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The floodlit pavilion and tiered stands of the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium under a dusk sky, with the outfield and boundary advertising boards in the foreground.Archival photograph · 4 March 2020 · Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
Pakistan / Entertainment & Culture

Debutant Saqib Khan takes seven as Pakistan take a 12-run lead in the Rawalpindi Test

Debutant fast bowler Saqib Khan took seven for 130 to have Sri Lanka bowled out for 446 on day four of the first Test in Rawalpindi, giving Pakistan a 12-run first-innings lead.

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The Bab-e-Khyber gateway, a white stone arch with round bastions and a Pakistani flag flying above it, spans a busy road into Peshawar with cars, minarets and shopfronts beyond.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Anti-terrorism court reissues arrest warrants for KP's Sohail Afridi in Radio Pakistan case

Peshawar's anti-terrorism court reissued arrest warrants for dismissed KP chief minister Sohail Afridi in the Radio Pakistan arson case, and extended interim bail to 17 November.

Nvidia's glass-fronted headquarters on Scott Boulevard in Santa Clara, with a large NVIDIA sign and the number 2788 on a concrete wall.International — World / International — World

Nvidia board weighs ousting Jensen Huang after report of a second affair

Nvidia's board met on 11 November to decide whether to remove founder and CEO Jensen Huang, after reporting of a second affair with a company executive.

A paved mountain road with hairpin bends climbing a bare rocky pass above a wide valley.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Heavy snow closes Babusar Top road between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan

Mansehra police closed the Babusar Top road to Gilgit-Baltistan on 11 November after heavy snow, warning it could stay shut until summer as Kaghan families move to Hazara.

Cargo ships and tankers sit on the horizon beyond a stone breakwater, with sunlight glittering on calm water off the coast of Bandar Abbas in Iran.International — Region / International — Region

Iran rejects moving its enriched stockpile as Israel prepares for possible strikes

Tehran has turned down a US plan to move its 60 percent enriched uranium abroad while Israel ordered preparations for possible strikes, stalling the talks Pakistan brokers.

A car assembly line inside a factory, with partly built bodies and open bonnets moving under overhead tooling, cables and warning signs.Pakistan / Business & Finance

PM approves Auto Policy 2026-31 after IMF clearance, with a money bill for Parliament

Shehbaz Sharif has approved the Auto Policy 2026-31 after the IMF raised no objection, sending it to Parliament as a money bill with binding localisation and export targets.

The Sui Southern Gas Company headquarters in Karachi, a multi-storey stone-clad office block with rows of windows and the circular SSGC emblem on its upper facade, seen above street trees.Pakistan / Business & Finance

SNGPL and SSGC seek higher gas prices, with SSGC asking for Rs2,071 per MMBtu

The two Sui gas utilities have asked OGRA to lift their average prescribed gas prices for 2026-27, with SSGC seeking Rs2,071.75 per MMBtu. Household gas bills stay unchanged.

Three white fuel dispensers on concrete plinths at a roadside filling point, with a tanker truck parked beside a small building, tall pine trees and bare hills behind.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Petrol cut to Rs335 and diesel to Rs364 for 12 November

Petrol falls Rs3 to Rs335 a litre and high-speed diesel Rs7 to Rs364 for 12 November, the second straight daily cut, while Jamaat-e-Islami says its levy campaign will continue.

A wide view of the Kohat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a dry riverbed and green fields in the foreground and hazy mountains behind a town.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Eleven policemen killed in Kohat ambush during gold-mining raid

A police team raiding illegal gold mining at Darbokach in Kohat was ambushed on 11 November, killing 11 officers including a DSP and injuring 12, police said.

The Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC: a pale stone office building with a curved entrance portico behind a black iron fence, framed by trees and a green lamppost on a wide pavement.International — Region / International — Region

US deportation flight turns back after Pakistan declines to accept Iranian detainees

A US deportation flight carrying Iranian detainees bound for Iran turned around midair and landed back in Arizona after Pakistan declined to accept the group.

A steel lattice cellular tower with panel antennas and microwave dishes rising beside a brick building against a pale blue sky.Pakistan / Technology & Telecom

PM directs task force to finalise telecom industrial power tariff

Pakistan's Prime Minister's Office has directed a task force to finalise recommendations on extending industrial electricity tariffs to mobile operators.

The red-brick and cream facade of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad, with an arched entrance block carrying the hospital's name in English and Urdu above a fenced garden.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Imran Khan given sixth PIMS eye injection overnight, hours before ordered jail meeting

PIMS says Imran Khan received his sixth anti-VEGF eye injection overnight and was returned to Adiala jail, hours after the IHC ordered a lawyer meeting for his £190m appeal.