Pakistan for Monday, January 12, 2026
- PPP’s displeasure forces govt to withdraw ordinance promulgated sans President Zardari’s approval
- Apple chooses Google’s Gemini AI to power Siri assistant
- Indonesia expresses desire to expand defence ties with Pakistan
- Indian rocket loses control after lift-off in fresh blow to country’s space agency
- Pakistan, Indonesia agree to expand defence cooperation
- Indonesia seeks deeper bilateral defence ties
- Iran, US signal talks amid brinkmanship
- Govt rebukes CM Afridi for evidence remark
- Seven martyred in IED attack on police patrol
- Speaker sets opp leader appointment process in motion
- JCP gives go-ahead to three permanent IHC judges
- Pakistan seeks out-of-court settlement to scrap IP pipeline
- Greenland rejects US takeover ‘under any circumstance’
- Once a model neighbourhood, now swamped by sewage
- Student tortured by madrassa teacher, dies
- City records season's coldest temperature
- Bus hits bike, kills school principal
- Mother dead, woman injured in gun attack
- City's pavements become shelters of last resort
- College teachers demand benefits, promotions
- Fire guts restaurant on Tipu Sultan Road
- Many private schools ignoring revised winter timings
- Laws alone can't empower women
- Centre, Sindh push for SME growth
- Hyd polio drive
- PMD forecasts cold, dry weather across country
- Nepal's youth scramble for poll jobs
- US says revoked 100,000 visas since Trump return
- Japan to mine deep-sea rare earths
- NATO, Greenland to boost Arctic security
- Guantanamo detainee subsidised by UK govt
- Sudan paramilitary strike on southeastern city kills 27
- More federal agents sent to Minneapolis
- Judicial Commission approves appointment of three IHC judges
- May 9 case: fashion designer declared PO
- Afridi says protest 'only option' left
- President leaves for Bahrain today
- PTA chairman appointment: IHC takes up ICA today
- Capital's LG polls delayed as law reshapes system
- PM advises withdrawal of SEZ ordinance issued sans president's nod
- FCC upholds Balochistan's right to levy mineral excise duty
- 'Heavy taxes driving businesses out'
- FCC moves to Shariat Court building
- Senate body expresses concern about senior officials' absence
- Tweets case adjourned without proceedings
- Iran condemns ‘interventionist statements’ by Trump, other US officials about its internal affairs
- PM mulls swift $60b export push
- Dollar fees paid to PTCL board questioned
- Gold hits record on global safe-haven rush
- NEPRA leaves end-consumer tariff unchanged
- Oil prices hold near five-week high
- PIA under private control from April
- Meeting on climate plans called off
- Job fair builds bridges
- Geopolitics sparks sell-off
- Dacoit killed 'by accomplices' in encounter
- Three killed, 12 injured in road crash
- Man allegedly fakes son's kidnapping
- Robbers posing as police loot house
- 6 martyred as police come under attack in KP’s Tank, Lakki Marwat
- JCP recommends making 4 ad hoc high court judges permanent
- KP Speaker Swati seeks in-camera briefing on military operations from Peshawar Corps Commander
- Tarar vows to block terrorist narrative, says nation united against militancy
- Pakistan denies social media claims of aiding possible US strike on Iran
- Talal Chaudhry accuses PTI, KP govt of ‘soft’ stance on militancy
- Govt castigates KP CM for saying state should give evidence of Kabul’s soil being used against Pakistan
- Info ministry rubbishes claims of Pakistan being used as a base for possible US strike on Iran
- Noor surges into world Top 30 after Karachi Open boosts Pakistani squash players’ rankings
- UK regulator investigates Musk’s X over concerns on Grok sexualised deepfakes
- KP CM Afridi decries treatment by Sindh government in address to SHCBA
- Former Test cricketer and chief selector Mohammad Ilyas passes away at 79
- May 9 riots: Punjab refutes PTI claims of submitting unrelated videos for forensic analysis
- NADRA updates Senate committee on data security
- President Zardari to embark on 4-day official visit to Bahrain tomorrow
- President Zardari to visit Bahrain from Jan 13–16
- KP govt launches home solar scheme for merged districts
- Government decides against increase in electricity tariff
- LHC orders Nasir Bagh restoration after tree cutting
- New Delhi and Washington actively engaging on trade, next call on Jan 13: US envoy to India
- PMD dismisses reports of ‘extreme cold wave’, temperatures to remain within normal winter range
- Motorways now open for traffic, say police following partial closure due to dense fog conditions
- Australia moves India, 3 other countries to ‘highest risk’ category for student visas: media
- PPRA to launch new e-Procurement system in June
- PMD dismisses claims of severe cold wave in Pakistan
- Heavy fog shuts multiple motorways across Punjab, Sindh and KP
- Trump vows to cut off Cuba’s oil after toppling Venezuelan ally Maduro
- NA speaker convenes meeting of parliamentary leaders today
- 12 more arrested in Saddar crackdown on illegal parking mafia
- LHC takes up petition against shooting and poisoning of stray dogs
- Terror attack on police check post foiled in Bannu
- Bannu CTD kills two terrorists in IBO
- Four killed in Manchester road accident
- Istehkam Pakistan Party demands 16 smaller provinces in place of 4
- Afridi, ex-ministers identified in May 9 Radio Pakistan attack clips
- Opposition leader’s appointment awaited as National Assembly session summoned
- Urgent reforms proposed to avert another IMF loan