<p>LAHORE: A judicial magistrate at the Cantonment Courts granted police 14-day judicial remand of four suspects, including one <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013143">related to a senior political figure</a>, in a case of <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2012477">alleged kidnapping and rape</a> of two foreign women.</p> <p>One of those two women is a national of the Netherlands and the other of Venezuela, and a case of their alleged abduction and sexual assault was <a href="https://www.da

<p>In May earlier this year, Islamabad and Beijing commemorated the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, with the bilateral discourse predictably gravitating toward familiar flourishes. Bonds “higher than the Himalayas and stronger than steel” once again resurfaced in official handouts and state-level speeches. Yet, beneath the ceremonial surface of this milestone, a more consequential structural transformation is being engineered.</p> <p>Over the course of this 75-year arc, the relati

<p><strong>• Officials having to rely on ‘less credible sources’ in the absence of river flow information from India<br>• Action to clear Ravi riverbed of ‘temporary encroachments’ on the cards</strong></p> <p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has asked the irrigation department to prepare for flooding under the ‘high-alert category’, amid prevailing uncertainty about river flows due to India’s unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.</p> <p>A source privy to a meeting cha

<p>Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2014774">crashed</a> into the Arabian Sea off Karachi last week are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause.</p> <p><a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2014365">Debris</a> from the K2 Airways freighter was <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013836">recovered</a> shortly after the July 7 crash, but the water in the area is about 3,000 metr

<p><strong>• Senate panel asks PTA to explore alternative mechanism for SIM registration<br>• Regulator says ‘visible 5G coverage’ expected by year-end<br>• Ogra clarifies consumers liable for metered gas leakage</strong></p> <p>ISLAMABAD: Amid concerns about the restrictions surrounding the transfer of e-SIM cards from one phone to another, the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat was informed on Thursday that consumers would soon be able to transfer their e-SIM cards at l

<p>GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution asking the federal government to grant provisional provincial status, as well as constitutional and political rights, for the people of the mountainous region.</p> <p>The resolution, supported by both sides of the aisle, was presented by lawmaker Jalal Ali Shah during the session on Thursday.</p> <p>It recalled the historical background of GB’s liberation, subsequent administrative reforms, and constitutional

<p>MUZAFFARABAD: With preparations for the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2005383">upcoming elections</a> in Azad Jammu and Kashmir gathering pace, political strategies seem to be moving towards more engagement with the region’s main malcontents — the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC).</p> <p>A recent <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2015516">visit</a> by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari saw the PPP chief and his team engaging with political bigwigs from the region, including AJK PM Faisal Mum

<p>Security forces have killed 24 terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district and its adjoining areas in the last 24 hours, the military’s media affairs wing said in a statement on Friday afternoon.</p> <p>The statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that recently, there had been a “surge” in terrorist activities against police and suicide bombings in Bannu.</p> <p>In these incidents, the statement said, “Indian proxy <em>Fitna-al-Khawarij</em> targeted law enforc

<p>Multiple X users have been sharing a video on the social media platform since July 14, claiming that it shows the Iranian Navy destroying a ship in the Strait of Hormuz amid <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2015869/us-strikes-irans-coastal-defences-in-fresh-salvo-tehran-again-targets-american-assets-in-gulf-states">renewed hostilities</a> in the Middle East.</p> <p>However, the video is old and shows the US Navy destroying an Iranian Soleimani-class corvette vessel in the Persian Gulf.</p>

<p>The recovery plan for war-battered Gaza, under US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP), has been significantly scaled back and, instead of reconstructing the entire territory, now envisions a small pilot project in the south of the besieged territory, the British publication <em>The Guardian</em> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/trumps-board-of-peace-drops-full-gaza-recovery-plan-for-tiny-pilot-s