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. UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Wednesday urged all sides to exercise restraint and give diplomacy “a little more chance” amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, warning that recent events have highlighted the risk of further escalation. Addressing a UN Security Council briefing on non-proliferation, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar … Read more

. BARCELONA: Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday blessed a giant new tower at Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia Basilica after celebrating mass inside what is now the world’s tallest church. A fireworks and light show illuminated the exterior of the temple at the end of the ceremony, bathing the unfinished basilica in shifting colours that highlighted … Read more

. The terrorism in Balochistan shows how an armed separatist movement comes apart over time. For more than twenty years, Pakistan’s largest province has lived with low-intensity conflict: scattered violence, a steady separatist message, and long stretches of uneasy quiet. The recent operational record, the shift in tactics, and the regional politics around it point … Read more

Rescue workers extinguish fire on a van near Khajut on the Islamabad-Murree Expressway. PHOTO: EXPRESS RAWALPINDI: At least 10 people were killed and 13 others injured on Wednesday when a passenger van carrying members of the same family plunged into a stormwater drain and caught fire on the Rawalpindi–Murree Expressway near Khajut, Motorway Police spokesperson … Read more

Approves Rs3.2 trillion development package with Rs920 billion provincial contributions ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) on Wednesday approved Rs3.2 trillion national development spending bill – 25% less than originally proposed outlays – after three provinces agreed to freeze their uplift expenses and give Rs920 billion as grant to the cash-starved Federation. The provincial development … Read more

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on early Wednesday morning carried out “precise and calibrated” strikes against terrorist hideouts along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing 26 members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), amid growing tensions between Islamabad and Kabul over the presence of anti-Pakistan groups on the Afghan soil. The strikes came in the aftermath of a series of … Read more

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump vowed fresh and “hard” military strikes against Iran on Wednesday, accusing Tehran’s negotiators of “playing us for suckers,” as tensions between the two countries surged following renewed hostilities and the collapse of fragile ceasefire efforts. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump confirmed … Read more

Mi-17 helicopter develops technical fault All officers and troops onboard martyred Inquiry board to investigate People and police gather near the crash site of a Pakistan Army Aviation Mi-17 helicopter near Muzaffarabad as smoke billows from the wreckage. PHOTO: REUTERS RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan Army Aviation Mi-17 helicopter crashed near Muzaffarabad on Wednesday during take-off due … Read more

. LAHORE: More than 2,500 rural women have completed training during the past two years under the ‘She Threads’ skills development programme aimed at equipping them with marketable expertise in the textile sector. According to a statement, 773 trained women have secured employment, another 1,150 are undergoing training, with plans to train an additional 1,350 … Read more

Oh, "When are you getting married?" There it is. The question that refuses to die, much like my patience every time you ask it. Honestly, that patience should be studied by scientists. It could be the eighth wonder of the world at this point. Maybe it's one of the things holding Pakistani society together. In … Read more