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Riyadh's skyline at dusk, with the Kingdom Centre's spire and globe lit on the right, blue-lit office towers rising behind low buildings and an illuminated medical centre sign in the foreground.Archival photograph · 8 February 2018 · Riyadh
International — Region / International — Region

Saudi Arabia and Syria sign defence agreement as Damascus weighs Makkah pact entry

Saudi Arabia and Syria signed a defence-ministries agreement in Riyadh on 4 November with more than $403m in Saudi loans, as Damascus weighs joining the Makkah pact.

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A white government building in Islamabad with a dark panel of Urdu script set into its facade, seen from below behind a canopy of green trees.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Saudi Arabia extends $3bn loan rollover as Pakistan briefs Senate on external financing

Saudi Arabia has extended the $3bn loan that matured in October, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told a Senate committee briefed on a $21.5bn external financing requirement.

The sandstone facade of the former State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi, now the State Bank Museum, with a columned verandah, the words State Bank Museum carved into the frieze and a Pakistani flag on a flagpole in front.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Cabinet approves Rs10 coin to replace banknote and new currency note designs

Pakistan's cabinet approved a Rs10 coin to replace the Rs10 banknote and signed off new currency note designs, but published no date for the note to lose legal tender status.

An aerial night view of central Kuwait City, with lit government buildings, the Kuwait Towers and traffic on the waterfront highway.International — Region / International — Region

Federal cabinet ratifies defence cooperation agreement with Kuwait

Pakistan's cabinet ratified the defence cooperation agreement with Kuwait on 4 November, activating a framework on training, joint exercises and border support.

Parliament House in Islamabad illuminated at night, its white walls and tiled sloping roofs outlined in lights behind dark trees and an empty road.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Opposition forms All Parties Conference committees and vows countrywide movement

Opposition parties meeting at Maulana Fazlur Rehman's residence on 4 November named committees for an All Parties Conference and pledged a countrywide movement.

Constitution Avenue in Islamabad viewed from the Pir Sohawa hillside, with the road curving past government office blocks and trees at the foot of the Margalla Hills.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Cabinet clears One Constitution Avenue fraud findings and returns project to hotel use

The cabinet has approved a JIT report on the One Constitution Avenue project, ordered it returned to hotel use, referred the file to NAB and promised buyers refunds.

A panoramic view down over Islamabad from the hills, with a long avenue of government buildings, wooded ridges, a lake and a white-domed mosque in the distance.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Federal Constitutional Court suspends Peshawar High Court orders on MPO arrests

The Federal Constitutional Court has barred the Peshawar High Court from hearing MPO detention cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suspended the orders it is challenging.

Aerial view of Korangi Town in southeastern Karachi, with the Korangi Creek waterway, sandy open ground, scattered industrial buildings and drifting clouds of smoke under a wide sky.Pakistan / Business & Finance

FBR chairman says government plans to abolish super tax

Pakistan's revenue board chairman says the government intends to abolish the super tax, after its rate was cut by two percentage points, with work started on phasing it out.

Inside a polling station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, election officials sit at a table sorting stacks of coloured voter slips beside a transparent ballot box while voters and party agents wait near the door.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

ECP sets 7 February 2027 for Punjab local government polls and suspends the K-P process

The Election Commission of Pakistan set 7 February 2027 for the first phase of Punjab local government elections and suspended all Khyber Pakhtunkhwa poll preparations.

The granite facade and entrance canopy of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan, with bollards lining the pavement in front.International — Region / International — Region

US judge blocks deportation of Afghans to Pakistan and Afghanistan

A New York federal judge has temporarily barred the US from deporting more than 150 Afghans to Afghanistan or Pakistan, days before flights were due to leave Louisiana.

A ring of blue gas flames burning on a domestic stove burner.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan limits household gas to three daily windows as winter shortage bites

SSGC and SNGPL will supply household gas only from 6:30–9am, 12–2:30pm and 6–9pm as LNG shortages force winter rationing.

A dense green wheat crop fills the foreground of a flat field, with scattered trees and a pale sky in the distance.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Sindh cuts wheat release price, saying flour is Rs17 a kilo cheaper

Sindh's cabinet cut the government wheat release price by Rs500 to Rs4,500 per 40kg, and Senior Minister Sharjeel Memon said flour prices had fallen by Rs17 a kilogram.