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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Saima Shabbir |Hasaan Ali Khan
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, including Pakistanis, have started arriving at Mina, marking the beginning of annual Hajj rituals in the Saudi holy city of Makkah. Nearly 89,000 Pakistanis have traveled to Saudi Arabia under the government’s Hajj scheme and over 23,620 Pakistanis are performing Hajj through private tour operators.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Saima Shabbir |Hasaan Ali Khan
ISLAMABAD: A top Pakistani representative on Tuesday told journalists at the United Nations (UN) that Pakistan had nothing to do with an April attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that sparked a four-day military conflict between the neighbors, reiterating Islamabad’s offer to cooperate with New Delhi on militancy and other issues under a “comprehensive dialogue.” Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, a former Pakistani foreign minister, has been leading a nine-member parliamentary delegation, constituted...
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Saima Shabbir |Hasaan Ali Khan
Islamabad’s delegation in New York to advance Pakistan’s case following India standoff briefs UNSC /node/2603135/pakistan June 02, 2025 22:26 Islamabad’s delegation in New York to advance Pakistan’s case following India standoff briefs UNSC PM appointed delegation to visit world capitals to advocate for Pakistan after latest military confrontation with India Military escalation between May 7-10 saw the two countries trade missile, drones and artillery fire until US brokered a ceasefire...
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Saima Shabbir |Hasaan Ali Khan |Kashif Imran
ISLAMABAD: A high-level Pakistani delegation, led by former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has met representatives of the United Nations Security Council’s elected member states and briefed them on last month’s conflict between India and Pakistan as well as New Delhi’s attempt to block Pakistan’s share of Indus waters, Pakistani state media reported on Monday.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Saima Shabbir |Hasaan Ali Khan |Kashif Imran
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Monday issued a fresh alert about rains and strong, dusty winds in the province from June 2 till June 5, days after thunderstorms killed nearly two dozen people in Pakistan’s most populous province. Thunderstorms killed at least 21 people and injured more than 100 others in Punjab as moist currents penetrated upper parts of Pakistan late last month, according to national and provincial disaster management authorities.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Hasaan Ali Khan |Kashif Imran |Ismail Dilawar
Pakistan will play all their women’s 50-over World Cup matches in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo when India hosts this year’s tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday. Politically-estranged India and Pakistan, who have not played a bilateral series since 2013, will play their matches in neutral venues when either country hosts an ICC event, the sport’s global governing body announced in December.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Hasaan Ali Khan |Ismail Dilawar |Naimat Khan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has announced a four-day holiday on Eid Al-Adha starting from June 6, the Cabinet Division said on Monday. Eid Al-Adha is one of the two most important festivals of the Islamic calendar. The other, Eid Al-Fitr, occurs at the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. Muslims mark the Eid Al-Adha holiday by slaughtering animals such as sheep and goats, and the meat is shared among family and friends and donated to the poor.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Ismail Dilawar |Fatimah Amjad
ISLAMABAD: Police killed four militants in a successful operation in Dera Ghazi Khan district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, Pakistani state media reported on Sunday. The Dera Ghazi Khan, or DG Khan, district borders the southwestern Balochistan and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) where Pakistan has been battling twin insurgencies.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Kashif Imran |Ismail Dilawar |Fatimah Amjad
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy has conducted a comprehensive two-day exercise to counter sub-conventional and asymmetric threats to all major ports and harbors, its Directorate General of Public Relations (DGPR) said on Sunday, weeks after a four-day standoff with India. While air forces and armies of both countries traded jet, drone, missile and artillery strikes last month, the two navies did not reportedly engage each other during the four-day standoff.
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3 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Ismail Dilawar |Fatimah Amjad |Kashif Imran |Shahjahan Khurram
KARACHI: Pakistan on Sunday reaffirmed its commitment to macroeconomic stability after Ipsos, a Paris-based global market research and consultation firm, said consumer confidence grew in the South Asian country in the second quarter of this year. The Ipsos survey revealed a significant surge in consumer confidence, with 42% of Pakistanis now believing the country is heading in the right direction — the highest level recorded in six years.
