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Six people, including three women, lost their lives in an exchange of fire over a family feud on Monday in the Khatko Pul area of Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to a Rescue 1122 spokesperson. Seven people were reported to have been shot in the exchange of fire between two families, six of whom died on the spot. The deceased have been identified as Fazl Amin, Hazrat Amin, Ahmed, along with three women. Another woman was reported to be critically injured and has been shifted to Lady Reading Hospital. “The incident took place when a dispute over family issues escalated and members of both families opened indiscriminate fire at each other,” said Rescue 1122 KP spokesperson Bilal Faizi. According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Peshawar Noor Jamal who oversees investigations, a first information report (FIR) has been registered, and three have been named as accused. Raids are currently underway to arrest them. “The sister of one of the accused had died three days ago,” as per the SSP. The accus...

The Supreme Court on Monday indicated it may soon announce its verdict on the petition filed by Zahir Jaffer, the convict in the high-profile Noor Mukadam murder case, challenging the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) decision upholding his death sentence.

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a public alert warning citizens about scammers posing as HEC officials and using fake websites to extract sensitive information.

Authorities in Karachi have intensified their crackdown on illegal cattle markets across the city ahead of Eidul-Adha, with a major operation carried out by Sachal Police in the Safoora Chowrangi area and its surroundings.

A family suffered from health problems after consuming food believed to be contaminated, resulting in the death of three siblings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district, police said on Monday. Nowshera police spokesperson Turk Ali Shah told Dawn.com, “The family had consumed Mithai [sweets] with tea at night, after which their condition deteriorated.” “Three siblings have died after consuming poisonous food. Their mother was in critical condition,” he added. He said that the family were shifted to the Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex, where the siblings — 8-year-old Maryam, 6-year-old Hareem and 4-year-old Muhammad Yaman — were pronounced dead. “The mother is undergoing treatment at the hospital,” Shah continued. The police lodged an inquiry report on the complaint of Bakht Sher, the children’s father, the spokesperson said, adding that an investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of the deaths. In April, three children lost their lives while five others were in critical condition after having “p...

After the recent India-Pakistan’s “most expansive combat in half a century”, a leading American newspaper said in a news analysis on Sunday that “Strategically, the battlefield tossup was a clear setback for India.

India’s meteoric rise over the past decade has imbued its leadership with a confidence that, at times, borders on hubris. An average GDP growth rate of 6.7 per cent from 2014 to 2024 has propelled India’s nominal GDP to a projected $4.2 trillion by 2025, outpacing many global economies, including China’s 6pc growth over the same period. Strategic partnerships like the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), a burgeoning tech sector, and a youthful population of 1.36 billion have fuelled ambitions of great-power status. Yet, this self-assurance has led to diplomatic bristling, notably India’s irritation with US mediation in its recent ceasefire with Pakistan, which The Economist reported as a perceived slight to New Delhi’s sovereignty. More sobering was a recent aerial skirmish, detailed by the Financial Times, where China’s J-10 ‘Dragon’ fighters outmatched India’s Western-supplied aircraft, exposing technological disparities. A realistic comparison of India and China reveals a stark truth: despite rapid pro...

The current tense regional environment likely underpins the government’s proposal, endorsed by its largest coalition partner, the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, to raise the defence budget by 18 per cent for the next fiscal year. The critical question for a resource-constrained country, however, remains: who will pay for it? Driven by patriotism and deep respect for a military establishment that successfully repelled the strategic ambitions of a hostile neighbour five times its size, most Pakistanis would readily pledge to defend the nation’s sovereignty and support the security apparatus in any way they can. However, is it fair, or economically prudent, to place a greater burden on those already living below poverty line, or to further tax businesses that are essential to job creation and unlocking the country’s vast human potential? Younus Dagha, former Sindh minister and federal secretary, and current Chairman of the Policy Research and Advisory Council at Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, advocated for ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Karachi on a day-long visit to pay tribute to the Pakistan Navy for its commendable role in Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos.

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, visited the residence of Squadron Leader Usman Yousaf Shaheed in Rawalpindi to offer condolences and prayers for the fallen officer, who embraced martyrdom while defending an operational Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base during a recent enemy attack.

PPP’s Senator Sherry Rehman said on Monday that India built a false narrative during the recent conflict with Pakistan, and now Islamabad will have stay active on the diplomatic front to expose the Indian propaganda. On the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan will high-level diplomatic delegation to important world capitals to expose Indian propaganda in the aftermath of the recent military escalation with India. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been entrusted to lead the delegation comprising Senator Sherry Rehman, Dr Musadik Malik, Engineer Khurram Dastgir, Hina Rabbani Khar, Faisal Subzwari, Tehmina Janjua, and Jalil Abbas Jilani. The delegation will visit London, Washington, Paris, and Brussels to highlight India’s disinformation campaign and its attempts to destabilise regional peace. Speaking to Geo News today, Sherry said apart from the military front, diplomacy during conflict is an important front, as India built a false narrative using “fake news”. She said Bilawal has eme...

Attock - Federal Minister for Railways Hanif Abbasi during his visit to Attock revealed a significant improvement in trains punctuality across Pakistan, reporting an increase from 18% to 84%.

Gujar khan - The federal government is fully committed to undertaking substantial reforms in Pakistan Railways with a view to modernizing the railway infrastructure and aligning it with international standards, said Minister of State for Railways Bilal Azhar Kiyani on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal met with Dr.

ISLAMABAD - The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court will Monay (today) resume hearing in the review petitions of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a matter related to Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) reserved seats in the National Assembly and the provincial.

A powerful windstorm swept across Peshawar and several parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa late Sunday night, claiming at least three lives and leaving 14 others injured, according to a report issued by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).

DPM Ishaq Dar arrives in Beijing today on three-day official visit n PM also decides to send Bilawal-led delegation to several states to expose Indian propaganda and jingoistic designs China, Pakistan, Afghanistan hold talks in Beijing tomorrow.

LAHORE: The Lahore General Hospital (LGH) is embroiled in a controversy as it has been found dispensing irregular and unnecessary medicines, mostly antibiotics, to the patients, putting the health and lives of many of them at stake. The new scam surfaced when the Punjab health department detected several ‘faulty entries’ of the dispensation of medicines to the patients in order to show to the chief minister that the hospital was following her order to provide free medicines/care to the poor patients. An official privy to the development said that the medicines were officially dispensed to the outpatient department (OPD) patients from the hospital’s pharmacy reportedly in violation of the standard healthcare protocols. He said the consultants at the hospital OPD used to update the prescribed slips on the official portal that was linked to the relevant departments, including the official pharmacy of the teaching institute, from where the free medicine was given to the poor/needy patients. Protocols violated to ...

QUETTA - At least four people were killed and several others injured in a car bomb blast near FC Fort in Qila Abdullah, Balochistan province, police said yesterday.

ISLAMABAD - The Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of Pakistan and India are scheduled to hold talks on hotline today as part of the ongoing efforts to ease tension between the two states.