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Flights cut, fares skyrocket worldwide amid Middle East unrest

• Jet fuel prices nearly double, pushing carriers towards financial dilemma• Airlines from Asia to Europe respond with fuel surcharges• Crisis threatens to derail peak tourism season as consumers reassess plans PARIS: A war in Iran has sent the global aviation industry into a tailspin, forcing th...

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Collective security
Collective security

ERASING previously defined ‘red lines’, the brutal US-Israeli war on Iran has brought regional st...

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Astrophysicists figure out what caused a super-bright sup...

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PM Shehbaz recommends PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi as Sindh governor
PM Shehbaz recommends PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi as Sindh governor

ISLAMABAD: In a surprise move on Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to appoint P...

US to permanently close its Peshawar Consulate: report
US to permanently close its Peshawar Consulate: report

The United States has announced that it will permanently close its consulate in Peshawar, The Ind...

Pakistan backs Bahrain, Russia draft resolutions at UNSC, urges de-escalation
Pakistan backs Bahrain, Russia draft resolutions at UNSC,...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan has outlined the rationale behind its votes on two competing draft resolutio...

Pakistan, seven other Muslim countries, condemn Israel’s closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque gates
Pakistan, seven other Muslim countries, condemn Israel’s ...

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, S...

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Attacks on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz leave world on edge
Attacks on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz leave world on edge

• US warns of Iranian plans to mine waters of the strait, claims destroying 16 minelayers• Three commercial ships attacked by projectiles• Eight US soldiers, over 1,200 Iranians among nearly 1,900 ...

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Reparations, guarantees only ‘off-ramp’, says Pezeshkian
Reparations, guarantees only ‘off-ramp’, says Pezeshkian

• Iranian president acknowledges proposals by Pakistan, Russia to de-escalate• PM’s aide says Islamabad continues to stand by Riyadh ‘no matter what’ ISLAMABAD: Iran’s president has demanded “repar...

Analysis by Baqir Sajjad Syed

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Women MNAs contribute nearly half of National Assembly agenda
Women MNAs contribute nearly half of National Assembly agenda

• Fafen report reveals they account for 48pc of plenary agenda despite holding less than 22pc of seats • On average, each woman lawmaker submits three times more items than their male counterparts•...

Analysis by Iftikhar A. Khan

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FCC upholds SHC order on deceased employee quota
FCC upholds SHC order on deceased employee quota

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Wednesday rejected a set of appeals filed by the Sindh government challenging the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) order regarding appointments under th...

Analysis by Nasir Iqbal

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Checkpoints, air strikes and hope: a Tehran resident tells her story
Checkpoints, air strikes and hope: a Tehran resident tells her story

Torn between hope and fear, a Tehran resident in her 30s agrees to share her thoughts with AFP about the ongoing war and daily life. We are withholding her identity for her protection. Here is an e...

Analysis by AFP

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