SPI slips below double digits despite ME war

Index eases to 9.05% YoY; week-on-week tomato, chicken prices fall; diesel and petrol costs rise KARACHI: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended July 30, 2026 recorded a year-on-year increase of 9.05%, slipping below the double-digit threshold despite escalating tensions between the United States and Iran in the Middle East and the resultant…

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Fatima Jinnah’s birth anniversary marked

. SIALKOT: Government College Women University Sialkot (GCWUS) on Friday paid tribute to Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah on her birth anniversary, recognising her contributions to the Pakistan Movement, women’s political empowerment and national development. In a statement, the university said Fatima Jinnah, born on July 31, 1893, in Karachi, stood steadfastly alongside her brother, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad…

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NDMA issues flood alert for next three days

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued a nationwide alert warning of rising river flows, flash floods and urban flooding in several parts of the country as monsoon rains are expected to intensify over the next three days. The authority said significant increases in water levels are expected in major rivers and seasonal…

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FTTH subscriptions expand to 2.8m

ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan’s digital development momentum gains pace, the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriptions have grown steadily to 2.8 million, supported by a robust fibre footprint spread over 234,000 kilometres, 5.1 million homes passed and six operational submarine cables. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Cheema chaired a meeting on the National Connectivity Plan, joined by Minister…

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Arshad Nadeem crashes out of CWG

Nadeem looked completely off-colour as he bowed out early in the 12-man final, leaving fans shell-shocked KARACHI: In a shocking turn of events, Pakistan’s Olympic gold medalist Arshad Nadeem failed miserably to defend his Commonwealth Games crown, delivering a dismal performance at the Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow on Friday night. The javelin superstar, who shattered…

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Rawalpindi braces for AJK polls amid street protests

Over 4k cops will secure 175 polling stations; 31 polling stations declared sensitive RAWALPINDI: Election campaigning for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly refugee constituencies in the Rawalpindi Division concluded on Friday, with the police finalising extensive security for the elections on Sunday amid protests in Rawalkot. Authorities announced that the election code…

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Three killed in six ‘encounters’

. GUJRANWALA: Three alleged criminals were killed and three others injured in six separate encounters involving Gujranwala Police and the Crime Control Department (CCD), while more than 12 kilogrammes of narcotics, stolen property and illegal weapons were recovered during the operations, police said on Friday. According to police, the operations were carried out under the…

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Post-Article 370 IIOJK: seven years on

. Despite the passage of seven years since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, India’s narrative framing the move as a historic achievement of peace and integration is utterly unmasked by severe economic distress, rising unemployment, relentless political unrest, heavy militarization, and demographic engineering. According to defence and foreign policy analysts, mere economic statistics…

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Monsoon downpour swamps Pindi

RAWALPINDI: The first torrential monsoon rainfall of the season, which lashed the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Friday, brought Rawalpindi to a standstill on Friday, inundating roads, markets and residential neighbourhoods, disrupting transport and utilities, and exposing significant shortcomings in the city’s drainage and flood management infrastructure. The district administration declared a rain…

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