• Hajj 2026 application deadline extended as quota remains unfilled
• Private Hajj operators assure full refunds to affected pilgrims
• BISE Bahawalpur to announce class 9 results on August 20
• BISE D.G Khan to announce class 9 results on THIS date
• Microsoft renovates Windows 11 Dark Mode in preview build
• State Bank to launch upgraded payment and settlement system today
• Son of Norwegian princess charged with four rapes
• Trump says to meet Putin, Zelensky if ‘everything works out’
• Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan, group official says
• Country’s running well, no need for 27th Amendment: FM Dar
• Symposium on ‘Radiation Techniques in Health & Environment’ opens in Islamabad
• Gillani urges Pakistan-Ethiopia cooperation to tackle climate change impacts
• Malaysian FM condoles loss of lives in northern Pakistan
• Rain fury claims 25 lives in Swabi
• Dar rules out need for 27th Amendment
• Professor accused in foiled BLA terror plot
• May 9 riots defied global protest norms: ATC
• Trump pledges security for Ukraine
• NJPMC sets timelines for case disposal
• Trump targets mail-in ballots
• Democrats return after fleeing Texas
• SVI warns of India's ICBM test fallout
• Buner flood victims fear to return home
• Only 3,500 seats remain in Hajj quota
• Pakistan urges regional climate solidarity pact
• Senate unanimously passes six private bills
• K-P, Sindh report new polio infections
• Judicial SOPs stir debate
• PM vows relief after K-P flood havoc
• NA panel seeks plan to revive PTV
• No Chinese casualties in Pakistan floods
• Sana gets PML-N ticket for Senate
• Court issues bailalble warrants for Elahi
• Germany urges Pakistan to allow back over 200 expelled Afghans
• Myanmar junta sets Dec 28 poll date
• Thaw in ties between India, China
• Nepal eliminates rubella, says WHO
• US has revoked 6,000 student visas under Rubio: State Dept
• Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan
• Trump vows to target mail-in ballots ahead of 2026 midterm election
• Drug addicts cripple Natha Khan Bridge
• Rs15.6m looted from Korean seafood staff
• PAC grills Irrigation Dept over RBOD-II delay
• Cloth merchantshot dead over'personal enmity'
• CM chairs meeting to tackle expected monsoon rains
• Mayor declares rain emergency, cancels KMC staff leaves
• City sizzles in heatwave-like conditions
• Polio eradication drive to start Sept 1
• Second autopsy conducted on Khawar Hussain
• CTD gets two-day physical remand of 'RAW agent'
• From flood shelter to ray of hope: GGPS Chanri remains resilient
• Middle-class lifestyle driving global environmental crisis'
• CM Maryam vows to adopt Japanese technology to boost cleanliness, environment in Punjab
• UK's BRAVE Programme revives flood-hit Badin school into safe learning space
• Wildlife dept fights bear-baiting, dog-led boar hunts
• CM vows to emulate Japan's modern cities
• Monsoon death toll in Punjab 164, says NDMA
• Three robbers killed in encounter
• Govt employees threaten protest
• LHC frees 5 family members confined at farmhouse
• Rs17b WASA project kicks off in DG Khan
• Policeman booked for bribery
• Floods destroy schools in Hazara
• Capital to be purged of illegal migrants
• Panja Sahib revamp on the cards
• Indonesian I-Day celebrated
• One polio case confirmed each in KP and Sindh, taking nationwide 2025 tally to 21
• Sindh govt says arrangements in place as parts of Karachi receive light rain
• NDMA hands over relief supplies to Buner administration
• Indian foreign minister stresses on border peace in talks with China’s top diplomat
• US trade adviser Navarro says India’s Russian crude buying must stop
• T20 Asia Cup: Are Pakistan right in leaving out Babar, Rizwan?
• Attaullah Tarar says national-level efforts underway to tackle flood situation
• Polio cases in KP rise to 13 as new infection confirmed
• NJPMC sets strict timelines for speedy disposal of court cases across Pakistan
• PM Shehbaz pledges full support for KP flood victims, donates cabinet’s one-month salary
• CM Maryam orders adoption of Japanese technology for Punjab sewage, waste treatment
• Rawal Dam spillways open after water level reaches 1,751 feet
• KP floods death toll rises to 325, rescue teams on high alert
• Investigative team probes journalist Khawar Hussain’s death in Sanghar
• Pakistan, GGGI explore carbon markets and green growth partnerships
• Afghan leaders, women activists to hold dialogue in Islamabad next week: think tank
• Five killed, girl injured as tourist vehicle crashes in Neelum Valley
• Cloudburst in Swabi kills 15 as monsoon rains wreak havoc across KP
• Monsoon spell wreaks havoc across Pakistan, Swabi cloudburst kills 15
• Balochistan university professor arrested for aiding BLA
• Schools in Bagh closed amid high flood alert
• NDMA warns of glacier melt threat as Pakistan faces seventh monsoon spell
• Two new polio cases reported in KP, Sindh
• Security forces foil terror plot to target children on Independence Day: CM Bugti
• Addressing the reality of tariff cuts
• Court issues arrest warrants for Parvez Elahi in money laundering case
• Indus River in medium flood at multiple barrages after heavy rains
• KP minister inspects relief activities in Charsadda
• Kundi promises full support for flood-affected families
• Pakistan crushed Indian arrogance in four hours: Punjab PA Speaker
• KP CM visits flood-hit Buner, assures rehabilitation of victims
• All destroyed homes in floods to be rebuilt: Gandapur
• NDMA alerts of more rains, floods amid widespread rescue, relief operations
• Digitization of economy priority of govt, says PM
• Pakistan, UK aim closer collaboration
• Naqvi says Pakistan has visual proof of downing Indian jets
• PM directs NDMA to send relief aid to flood-affected Buner
• NHA chairman visits KP, oversees rehab of roads
• President Zardari launches monsoon tree plantation drive, urges national participation
• CM Maryam receives warm welcome in Tokyo during Japan visit
• Pakistan defended sovereignty with courage, wisdom, unity: Gilani
• Awam Express derails near Lodhran, 1 dead
• Fazl questions KP govt’s writ in tribal areas
• CM Maryam puts departments on high alert as more rains, floods expected
• Villages on the banks of Sutlej, Ravi, Indus brace for flooding
• ‘Skibidi’, ‘tradwife’, ‘delulu’: Social media words added to Cambridge dictionary
• IHC sets up 4 specialized benches to exclusively hear financial and commercial cases
• Shafay Hussain inaugurates IT lab
• 14 Punjab youths booked for harassing, torturing family in Lasani Express
• Monsoon rains claim 657 lives, injure 929 across country: NDMA
• University lecturer linked to banned group held in Quetta
• Drizzle brings relief to Karachi, heavy rains forecast
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa picks up the pieces after deadly deluge
• Air Canada grounded as striking union defies order to get back to work
• ANP-led multiparty moot declares past policies ‘a failure’
• Govt may allow new gas connections with fee hike
• Govt working to expand Raast, digitise economy: PM
• Case dismissed against transgender persons held for organising ‘objectionable’ party in Lahore