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The Passu Glacier and surrounding rugged mountains in Gilgit-Baltistan, with a braided glacial river bed in the foreground and snow-capped peaks on the horizon.

NDMA warns of heavy rain and glacial floods across Pakistan

Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority issued a nationwide alert for thunderstorms, heavy rain and glacial lake outburst flood risk from 18 to 22 May 2026.

Hazy farmland around Jacobabad, Sindh, with a field of tall green and golden crops in the foreground and trees along the horizon.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Armed mob burns homes in Jacobabad over love marriage

Police said about 400 armed people attacked a village in Jacobabad district and set fire to more than 150 homes after a video of an inter-community love marriage spread online.

Mohammad Ishaq Dar, wearing a dark suit and tie, is shown from the chest up against a pale background.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan repatriates 11 nationals and 20 Iranians from seized vessels

Deputy PM Ishaq Dar said the 31 people taken from vessels seized by the United States on the high seas were flown home via Singapore and Bangkok on 15 May.

The People's Bank of China headquarters, a tall curved tower, seen from a street in Beijing.

Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan's debut Panda bond oversubscribed five times

Pakistan raised RMB 1.75 billion, about $250 million, in its first yuan-denominated sovereign bond in China's onshore market, drawing demand of more than five times the offer.

Rocky hills and a dry valley in Bajaur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with sparse vegetation on the slopes.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Nine attackers killed as forces repel Bajaur camp assault

Security forces repelled an overnight assault on a camp in Bajaur, with official sources saying four soldiers died and nine attackers were killed, as accounts of the toll differed.

Arid, rocky mountains with a winding dirt track leading toward a small white building on a ridge, with a valley floor and transmission poles in the foreground near Saindak.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Six soldiers reported killed in Noshki convoy attack

Armed fighters attacked a convoy of 20 trucks carrying minerals from Saindak near Noshki in Balochistan, with local sources reporting at least six security personnel killed.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman, wearing an orange patterned turban, glasses and a white beard, sits in a dark waistcoat in front of a banner reading Pakistan.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

JUI-F announces nationwide inflation protests from 22 May

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced countrywide demonstrations against inflation at all district headquarters on 22 May, with a major gathering in Pishin on 4 June.

Five men in formal suits and a sherwani stand in a row before a large framed painting in a room, with a green flag on the left and a Pakistan flag on the right.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan says US-Iran peace process 'underway' at FO briefing

The Foreign Office rejected a report about an Iranian aircraft in Pakistan, said mediation between Washington and Tehran continued, and welcomed voices in India favouring dialogue.

A US official speaks at a podium bearing a 'Legacy Returns Home' exhibition banner, with US and Pakistani flags and the Islamabad Museum sign above.

Pakistan / Entertainment & Culture

US returns over 450 looted antiquities to Pakistan

The United States returned more than 450 looted antiquities worth over $23 million to Pakistan at an Islamabad Museum ceremony, one of the largest such repatriations in years.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, speaks at a microphone in a legislative chamber with lawmakers seated behind him.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Asif warns of 'open war' with Afghanistan over militant attacks

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told the National Assembly that Pakistan could be left with 'open war' if Kabul does not stop militants launching attacks from Afghan soil.

Soldiers in camouflage and helmets stand with rifles and metal detectors around a crater and rubble beside a stone wall during a security operation.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Major among five soldiers martyred in Barkhan operation

Pakistan's military said five security personnel, including a major, were martyred and seven militants killed in a sanitisation operation in Barkhan district, Balochistan.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

UNICEF decries ninth school attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

UNICEF said a girls' primary school in Tank district was destroyed with explosives, the ninth attack on a school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year, and called for protection.