<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday met with the secretary general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Nurlan Yermekbayev, and reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to advancing its objectives, the Foreign Office (FO) said.</p> <p>In a post on X, the FO said that Dar received Yermekbayev, with the two holding a “productive exchange” on the SCO priorities and ways to further strengthen cooperation among member states in key areas, including economy, t

<p>Pakistan’s recent diplomatic efforts for achieving sustainable peace in the Middle East deserve to be assessed, not by whether they produced an immediate US-Iran agreement, but by what they strategically accomplished.</p> <p>First, it helped create diplomatic space at a critical moment, reducing the risk of a disastrous regional escalation. Second, it contributed to bringing Washington and Tehran into direct high-level engagement after nearly five decades of estrangement, demonstrating that

<p>State Minister for Interior Tallal Chaudhry on Wednesday said authorities were stepping up security around the Saindak copper and gold mine in Balochistan after supply routes were disrupted in the region by terrorists, and the mine’s operator denied a report that the project could be forced to shut down.</p> <p>The development comes as kinetic operations in the province are being carried out under <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2015629/3-more-terrorists-killed-as-operation-shaban-contin

<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will travel to Shanghai from July 16-17 to attend the signing ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO), the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement on Wednesday.</p> <p>According to the FO, Dar will travel with a delegation at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The deputy prime minister will attend the signing ceremony and sign the agreement on behalf of Pakistan as a founding member.</

<p>Plane bringing Houthi delegation home from Tehran had to divert after Yemeni government bombed Sana’a airport</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/14/us-iran-war-live-updates-strikes-strait-of-hormuz-middle-east-crisis-trump-latest-news">Middle East crisis live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Iranian flights to and from Yemen are an unacceptable violation of the country’s sovereignty, the vice-president in Yemen’s Saudi-backed, UN-recognised gove

<p>Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality rates</p><p>There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – but there are hopes that could change within months as the first patients are enrolled in a treatment trial.</p><p>It is a record pace to set up and start this kind of research, scientist

<img src='https://i.cbc.ca/ais/0581f5d7-5083-4cbc-98b1-7bb669db6d6d,1784119450704/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C201%2C8640%2C4860%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29' alt='A building is shown with the Russian National Olympic Committee logo on it. A man is shown walking past.' width='620' height='349' title='A man walks from the Russian National Olympic Committee building in Moscow, on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)'/><p>Nine European nations have asked the European Union

<p>The R&amp;B singer was found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking and producing child abuse images, with his lawyer lobbying the US president for more than a year</p><p>R Kelly has formally appealed to the US president, Donald Trump, for a reduction of his 31-year prison sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking and child abuse images, in a filing to the Department of Justice.</p><p>The 59-year-old R&amp;B singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was found guilty in 2021 of lead

<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar left for a two-day visit to China’s Shanghai on Thursday to sign an agreement for Pakistan to join the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) as a founding member, the Foreign Office (FO) said.</p> <figure class='media w-full w-full media-- media--embed media--uneven media--tweet' data-original-src='https://x.com/ForeignOfficePk/status/2077608019005997190?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etwe

<p>The US, early on Thursday, launched a second wave of attacks on Iran’s coastal defences and missile sites within a span of 24 hours after reimposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, and Tehran responded by again targeting US military sites in neighboring Gulf countries.</p> <p>The latest escalation comes days after a fragile truce <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/2014404">collapsed</a>, raising the specter of a return to full-scale war, with Iran once again <a href="https://www.dawn