PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday reiterated his warning to the PML-N that a countdown for it has begun, as he declared that his partys movement for peoples rights will extend to the entire country. Bilawal made the remarks in a series...

<figure class='media w-full sm:w-full media--center media--uneven media--stretch' data-original-src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/08/02021211b5969a4.webp'> <div class='media__item '><picture><img src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/08/02021211b5969a4.webp' alt=' Field teams actively track children under five years of age every three months to closely observe health trajectories and vital events. Expectant mothers within the target areas are systematically registered and foll

The PML-N has bagged 14 seats while the PPP has managed to secure just four of the total 18 seats that were up for grabs in the second phase of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) election on Sunday, according to unofficial results released by the Election...

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated the PML-N’s leadership and successful candidates on Monday after unofficial results of the second phase of elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir showed it had won 14 of 18 seats up for grabs the previous day.</p> <p>PML-N’s main rival in the contest and also ally in the Centre, the PPP, managed to secure just four seats, according to unofficial results.</p> <p>The PPP has accused the PML-N of electoral malpractices, rigging and violence during Sun

<p>At least 14 people, including police officials, were martyred and 22 others injured in a suicide attack on Swat’s Kabal police station on Sunday, police said.</p> <p>Swat police spokesperson Nasir Iqbal Karimi, while speaking to <em>Dawn</em>, confirmed the death toll.</p> <p>Malakand Division Deputy Inspector General of Police Fida Hussain told <em>AFP</em> that police officers were among those martyred.</p> <p>He added that 22 people had been wounded and another body, suspected to be that

<p>Donald Trump has made some of the most aggressive public threats about military action of any modern US president. He has walked back many of them too.</p> <p>The 80-year-old Republican’s comments about the US war against Iran have shifted, sometimes dramatically and quickly, since the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/live/iran-israel-war#2020160">conflict</a> erupted on February 28.</p> <p>He has repeatedly declared victory, claiming Iran’s military capabilities were utterly defeated, only

<p>As rescuers <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2020134">recovered</a> the body of climbing legend Nirmal Purja on Sunday, grief rippled hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal at the school where he first displayed the grit that would make him world-famous.</p> <p>At the Small Heaven School in Chitwan district, friends, teachers and students gathered around a framed photograph of the 43-year-old British-Nepali climber, adorned with flowers.</p> <p>Lighting candles, they shared with <em>AFP</em>

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 constituencies reserved for Kashmiri refugees settled...

<p>Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja died along with other team members in a powerful avalanche on Broad Peak, his climbing company confirmed on Saturday.</p> <p>The avalanche struck on Thursday, cutting off contact with the international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja.</p> <p>“It is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak,” Purja’s company Elite Expeditions sai

<figure class='media w-1/2 media--right media--uneven media--stretch' data-original-src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/08/010333444788f43.webp'> <div class='media__item '><picture><img src='https://i.dawn.com/large/2026/08/010333444788f43.webp' alt='' /></picture></div> </figure> <p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not fall, but he clearly wears a shell-shocked expression these days, as widespread anti-Modi <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2018665">prot