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KP CM Sohail Afridi. Photo: Screengrab ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Wednesday accused the federal government of sidelining the PTI and taking key national decisions behind closed doors without taking stakeholders into confidence. Addressing a press conference in the federal capital, Afridi said the federal government had abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting on […]

Meeting of the National Security Committee. Photo: file ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has recommended that the country’s National Security Committee (NSC) be institutionalized as a regular forum for strategic civil-military consultation. PILDAT released a report on the NSC’s performance and effectiveness during the second year of Prime Minister Shehbaz

A total of 468 flights are scheduled to transport pilgrims to Saudi Arabia over a 34-day period Pakistan finalized its Hajj 2026 flight schedule and ended issuing visas to pilgrims under the government scheme, with the pre-Hajj flight operation set to begin on April 18, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony said on

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday killed two much-wanted terrorists associated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a successful intelligence-based operation in Tank district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). According to a statement issued by the CTD, the team launched an operation after receiving information about the presence of terrorists in the area. During the operation, the terrorists, who

Says various parts of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to see rain with thunderstorm The National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday warned of nationwide thunderstorms and rainfall in the next 12 to 24 hours. According to an advisory issued by the authority, a system of westerly winds