<p>The PPP and the PML-N continued lambasting each other on Saturday, extending their rhetoric from the ongoing elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to the other party’s previous tenures in power.</p> <p>The PPP and the PML-N — coalition partners in the Centre — have been engaged in a war of words since the PML-N emerged as the winner in the elections in AJK’s Mirpur division. The PPP has <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2018993#:~:text=on%20the%20street.%E2%80%9D-,On%20AJK%20poll

<p>Security forces have killed the mastermind behind the July 30 <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2019442">attack</a> on a police checkpost in Hangu, which claimed the lives of nine police officials, a senior security official told <em>Dawn</em> on Sunday.</p> <p>Security sources said the slain terrorist was identified as Amir Mauviya, and he was killed during an intelligence-based operation in Hangu’s Chapri Naryab.</p> <p>According to the sources, the slain terrorist held an important posi

<p>GILGIT: The bodies of celebrated Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and three other mountaineers accompanying him on a summit of the Broad Peak mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan were recovered on Sunday — three days after all 10 members of the team were <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2019683">reported missing</a> after an avalanche.</p> <p>On Saturday, his expedition organising company Elite Exped <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2020045/death-of-all-climbers-confirmed-in-broad-peak-avalanche">an

<p>PESHAWAR: Two police personnel sustained minor injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion targeting a police van near Pir Zakorhi Bridge near the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway toll plaza on Sunday afternoon, police said.</p> <p>According to the police, the driver of a police van and a constable sustained minor injuries, while the vehicle itself sustained damage.</p> <p>“Both the cops have been shifted to the hospital,” the city police spokesperson Alam Khan told <em>Dawn.</e

<p>United States President Donald Trump said late on Saturday he would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>Iran and “other Middle Eastern Countries” asked for a time to complete a deal that would lead to “the Immediate, Complete and Total” reopening of the Strait and “an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.</p> <figure class='m

<p><strong>• Multiple rounds of talks between PPP, PML-N leaders fail to defuse tensions<br>• Sanaullah questions Zardari’s election as president after PPP’s Form-47 jibe<br>• Saeed Ghani alleges PML-N govts came to power through rigging every time<br>• Sharif family meets at Jati Umra to take stock of ‘mounting’ political challenges</strong></p> <p>MUZAFFARABAD/LAHORE: Despite multiple rounds of talks between the PML-N and the PPP in Azad Jammu Kashmir, the tensions between the

<p>KARACHI: The influx of smuggled Iranian oil has drastically declined as tankers were hit inside Balo­chistan, causing heavy losses to those involved in this illegal business, according to sources in the oil sector.</p> <p>The oil companies have been demanding that oil smuggling be stopped, but it has continued for years. However, the arrival of Iranian petroleum products increased after the US-Israeli war on Tehran began, pushing crude oil prices above $100 per barrel.</p> <p>“Over the pas

<p>PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday said he had received a response from the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2005462">proscribed</a> Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) to his letter proposing the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, adding that the party would now consult key stakeholders to determine the way forward.</p> <p>The PPP has repeatedly called for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission amid protests in AJK.</p> <p>Over the past

<p>At least seven people were killed and 18 others injured in a suicide attack outside the gate of Kabal police station in Swat on Sunday, police said.</p> <p>According to the Swat District Police Officer (DPO) Umar Khan, the suicide bomber detonated explosives after police personnel attempted to stop and search him at the entrance of the police station.</p> <p>“According to initial information, seven people were killed, and 18 others were injured. Our police are on high alert and fully prepar

MUZAFFARABAD: Polling for the second phase of elections to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly will be held on Sunday in nine constituencies of Muzaffarabad division and all 12 const...