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Gabd border crossing with Iran reopened

GWADAR: Pakistan reopened its border crossing with Iran at Gabd-Rimdan on Saturday, restoring bilateral trade and allowing stranded trucks carrying LPG and essential food commodities to resume movement after a weeklong suspension that began on Oct 17. Border officials cleared commercial consignments holding a consignment note dated Oct 16 or earlier to cross at the Gabd-Rimdan point, known as G...

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Dar orders urgent action to rein in rising wheat prices

• Calls for increased market supply, warns against hoarding and speculation• PTI Kisan Wing welcomes wheat support price, seeks effective procurement mechanism ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over rising wheat prices, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday directed federal and provincial governments to take all necessary measures, including increasing market supply, to b...

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Pakistan Railways hits panic button after repeated accidents

• Emergency declared, holidays cancelled for officers until Dec 31• Minister orders removal of operational flaws by year-end• Says health analysis of 1,546 coaches, wagons completed• Deteriorating tracks, faulty rolling stock among causes of accidents LAHORE: In view of repeated derailments and accidents, including a recent incident near Multan that killed and injured several passengers, Pakist...

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2,000 displaced as Israel launches West Bank op

• Over 1,300 more face losing homes• Rights group says over 70 arrested• Official says houses, roads destroyed• Palestinian Authority asks world leaders for urgent action as Netanyahu hints at ‘big surprise’ JERUSALEM: The Israeli military forced thousands of Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank and demolished homes, factories, and roads as at least 15 towns wer...

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Reckless driving

THERE is a lack of official data documenting the crisis, but even by the most conservative estimates, over a dozen citizens die every day in traffic accidents. The past week has been particularly tragic. On Saturday, at least four children were killed and three other people injured when a van carrying them to a madressah plunged into a ravine in Azad Kashmir’s Neelum Valley. The driver had lost...

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Party of one

IT ill behoves a political party that claims to be the biggest and most popular in the country to be so mired in chaos all the time. Yet it sometimes appears as if this is exactly what its leader intended. At each turning point in national politics since the PTI’s founder was jailed, the party has demonstrated a lack of capacity to function rationally. Former prime minister Imran Khan, while he...

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Prudent warning

AS speculation grows regarding fresh US-Israeli aggression against Iran, major Muslim states of the wider Middle East, as well as European powers, have clearly expressed their lack of appetite for any such misadventure. Meeting in Istanbul on Friday under the ‘R4+E3’ umbrella, the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, the UK, Germany, and France discussed several global h...

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Pakistan export initiative

DOES any such initiative exist in our country, or is it a figment of my imagination? For sure, there is an initiative for remittances — but not for exports. One wonders about the presence of one and the strange absence of the other. Exports are stagnating, and remittances are rising. Are exports falling because of unwise policies or despite them? Are remittances rising because of good policy in...

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Pak-US reset?

SINCE early 2025, Pakistan’s relations with the US have taken an upturn after years of mutual disenchantment. Why did the US opt for this reset? And will this bonhomie last? Historically, Pakistan and the US have come close only when their interests converged. America has preferred a transactional relationship with Pakistan based on specific issues of its geopolitical agenda. The recent thaw in...

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The next Waseem

I HAVE eight columns left to write this year after this one. I said the last two months should be different. Cheerful maybe. Insightful, at least. Something new. Then Waseem Abbas happened. He was 15. His father died nine years ago. His mother remarried. A grandfather and an uncle took turns looking after him until they could not. Then they took him to an orphanage in Multan. His grandfather sa...

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Decoding defence deals

SINCE September 2025, Pakistan has signed multilayered and multi-domain defence agreem­e­nts with several Arab and Muslim states. It has sig­­ned a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) with Saudi Arabia, the Makkah Joint Def­­ence Agreement (MJDA) with Turkiye and Saudi Arabia, and a defence pact with Kuwait. Pak­istan has recently signed another defence agree­ment — the Badr agreement. Pa...

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Unbeaten Roma snatch draw at Napoli, Lazio move top of Serie A

AS Roma preserved their unbeaten status in Serie A as Leonardo Balerdi’s 89th-minute goal snatched a thrilling 3-3 draw at Napoli on Saturday, while Lazio saw off Parma to move to the top of the table. Gian Piero Gasperini’s third-placed Roma are now four points behind Lazio, who are three clear of reigning champions Inter Milan, who host Fiorentina on Sunday. Scott McTominay thought he had won...

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Antonelli storms to US Grand Prix pole on weekend he can take title

Runaway world championship leader Kimi Antonelli showed no nerves as he stormed to pole position with a perfectly measured fastest lap in qualifying on Saturday for the United States Grand Prix. The 20-year-old Italian will wrap up the drivers’ championship if he wins in Austin on Sunday, his Mercedes team-mate George Russell finishes outside the top eight, and Lewis Hamilton finishes outside t...

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Apologetic Alvarez fires Atletico to win against Deportivo

Julian Alvarez continued on his road to redemption by scoring as Atletico Madrid beat Deportivo La Coruna 1-0 on Saturday, closing the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona to two points, and apologising to the club’s supporters for trying to leave this summer. Diego Simeone’s side are second, with champions Barca hosting Real Madrid, third, in the Clasico at Camp Nou on Sunday. Alvarez netted for t...

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Lens beat Paris FC in Ligue 1 matchday impacted by social unrest

Paris FC missed the opportunity to go top of Ligue 1 as they went down 2-1 at RC Lens on Saturday in a matchday heavily impacted by the protests taking place across France. Florian Thauvin and Thorgan Hazard scored in the final 30 minutes as last season’s French Cup winners came from behind to beat Paris FC. The result condemned Paris FC to remaining joint on 14 points with five other clubs at ...

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Beier late show sends Dortmund top of Bundesliga

Maximilian Beier scored in the 80th minute to send Borussia Dortmund to the top of the Bundesliga after a hard-fought 1-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday. In a game lacking clear chances, Jobe Bellingham came off the bench and had an immediate impact, threading a clever pass for fellow substitute Beier to score. The narrow victory was Dortmund’s first in the league since mid-Septe...

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