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ISLAMABAD - Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, NI (M), HJ, Chief of Army Staff; General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, NI, NI (M), Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee; Admiral Naveed Ashraf, NI, NI (M), Chief of the Naval Staff; and Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, NI (M), HJ, Chief of the Air Staff, on behalf of the Armed Forces of.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Navy continues relief and rescue operations in flood-affected areas of Punjab and Sindh Province.

ISLAMABAD - A delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, led by Chargé d’Affaires Shi Yuanqiang, visited the National Emergencies Operation Centre (NEOC) at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) headquarters on Friday and attended a briefing on flood relief and response efforts.

ISLAMABAD - Guided by the direction of Secretary Defence, Lt-General (retired) Muhammad Ali, HI (M), and the forward-looking vision of DG ML&C, Major General Irfan Ahmad Malik, HI (M), the Military Lands & Cantonments Department (MLCG) has unveiled a landmark initiative, a Comprehensive Internal Audit Framework for Cantonment.

KARACHI: The residents of Saadi Town and surrounding gated communities in Scheme 33 of District East deserve all praise for their resilience and positive attitude during the recent flooding in their localities as most of the water receded on Friday. A rug hangs out to dry from a balcony of a home. Grey clouds still cover the sky but life carries on as usual in Saadi Town. Just a couple of days ago, the houses here looked like water-locked islands. “The water did not enter our houses. Since this is not that old a town, the houses are built quite above the roads so we were fine, despite being marooned,” Babar Mirza, resident of Saadi Town, Block 7, told Dawn. Even though the water has receded, it has left the roads in bad shape with an uneven surface, cracks and potholes. But the wild grass and weeds in vacant plots are lush green from the rain. They provide distraction from the moisture stains on brick walls. Communities in Scheme 33 say their expensive residential town ‘turns into a katchi abadi’ when it rain...

LAHORE - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday extended the pre-arrest interim bail of Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, sisters of PTI founder, until October 12 in a case related to violence against police during the October 5, 2024 protest.

RAWALPINDI - The security forces killed four Indian sponsored terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Mastung District of Balochistan.

ISLAMABAD: Representatives of key journalist bodies on Friday expressed serious concerns over the continued trial of a senior journalist in a local court, without meeting fair trial requirements. The concerns came from office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists during an emergency meeting at the National Press Club. According to a statement, the participants expressed their dismay over the indictment of senior journalist Shahbaz Rana by a local court, despite the fact that he had filed the report based on official records. They announced that the journalist community would hold a protest against what they called a biased trial. The case against Rana is based upon a complaint of an FBR official, who alleged that the journalist’s report was defamatory and scandalous. However, the meeting reviewed the report and noted that not only was the information available in the official record, the report had proven to be true based on factual evidence. Published...

• PDMA puts Punjab death toll at 97; 2.45m displaced from 4,500 villages along Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej • Evacuations continue as overflowing Indus submerges 30 villages in Dadu • 19 controlled breaches made to save Jalalpur and Alipur; efforts on to plug Shujabad breach • Flood-hit areas without electricity, cellular coverage; drones used to deliver food to the stranded LAHORE: Evacuation eff­orts continued across central and south Punjab as exceptionally high flood levels persist between the Panjnad confluence of Chenab-Ravi-Sutlej and Guddu Barrage in Sindh, creating a severe humanitarian crisis, inundating low-lying areas, displacing large populations, and destroying hundreds of acres of standing crops. The overflowing Indus has also inundated parts of Sindh, with areas in Dadu and Lar­kana witnessing widespread displacement in riverine areas. Residents of flood-hit areas are also facing widespread electricity and mobile service outages, leaving them cut off from authorities and relatives, while trapped by...

LAHORE/RAHIM YAR KHAN - Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Friday reached flood-affected area of Taj Muhammad Langah in Rahim Yar Khan to review flood relief operations.

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti on Friday said that the decisions of the provincial cabinet were guarantee of the public interest and long-term development of Balochistan.

OKARA - Okara District Police Officer (DPO) Rashid Hidayat on Friday held an open court in Azhar Residence area of Police Station B-Division, which was attended by a large number of citizens, traders, journalists and civil society members.

MULTAN - Senior Provincial Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has urged people in flood-hit areas to immediately move to safe locations to ensure protection of lives.

VEHARI - In a remarkable gesture of solidarity, Bilal Foundation (Bilal School) Vehari delivered a large consignment of relief goods at the flood relief camp set up in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office to support flood-affected families.

MULTAN - Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has said that safeguarding lives and property of flood affected people is top preference of the government.

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