Latest updates, national breaking news, government declarations, and developmental projects from Pakistan.
PakistanThe IMF and World Bank launched the Bangkok Blueprint for Fraud-Resilient Financial Services on October 14 at their annual meetings in Bangkok — a 12-point framework to help countries fight cyber-enabled fraud. Thai officials said digital scams now cost the world economy about $1 trillion a year, with Asia accounting for 67 percent of global fraud losses in 2024.
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PakistanTwo commercial ships were lost or hit near the Strait of Hormuz in mid-October, including the Singapore-registered GFS Pride, which sank on October 13 after being struck by an unknown projectile. A second Singapore vessel, GFS Giselle, was hit on October 14 and reached safe anchorage. All 43 crew members from both ships are safe.
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PakistanPakistan and Russia agreed to deepen security cooperation in Islamabad as Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev met Mohsin Naqvi for landmark talks.
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PakistanSupporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan broke through a ring of shipping containers sealing off Islamabad on Tuesday, battling police and defying a government threat to answer gunfire with gunfire. At least one person died in the violent clashes and scores were injured, in the sharpest escalation yet of Pakistan's deepening political crisis.
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PakistanThe Karachi-to-Peshawar Rehman Baba Express derailed near Multan early Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring more than 30 others, after all 14 of its coaches came off the tracks near Sher Shah Bridge in Punjab province. FAKTA The accident: The Rehman Baba Express (47-Up), travelling from Karachi to Peshawar with more than 500
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PakistanEarly voting began Tuesday in Georgia for the November 3 midterm elections, opening nearly three weeks of in-person balloting in one of the country's most closely watched battleground states. Voters will decide the governor's office, a U.S. Senate seat and a full slate of statewide offices.
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PakistanPanama earthquake relief efforts are now in full motion as the government mobilizes personnel and supplies to the Azuero Peninsula, where a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck on October 9, 2026, toppling buildings and roads, while aftershocks keep rattling the region.
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PakistanQUETTA: Two Pakistan Army Aviation pilots were martyred on Monday when their Mushshak training aircraft crashed near Nawan Killi in Quetta, Balochistan, after developing a technical fault, the military's media wing said. FAKTA What happened: A Mushshak training aircraft of Pakistan Army Aviation crashed near Nawan Killi, Quetta, around midday on 12 October 2026, due
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PakistanFinance ministers, central bankers and development officials opened the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on October 12, facing the biggest energy supply shock in history, record government debt and rising rates. From October 12–18 they must coordinate a response to war-driven oil disruption, the G7’s emergency reserve release, AI-driven inflation and deepening debt distress across developing countries.
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PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari has declared emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under Articles 232/234, suspending the PTI-led provincial government. The federal cabinet cited a grave law-and-order crisis; PTI rejected the move as a disguised coup.
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PakistanRIYADH — Twelve people were killed and 309 injured when an attack blamed on Yemen's Houthi group struck King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday afternoon, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said early Sunday, in the third attack on Saudi airports this week. FAKTA: Riyadh airport Houthi attack
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PakistanIslamabad: The Pakistan petrol price has been cut by 66 paisas per litre to Rs398.30, while high-speed diesel has been raised by 52 paisas to Rs396.24, in the latest revision under the government's daily fuel pricing mechanism. The new rates took effect on Saturday, 10 October 2026, and remain valid until Monday, 12 October.
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