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A green valley with cultivated fields, scattered trees and rocky mountains under a pale sky in Karak district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Four police officers, including CTD DSP, killed in Karak operation

Four Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police personnel, including a CTD DSP and an SHO, were killed in a search-and-strike operation in Karak on 22 October; two militants also died.

An aerial view of a coastal city on a narrow peninsula beside deep blue sea, with bare tan mountains and a crescent-shaped bay behind the built-up area.

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Three militants killed as forces foil attack on Gwadar construction camp

Security forces killed three Fitna al-Hindustan militants and surrounded seven more in Gwadar on 22 October after foiling an attack on an empty construction camp.

The sandstone facade of the Lahore High Court building, with arched windows and a central entrance.

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LHC summons Punjab officials over Imran Khan sisters' continued detention

The Lahore High Court summoned Punjab's home secretary and Kot Lakhpat jail chief over Imran Khan's three sisters, who remain jailed after their 30-day MPO orders expired.

A PSO petrol pump island under a canopy on the Grand Trunk Road in Punjab, with fuel dispensers and price signage

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Government and Jamaat-e-Islami set 23 October talks on petroleum levy, with protests to run 'side by side'

Government and Jamaat-e-Islami committees meet in Islamabad on 23 October on the petroleum levy, after a fresh call from Ahsan Iqbal, as nationwide sit-ins still go ahead.

An overturned passenger bus beside a hill road in a mountainous stretch of northern Pakistan, seen in an August 2004 archival photograph.

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Ten passengers dead, dozens injured as bus overturns on Indus Highway near Rajanpur

A Karachi-to-Dera Ghazi Khan passenger bus overturned near Bangla Hidayat on the Indus Highway in Rajanpur on 21 October 2026, killing 10 and injuring 35, Rescue 1122 said.

A wide, tree-lined avenue in Islamabad with a blue road sign pointing towards the Supreme Court of Pakistan and hills in the distance.

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K-P emergency challenged in Federal Constitutional Court as PHC sets 10 November hearing

A Lahore lawyer asked the Federal Constitutional Court to void K-P's emergency and governor's rule, while the Peshawar High Court issued notices and set a 10 November hearing.

Pakistan's Parliament House in Islamabad at night, its facade covered in strings of red, green and white lights around a central illuminated Urdu sign.

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Senate bill lets former lawmakers keep blue passports after partial terms

The Senate approved a bill allowing former MPs and senators to retain official blue passports even if they served only part of a term. The National Assembly must still approve it.

A sandstone court building with a central dome, columns and arched windows, seen across a paved courtyard with pigeons in the foreground.

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Sindh cabinet to publish Mir Raza report that found murder and police failure

Sindh's cabinet decided to publish the Mir Raza Ali inquiry report after it found he was murdered and police mishandled the investigation, recommending a JIT and FIA inquiry.

A wide view of the Quaid-i-Azam University campus in Islamabad, with academic buildings set against green slopes and a partly cloudy sky.

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PM Shehbaz inaugurates Daanish School Kuri in Islamabad

PM Shehbaz Sharif on 18 October 2026 opened Daanish School Kuri and said the network has more than 40,000 students and 28 schools under construction.

Arid, rocky terrain and a road running through the Balochistan landscape, with low hills on the horizon.

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Major Wajahat Waheed martyred in Gwadar IED blast; four militants killed in Kalat IBO

ISPR says a Pakistan Army major was killed by an improvised device in Shadi Kaur, Pasni tehsil, while a day-earlier operation in Jattakabad, Kalat eliminated four militants.

Schoolgirls in pink uniforms read textbooks at wooden desks inside a government primary-school classroom in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with light falling through the open doorway.

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K-P launches province-wide identification of unsafe school buildings four days after Peshawar collapse

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Advisory Council for Education says the process of identifying unsafe school buildings across the province has begun, four days after a Peshawar roof collapse.

The yellow-stone Mohatta Palace Museum in Clifton, Karachi, photographed in daylight, showing its central dome, arched windows and surrounding trees against a clear sky.

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Bilawal offers to lift K-P emergency if opposition joins joint anti-terror plan

PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday the K-P emergency and governor's rule can end if opposition parties agree on a joint anti-terrorism strategy.