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ISLAMABAD - Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch yesterday led a delegation at the 10th Pakistan–EU Political Dialogue held in Brussels.

Intermittent rainfall has continued to lash Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and surrounding areas since Thursday night, with more showers expected throughout Friday, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).

LAHORE - National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore has initiated the disbursement of Rs3.

US President Donald Trump threatened to sue The Wall Street Journal on Thursday over a story about an alleged off-colour letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, amid lingering political fallout over his administration’s handling of the late financier’s sex trafficking case. The Journal story says the letter featuring a sketch of a naked woman and Trump’s signature was part of a collection of notes for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The newspaper says it reviewed the letter but did not print an image. Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker “was told directly by (White House press secretary) Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social network. “Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway,” he said. “President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. (Rupert) Murdoch, shortly. The press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist.” The Republic...

The White House on Friday dismissed reports circulating in Pakistani media that claimed U.

LAHORE - In a major breakthrough in the ongoing standoff between the government and op-position in the Punjab Assembly, both sides reached an agreement over the re-instatement of suspended lawmakers in the third round of negotiations on Thursday.

Govt imposes Section 144 across province Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Rajanpur regions most affected by rains, floods Army, civic administrations and depts initiate rescue, relief operations CM Maryam directs to intensify rescue operations round the clock NDMA, PDMA forecast more rains.

Shehbaz calls for preparing plan to provide easy loans to farmers Asks NDMA, Ministers for Climate & Planning to prepare disaster management plans to control rains and floods situation.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan yesterday signed a Framework Agreement on the Joint Feasibility Study for the Naibabad–Kharlachi segment of the Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan (UAP) Railway Corridor.

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday clubbed identical petitions against the auctions of 20 cricket and football grounds in various sectors of capital.

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Yahya Afridi has said that the cause of justice is not passive, it demands courage, vision and cooperation across institutions and borders.

Islamabad - Contingent of the Pakistan Air Force comprising state-of-the-art JF-17 Thunder Block-III fighter aircraft and the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, has landed at the Royal Air Force Base Fairford, United Kingdom, to participate in the prestigious Royal International Air Tattoo – 2025.

ISLAMABAD - The 7th Round of the Pakistan-United Kingdom Dialogue on Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament has been held in London, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

BAGHDAD/ ISLAMABAD - A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in southern Iraq has left at least 69 people dead and 11 others missing, the city’s health authorities and two police sources told a wire service on Thursday.

ATTOCK - The skies unleashed their fury as torrential rains continuously pounded different areas of the Attock district for hours causing flood like situation and paralysing routine life.

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) landmark and historic commercial plots auction concluded successfully on its third day on July 17, 2025.

• Mujtaba terms meeting ‘productive’, insists there will be no use of abusive language, sloganeering in future • Claims opposition didn’t raise issue of reinstating suspended lawmakers • Bhachar rejects assertion, says no return to house until MPAs’ suspension withdrawn LAHORE: Negotiations between the trea­­sury and opposition benches in the Punjab Assembly made headway during the third round of talks on Thursday, with both sides reaching an agreement on parliamentary conduct and activation of key house committees. However, a deadlock persists over the reinstatement of 26 suspended opposition lawmakers and the withdrawal of fines imposed on them — an issue the opposition insists is non-negotiable for their return to the house. The 26 PTI lawmakers in question were suspended for 15 sittings following their protest during Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s speech on June 27. Finance Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehm­an told reporters after the meeting on Thursday, “This was the third sitting of the negotiation c...

KARACHI: The US has designated the group, which claimed an attack in India-held Kashmir’s Pahalgam area, as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) and specially designated global terrorist (SDGT) group. Without any evidence, New Delhi had blamed Islamabad for the April 22 attack, which saw 26 people killed in the Baisaran hill station, and used it as a pretext to launch military strikes against Pakistan. According to a recent BBC News report, the group had initially said it was behind the attack, but later disowned it. Thursday’s statement from the State Department seemed to echo India’s viewpoint, which has claimed that the little-known newly-formed group was actually a “front and proxy” of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). India also blames the LeT for orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks and several other attacks on military forces. The US earlier designated LeT as an FTO in December 2001. One of the first mentions of the group came in 2020, when then-Indian army chief M.M. Naravane accused Pakistan of cr...

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