<p>The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) on Wednesday said the Pakistan Navy (PN) and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA), after 12 hours of search and rescue operations in the deep sea, had successfully located and identified the wreckage of K2 Airways’ cargo Boeing 737 aircraft, which was reported missing last night.</p> <p>The wreckage was recovered from 53 nautical miles south of Ormara, the PAA said.</p> <figure class='media w-full w-full media-- media--embed media--uneven m

<p>ALTHOUGH it will take time for US-Iran negotiations to produce a durable peace deal, regional states have begun positioning themselves to benefit from the new economic opportunities that are likely to emerge. Anticipating greater regional integration, Türkiye, for example, has announced incentives to attract manufacturing investment.</p> <p>Pakistan, too, is well placed to benefit. It has earned global goodwill for helping reduce regional tensions and supporting diplomatic efforts for peace.

<p><strong>• Suparco says obstructed floodplain could trigger overbank flooding, debris flows<br>• Satellite imagery shows number of ‘unfrozen lakes’ increased from 24 to 40 in just two weeks</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: With the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2011619">monsoon season</a> now under way, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) has raised concern over the uncontrolled spread of settlements along a natural glacial lake-fed stream near Gilgit c

<p>ISLAMABAD: Russia has lifted restrictions on the import of potatoes from Punjab, allowing 101 exporters to resume shipments from July 7 after reviewing Pakistan’s phytosanitary control system, Pakistan’s trade officer in Moscow said on Tuesday.</p> <p>The decision to lift the ban was formally communicated to Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Security and Research. However, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance has barred two Pakistani exporters fr

<p>WASHINGTON: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi is expected to meet senior US officials in Washington early next week, as Pakistan continues efforts to <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013076">facilitate US-Iran talks</a>, diplomatic sources told <em>Dawn.</em></p> <p>Naqvi is currently in New York to represent Pakistan at the Fifth United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit 2026 (UNCOPS), being held at the UN headquarters on July 7 and 8. The summit has brought together interior ministers, police

<p>PAKISTAN’S economic debate is trapped in a distracting quarrel — whether banks lend too much to government and too little to enterprise. Allocation matters, but it is not the binding constraint. On the State Bank’s consolidated estimates, with the share of development spending shrinking, a rupee of government spending now multiplies about 0.71 in output on average while a rupee of private investment returns 1.2 to 1.3. The private rupee works nearly twice as hard yet, strip out producti

The missing aircraft, a Boeing 737 operated by Karachi-based K2 Airways, was flying from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Karachi when it reported a navigation system malfunction at around 9.18 pm local time, according to Pakistan's airport authority. Officials said radar data showed the aircraft suddenly descending and making a sharp change in direction at around 9.21 pm. Moments later, both radar and radio contact were lost about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi.

<p>CHAKWAL: A new twist has emerged in the killing of nine-year-old Hania Ahmed as her father claimed that the robbers did not resort to shooting; rather, the incident occurred due to direct firing by a cop of the Crime Control Department (CCD).</p> <p><a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2008638">Hania</a>, an Australian citizen visiting Pakistan, was killed on the spot on the night of June 10 in Chakwal city during a <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2007117">robbery incident</a> due to firing

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Pakistan Navy and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to intensify search and rescue operations in the Arabian Sea after a private cargo plane en route from Sharjah to Karachi went missing late on Tuesday night.</p> <p>A K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013645/cargo-plane-disappears-from-radar-over-arabian-sea-off-karachi">disappeared</a> from radar over the Arabian Sea, about 300 k

<p>ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday again warned the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the federal authorities against delaying local government (LG) elections, directing them to submit all pending delimitation notifications ahead of the next hearing on July 28.</p> <p>The tenure of LGs in KP <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1981467#:~:text=The%20tenure%20of%20half%20of%20the%20local%20councils%20will%20expire%20on%20March%2015%2C%20whereas%20that%20of%20the%20re