Governor’s rule in KP to end after six months but emergency stays until peace returns, minister says
Tariq Fazal Chaudhry also announced a Rs160 billion three-phase package for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, focused on its 12 worst-hit districts.
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Maryam Nawaz announces Apna Punjab Kisan Bank with interest-free loans of up to Rs100 million for farmers
The Punjab chief minister also promised land for farmers and a livestock push, saying loan eligibility and details would follow soon.
Iran dismisses Qatar’s new seven-day plan to end war as ‘unacceptable ideas’
A mediator-side official says Tehran is weighing the draft and will reply this week, but a senior Iranian official says it is ‘not an offer’ and Iran will not budge on its nuclear programme.
At least 68 killed in Spain high-speed train collision after train cleared through red signal
A Renfe train ploughed into the back of a stationary Iryo train near Urda on the Madrid–Seville line, in Spain’s second deadly rail crash this year.
Cyclone Arnab death toll rises to seven in Andhra Pradesh as Naidu announces relief, nearly 71,000 hectares of paddy hit
Families of the dead will get Rs5 lakh each as the stalled storm weakens over land and Chief Minister Naidu asks Delhi for a damage assessment team.
Pakistan shuts airspace to Taiwanese airlines in first-of-its-kind backing for One-China policy
“Only mainland China is allowed,” Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said, as China Airlines and EVA Air reroute Asia-Europe flights over Russia.
Israel election: Netanyahu bloc on 54 with two-thirds counted, Eisenkot and Arab parties would have 66
Netanyahu’s lead keeps narrowing, and the opposition could only reach a majority with the Arab-led lists, which won 18 seats on the partial count.
Nine Indian-sponsored terrorists killed in Balochistan operations in Kachhi and Wadh, ISPR says
Troops raided a hideout in Kachhi, killing seven, and intercepted two more in Wadh, the military said, as sanitisation operations continue.
Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resigns, says 26th and 27th Amendments have ‘compromised’ judicial independence
In his resignation letter, the Lahore High Court judge, one of six who accused spy agencies of meddling, cites the executive’s ‘growing control’ over the appointment and transfer of judges.
Lahore ranked world’s most polluted major city as smog thickens, AQI hits 296
Punjab’s environment agency blames easterly winds carrying pollution from across the Indian border, as Cairo and Delhi follow in IQAir’s ranking.
