October 2025

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that the defense cooperation agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is anchored in brotherhood and mutual trust, emphasizing that the two nations, by working together, can secure a stronger position in the global community. He was speaking at a luncheon organized here at the Prime Minister’s House

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court acquitted a 74-year-old Christian in a blasphemy case after 23 years of imprisonment, most of which he spent in a death cell due to his mental disorders. “The petitioner is above seventy-four years of age and has spent about twenty-three years in prison, most of which was in the death cell.

RAWALPINDI: Amid a flurry of provocative statements from India following the May 9 setback, Pakistan’s top military commanders pledged Wednesday to counter any future aggression by India “with a swift and decisive response, shattering any notion of India’s relative security arising from geography.” “Any imaginary ‘new normal’ will be met with a new normal of

ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered that local body elections in Punjab be held in the last week of December 2025, as per the provisions of the Local Government Act, 2022. A four-member bench of the Election Commission – headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and

PESHAWAR: A perfect storm of political, administrative and security crises in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa finally cost Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur his job as the jailed founder of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Wednesday decided to replace him with a young tribal lawmaker, Muhammad Sohail Afridi. Political analysts say Gandapur’s ouster was long overdue as