Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office of Pakistan has refuted claims of a Pak-Iran border closure, labeling such reports as misleading and baseless. The spokesperson for the Foreign Office clarified that all border crossings between Pakistan and Iran remain fully operational, with regular movement of people and goods continuing as usual. The Foreign Office added that there […]

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Chris Evans has opened up about an old remark made by Materialists co-star Dakota Johnson, admitting that she once said she didn’t like his face. The two now star together in the new romantic comedy Materialists, but their working relationship got off to a slightly awkward start — at least in Evans’ mind. In a […]

The coalition government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Wednesday unveiled a Rs310.2 billion deficit-free budget for the fiscal year 2025-26, which was approved by the Legislative Assembly amid a boycott by the opposition. Earlier today, the budget session was delayed by over two hours after five opposition members — four from the PTI and one from the Jammu Kashmir People’s Party (JKPP) — staged a sit-in at the entrance of the assembly hall, protesting what they described as the government’s attempt to “bulldoze the budget”. Four to five cabinet members approached the opposition to convince them to end their protest and voice their concerns inside the hall, but they were told that verbal assurances aside, the government’s “ill-will” was evident from the agenda of the budget session. The agenda stated that after the presentation of the revised budget for 2024-25 and the estimated budget for 2025-26, the finance minister would move a motion for suspension of Rules 127, 128, 129, and 131 of the Rules of Proc...

President Donald Trump left the question of whether the United States will join Israeli strikes on Iran up in the air on Wednesday, as he said that Tehran had reached out to seek negotiations. “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” Trump told reporters as he supervised the installation of a new flagpole on the White House South Lawn. Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised message that the country “will stand firm against an imposed war, just as it will stand firm against an imposed peace” as the archfoes entered their sixth day of war. Israel launched wide-scale air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences on Friday, killing top commanders, scientists, and civilians. It claimed the strikes are part of a broader operation codenamed ‘Rising Lion’ to deter Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, which the latter has consistently denied, saying its uranium enrichment programme is for civilian purposes. Latest deve...

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Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has shared his views on ‘The Running Man’ remark, starring Glen Powell. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu – Click Here The actor famously starred as Ben Richards in the dystopian classic in 1987. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, ‘The Running Man’ takes place in a dystopian future America and centres […]

Pakistan on Wednesday signed $1 billion financing for a five-year multi-tranche facility with the Asian Development Bank (ADB). “The Ministry of Finance has signed a syndicated term finance facility of $1,000 million partially guaranteed by a Policy-Based Guarantee of the ADB Programme ‘Improved Resource Mobilisation & Utilisation Reform’,” according to a press release. The press release said that the Dubai Islamic Bank acted as the Sole Islamic Global Coordinator while Standard Chartered Bank was the Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunners. Other financiers include Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank as the Mandated Lead Arranger and Sharjah Islamic Bank, Ajman Bank and HBL as Arrangers, it added. “The facility is a landmark transaction for the Government of Pakistan that demonstrates strong support from leading financiers in the region. This is a five-year multi-tranche facility including both Islamic and conventional tranches,” it said. The finance ministry said that the Islamic facility was structured to be fully compl...

Ministry projects revenue to grow 7-9%, but parliament questions WB model

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Start-up pressures, policy uncertainty and investor concerns fuel exit; core operations to remain through tech arm

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Hits $264m in May; 11MFY25 outflows rise 16% to $2.1b

Stakeholders lament disconnect between losses and government response

Financial institutions provide 54.3% of agri-credit target in FY25

Survey shows financial inclusion rises to 35%, but 85% still rely on informal credit

C/A deficit for May also contributes to across-the-board sell-off

Delegation visits SAU in bid to improve rural livelihoods via tech exchange

Two men were shot dead while a third was injured in what police described as an ‘honour’ killing in Karachi’s Ittehad Town on Wednesday, while in a separate incident in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a young man was also killed for the same reason, according to a first information report (FIR). In Karachi, Deputy Inspector General South, Syed Asad Raza, told Dawn.com that the incident occurred around 4am at a house near Khyber Chowk in the Ittehad Town neighbourhood. Two brothers and a nephew of a woman’s former husband allegedly scaled the boundary wall of her home. “The woman’s current husband and the intruders exchanged gunfire,” he said, adding that the husband was fatally shot. “The nephew was also killed in the shootout, while the current husband’s brother was injured,” DIG Raza added. “The two other suspects fled the scene.” During the initial probe, the police discovered that the deceased man had married a woman from the Tank district in KP. The couple was living in a rented house at Khyber Chowk in Ittehad Town...

A brain-dead pregnant woman who was kept alive in the southern US state of Georgia due to local abortion restrictions has given birth, officials said, with the mother then removed from life support. Adriana Smith had captivated attention across a country where access to abortion has changed radically since the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to terminate a pregnancy in June 2022. “On Friday, June 13, 2025, her infant son, named Chance, was born prematurely at approximately 4:41 am via emergency Cesarean section,” three Democratic congresswomen said in a statement. “Chance weighs about 1 pound, 13 ounces and is currently in the NICU,” the statement said, adding that Smith was removed from life support on Tuesday. Smith, a registered nurse, was suffering serious headaches in February when she was nine weeks pregnant. An initial hospital visit ended with only a prescription for medication. The next morning, when the then 30-year-old was taken to the hospital where she worked, doctors found multiple bl...