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Faheem Akram, 33, is accused of selling more than 5.1 million counterfeit US postage labels for about $2 each through LabelsBank.com, costing the US Postal Service an estimated Rs35 billion.
Kapil Mishra called the cockroach a symbol of “jihadism” and “traitors” at a Ramlila run by a BJP lawmaker, as the Cockroach Janta Party leads protests against the Election Commission. AAP has filed a complaint.
Pakistan has “only one expectation” of Kabul, Dar told the SCO Council of Heads of Government, as he pushed for an SCO development bank and set out Islamabad’s plans for its chairmanship and the 2027 summit.
At a joint stakeout with Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Shehbaz Sharif also offered Pakistan’s data-centre know-how and set a target of lifting trade from $13.9 million to $200 million in two years.
The 16-article agreement between Türkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia treats an attack on one as an attack on all, bars withdrawal for a decade and gives Pakistan the first turn as secretary-general.
India’s sweeping voter-roll revision asks citizens to trace themselves back to the 2002-03 lists. More than 133 million names have been cut, and critics say the poor, women and Muslims are paying the price.
An AK Party lawmaker told Reuters the request would follow ratification of the Makkah defence pact, which Ankara sent to parliament on Tuesday. There has been no official confirmation from Ankara, Riyadh or Islamabad.
The four countries have agreed to cooperate on military production, training and research and development, in a memorandum the Turkish defence ministry says carries substantial economic importance.
HSBC Group CEO Georges Elhedery says Gulf states are accelerating alternative energy export routes as the region works to reduce reliance on the strategic waterway.
Air France-KLM, Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa and other carriers push back Riyadh and Dubai cancellations after Houthi strikes on King Khalid International Airport killed at least 20 people this month.
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu's first visit to Pakistan in 11 years yields 20 agreements spanning defence, maritime security, trade and tourism, as Shehbaz Sharif pledges to strengthen ties.
The 125-year-old mosque's imam says electricity and water were cut and the premises ordered vacated within six days; Owaisi and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq demand the Centre intervene.
Italy approves a security decree creating a new offence for violent participation in protests and making parents liable for damage by their children, after a weekend of riots in Milan.
Marco Rubio says Pakistan is a country the US "has to have a relationship with," citing its nuclear arsenal and geography, as his India trip skips New Delhi with no Modi meeting announced.
Field Marshal Asim Munir lands in Tehran for the latest in a series of visits as Pakistan continues mediating between Iran and the United States.
Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar and Indonesia are expected to sign a defence industry cooperation memorandum in Doha as Qatar plans a local defence production hub.
Suspected militants shoot dead at least two Meitei men collecting firewood near Imphal East-Kangpokpi border; residents lay the bodies outside the chief minister's residence as police fire tear gas.
Lt Gen (Retd) Mazhar Jamil, adviser to Pakistan's National Command Authority, tells an IISS London audience India's No First Use policy is a "diplomatic ruse" and defends Pakistan's response to the May 2025 crisis.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke accuses Narendra Modi of hiding behind police and courts, as two of his colleagues remain in judicial custody over a Jantar Mantar protest.
Saudi Arabia's newly appointed ambassador Rajeh Tami Albugamy called on Field Marshal Asim Munir in Rawalpindi, with both sides citing progress under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement.
Speaking outside Avenfield House in London, the PML-N president said the army's sacrifices were beyond doubt and that those carrying out terrorism should face no leniency.
A clean sweep of 2026's global rankings — the world's strongest passport, the world's safest city, and the Arab world's happiest country — adds up to one of the stronger soft-power years the UAE has had.
DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry details the Makkah alliance's secretariat, its Article 51 legal basis, and a maritime coalition spanning Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb, in an interview with Independent Arabia.
DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry says Islamabad has kept channels open to Tehran for months, warning that the region's repeating escalation cycle serves only those seeking chaos.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry tells Independent Arabia that Saudi sovereignty and the Two Holy Mosques are non-negotiable, and that the Makkah alliance's collective-deterrence clause is already in effect.
India's airlines say the squeeze from Pakistan's airspace ban and a global jet-fuel shock could sink them. Routes are being cut, but no major carrier has actually gone under.
Twenty-nine Air India routes cut in three months, a Vienna-Delhi link gone by Halloween, a lonely Chennai-Réunion service flying its last leg in October. The cuts are small on their own. Together they are a pattern.
India's airlines say jet fuel now eats up 55-60% of operating costs, nearly double its usual share, as the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz closure send ATF prices soaring.
A rolling monthly NOTAM has kept Pakistani skies shut to Indian carriers since April 2025, piling up close to $2 billion in losses with no renewal deadline ever truly final.
Dove Airlines folded into liquidation in January 2026 and got swept into roundups of airline trouble. It had not flown a single route since 2022, years before the pressures it is now blamed for even began.
Since July, a protest movement has tested how free India's institutions really are. The record the state has filed under oath keeps colliding with the one its own evidence shows.
Rahul Gandhi and nine other opposition leaders have taken India's Election Commission to the Supreme Court over more than 130 million vanished voters.
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN have converged on the same verdict about India's mass detentions, a record that 'mother of democracy' rhetoric does not easily survive.
Grandparents and students waved the same flag over the same grievance in central Delhi, a sign the Cockroach protests have outgrown their organisers.
A campaign that began mocking the Election Commission with an insect's name just drew a national film star and millions of online followers to Freedom Park.
Mobile data cut, journalists in judicial custody, a historic protest ground de-notified: Delhi's response to the SIR protests looks less like crowd control and more like attrition.
Trump says his new spokesperson should reconsider the role, as reports say she is leaving after a short debut briefing and questions over her credentials.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reaffirmed that Pakistan stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Saudi Arabia in safeguarding its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, in a meeting in Islamabad with the newly arrived Saudi Ambassador, Dr Rajeh Tami Albugamy.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will land in India this week with a schedule that leaves out New Delhi and includes no announced meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Protests are gathering pace across India, with the Cockroach Janta Party set to hold another demonstration at Delhi's Connaught Place on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to restrain it.
