<p>KARACHI: Despite being registered by Pakistan’s drug regulator, around 40 new life-saving medicines remain unavailable to patients because the federal government has yet to approve their prices, forcing thousands of people suffering from cancer, diabetes, haemophilia, Parkinson’s disease and other serious illnesses to rely on expensive smuggled or unregistered medicines, officials and market sources said on Sunday.</p> <p>The delayed price notifications, they said, have stalled the legal

<p>LAHORE: Multan police have booked veteran politician Javed Hashmi and his three sons-in-law in four cases registered over alleged electricity theft, it emerged on Saturday.</p> <p>The four first information reports (FIRs) were lodged at Multan’s Makhdoom Rasheed Police Station on July 17 under Section 462J (interference, improper use or tampering with electric meter by domestic consumer, etc) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).</p> <p>One case each was filed against Hashmi and his sons-in-law

<p>BANNU: An intelligence-based <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2016149">operation</a> (IBO) continued for the third consecutive day across parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Sunday, where one <a href="https://www.dawn.com/trends/terrorism-in-pakistan/2">terrorist</a> was killed and eight individuals were taken into custody, according to police.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.dawn.com/trends/counter-terrorism">operation</a> was led by Bannu District Police Officer (DPO) Captai

<figure class='media w-full sm:w-full media--center media--uneven media--stretch' data-original-src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/07/201028174ac0143.webp'> <div class='media__item '><picture><img src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/07/201028174ac0143.webp' alt='' /></picture></div> </figure> <p>Confronted by escalating tensions in the Middle East and repeated disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan has begun taking concrete steps to establi

<p>Every year, as the sugarcane crushing season approaches, Pakistan finds itself trapped in the same debate. Farmers demand higher cane prices to offset rising production costs. Sugar mills argue that increased procurement prices make sugar commercially unviable. Governments intervene to broker settlements, while consumers brace for higher retail prices.</p> <p>By the end of the season, all of them have negotiated a price. Yet almost no one asks the most important question: why does Pakistan co

<p>ISLAMABAD: The Lawyers Action Committee (LAC) on Saturday rejected the Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP) process for appointing judges to the country’s high courts, describing it as “horse trading” and a “horrific” appointment process.</p> <p>“While the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1953108">adverse fallout </a>of the 26th and 27th constitutional amendments continues to wreak havoc on Pakistan’s justice system, the current process of <a href="https://www.dawn.com/ne

<p>KARACHI: Police on Saturday said they have arrested a man over the alleged rape of a foreign woman in the city’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA).</p> <p>South Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Asad Raza told <em>Dawn</em> that the suspect has been arrested, a day after the Darakhshan police registered a first information report (FIR) on the woman’s complaint.</p> <p>DIG Raza said the woman was a medical assistant in cardiology in the United States. He added that she arrived in Pakistan

<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has extended its airspace ban on Indian civilian and military aircraft for another month, until Aug 23, according to a Notice to Airmen (Notam) issued by the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) on Saturday.</p> <p>The previous <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2001527">restriction</a> was due to expire on July 24.</p> <p>“Pakistan airspace not available for Indian-registered aircraft and aircraft operated or leased by Indian airlines/operators, including military flights,

<p>• Bansky Jaroslav dies after fall near Camp I on 7,821-metre peak<br>• Over 30 mountaineering permits granted as summer climbing season draws foreign expeditions to Pakistan’s tallest summits</p> <p>GILGIT: A Czech mountaineer has died after falling during an attempt to climb Masherbrum, one of the most challenging and rarely scaled peaks in Pakistan’s Kara­koram Range, as the summer climbing season reaches its peak with foreign expeditions targeting some of the world’s highest mou

<p>• CAD gap hits $649m in June<br /> • Foreign direct investment declines 34pc to $1.64bn </p> <p>KARACHI: Pakistan ended the outgoing fiscal year with a current account deficit (CAD) of $139 million, reversing a surplus of $1.838 billion recorded in 2024-25, the State Bank of Pakistan reported on Friday.</p> <p>The deficit remained negligible compared to the sharp monthly deficit recorded in June 2026, largely because of strong remittance inflows during the year.</p> <p>T