Pakistan for Monday, January 5, 2026
- PM orders fast-track loans for SMEs on easy terms
- CM Bugti hails 14pc decline in out-of-school children in Balochistan
- SC orders tribunal to decide fine on 72 sugar mills within 90 days
- Pakistan marks Right to Self-Determination Day
- 2,000 kg explosives seized, terror plot foiled in Karachi: CTD
- Venezuela’s Maduro, wife plead not guilty in US court appearance
- Pakistan expresses ‘profound concern’, urges restraint and dialogue on Venezuela at UNSC
- 5 terrorists killed in two CTD operations
- Pakistan, China press Taliban for verifiable action on terror
- Trump sketches expansionist US agenda
- Maduro pleads not guilty in NY court
- NA opp leader may be notified next week
- Iran promises reforms as it seeks to quell street protests
- Pakistan's global clout growing: Chinese envoy
- PM orders measures to support SMEs
- Revealed: Forged documents used in 200 medical admissions
- ATC dismisses Aleema Khan's acquittal petition
- SC accepts plea regarding sessions judges' powers
- Afridi urges lawyers to lead resistance
- SC reviews Rs44 billion sugar fine
- Court issues arrest warrants for Gandapur
- TTAP awaits govt's next move
- Pakistan voices concern over Venezuela tensions
- UK starts ban on junk food ads on daytime TV and online
- Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss dies
- 'Tuna King' pays record $3.2m for bluefin
- Two killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine
- North Korea links missile launch to 'recent geopolitical crisis'
- Social media posts case: Cross-examination of key witness completed by Imaan, Hadi
- Palestinian embassy in UK officially inaugurated
- Water tanker kills 7-year-old boy in Karachi’s Manghopir: police
- Salaried taxpayers pay Rs266b
- Mobile manufacturers to face penalties over lack of localisation
- Minister tightens oversight of gas supply
- Sahiwal garlic could help save Rs14.5b
- Oil up more than 1% in choppy trade
- Rate cut hopes propel PSX to highs
- US strikes in Venezuela spur safe-haven buying
- First fishing technology museum inaugurated
- Govt to assess impact of tariff revision
- Speed breeding delivers 400 chickpea lines
- Rawalpindi extends section 144
- Kidnapping-for-ransom case takes new turn
- 'Waiting for Godot' presented in Urdu
- ATC takes strict notice of challan delays
- Winter dehydration threatens kidney health
- Ceremonies markZAB's birthday
- Cops summoned over 'fake encounter' killing
- Abbottabad ramps up crackdown on illegal mining
- Five held for gang-rape, torture of teen girl
- Punjab chokes as smog persists
- 'Punjab's doors open for other provinces'
- Servant held for child rape
- Female varsity student 'attempts suicide'
- Rural relief bazaars planned
- Robber held after encounter
- UN chief Guterres raises concerns about instability in Venezuela, legality of US operation
- ICC mulls relocating Bangladesh T20 WC matches from India after BCB request
- PM Shehbaz pays tribute to Begum Khaleda Zia, offers condolences at Bangladesh High Commission
- ATC adjourns Mughalpura police vehicles arson trial
- Farmers decry red tape at Board of Revenue
- Finance committee approves funds for church, cathedral
- Balochistan High Court halts transfer of judicial powers to Commissioners, suspends home department notification
- Sindh CTD says major terrorist plot in Karachi foiled; 2,000kg of explosive material seized
- LOSING THE PESHAWAR THAT I ONCE KNEW
- Lahore court grants pre-arrest bail to qawwal booked for song linked to Imran Khan
- University of Lahore student injured after jumping from varsity’s second floor: police
- 1 killed, 8 injured in IED attack on vehicle carrying cement workers in Lakki Marwat
- Greenland says ‘no more fantasies about annexation’ after Trump remarks
- Dense fog and freezing temperatures grip Peshawar, disrupt flight operations
- Court grants Bail to Armaghan in PECA case linked to alleged illegal call centre
- Commonwealth, Asian Games and T20 World Cup to shape Pakistan’s 2026 sports calendar
- Supreme Court upholds Session Judge’s authority to transfer case, overturns LHC ruling
- Pakistan, China call for more ‘visible, verifiable’ actions to eliminate terrorist groups based in Afghanistan
- 1 killed, 16 injured in Panjgur IED attack
- Martial rule, agrarian militarisation and political centrality of Punjab
- Iran judiciary chief says ‘no leniency’ towards ‘rioters’
- Mustafa Amir murder case: Main suspect gets bail in illegal call centre case
- Opposition leader’s appointment: PTI chief whip submits documents pertaining to Omar Ayub’s cases to NA speaker
- India’s top court denies bail to Muslim student leader Umar Khalid
- Bangladesh orders indefinite ban on IPL telecast after Mustafizur Rahman row
- Over 682,000 Afghan nationals repatriated from Pakistan
- Pakistan records one of hottest Decembers in 65 years: PMD
- Govt to auction spectrum next month to boost internet speed: IT minister
- KP CM Sohail Afridi calls on lawyers to stand up for independence of judiciary
- PKCERT, Kaspersky sign MoU to strengthen cybersecurity in Pakistan
- Jamia Ashrafia chief Maulana Fazlur Rahim Ashrafi passes away
- Ramazan moon likely on Feb 18, Eidul Fitr on March 21
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s 98th birth anniversary being observed today
- Dense fog shuts key motorways across Punjab, KP and Sindh
- ‘We can revise tariffs very quickly’: Trump warns of higher tariffs on India over Russian oil purchases
- Trump says second Venezuela strike possible if govt does not cooperate, insists US ‘in charge’
- Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, BD vow enhanced ties
- Federal constitutional court major milestone in judicial journey of country
- Qawwal booked in Lahore over song linked to Imran Khan
- PIA union makes vain effort to stall airline sale