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The Vienna International Centre, the United Nations complex in Austria that houses the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

PM Shehbaz reaffirms Pakistan's IAEA support in Vienna

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in Vienna and witnessed the designation of Lahore's INMOL as an IAEA collaborating centre on 17 February 2026.

The entrance to the Peshawar to Islamabad M-1 motorway near Peshawar, showing toll plazas and road signs.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Peshawar High Court orders reopening of PTI-blocked roads

The Peshawar High Court ordered authorities to reopen highways and major roads blocked by PTI protests across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 17 February 2026.

Police officers and vehicles on a street in Karachi, Sindh, in a file photograph of local police.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Karachi CTD kills four militants in Shah Latif Town raid

Counter-Terrorism Department officers killed four militants in a shootout in Karachi's Shah Latif Town and found explosives being prepared in drums, officials said.

A terrain map of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, showing its tehsil boundaries and neighbouring districts.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Bajaur check post attack kills 11 security personnel and a girl

A vehicle-borne suicide attack and fire raid on a joint security check post in Bajaur on 16 February 2026 killed 11 security personnel and a young girl, the military said.

A Pakistan State Oil fuel station with a canopy and pumps beside a road in Hyderabad, Sindh.

Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan raises petrol by Rs5 and diesel by Rs7.32 a litre

The federal government raised petrol to Rs258.17 and high-speed diesel to Rs275.70 per litre for the fortnight from 16 February 2026, a Petroleum Division notification said.

Imran Khan, wearing a dark suit, speaks at a lectern during a 2010 event in London.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Law minister says Imran Khan has 70% vision in one eye as report confirms CRVO

Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on 16 February 2026 that jailed Imran Khan had about 70% vision in one eye with glasses, as a court report confirmed a diagnosed eye condition.

A helicopter flies over the Tarbela Dam and its reservoir on the Indus River, with spillway water visible below.

International — Region / International — Region

Pakistan asks World Bank and UN to act over Indus waters 'violations'

Pakistani experts urged the World Bank and UN to intervene, warning that reduced Chenab River flows threaten food security in Punjab and Azad Kashmir.

The colonnaded sandstone facade of the State Bank of Pakistan building under a blue sky.

Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan repays $700m Chinese loan as FX reserves fall to $15.5bn

Pakistan repaid a $700 million China Development Bank loan, cutting gross official reserves to $15.5 billion ahead of an IMF review mission due on 25 February 2026.

Imran Khan, wearing a dark jacket, speaks at a public event in a file photograph from 2013.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Government decides to shift Imran Khan to hospital and form medical board

The government said on 15 February 2026 it would shift jailed Imran Khan to hospital and form a medical board, as an opposition sit-in over his eyesight continued.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stands at a wooden podium during the launch ceremony of the Ramazan relief package as a large screen displays the programme's title and his portrait.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

PM Shehbaz unveils Rs38bn Ramazan Package 2026 as cashless relief

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launched a Rs38 billion Ramazan Package on 14 February, promising Rs13,000 in digital cash to each of more than 12 million families.

Uniformed Pakistan Maritime Security Agency personnel stand behind rows of colour-coded sacks of seized narcotics and bottles of liquor laid out in front of an agency building.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan forces seize drugs and liquor worth over Rs20bn in Arabian Sea

Pakistani security forces seized more than 1,300 kilograms of hashish and a large quantity of liquor from a stateless vessel in the Arabian Sea, the PMSA said.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Naeemur Rehman speaks into a microphone at an outdoor press conference, flanked by other party leaders and a cluster of media microphones.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Police tear-gas JI protesters at Sindh Assembly; party calls Karachi sit-ins

Police used tear gas and batons against Jamaat-e-Islami workers marching on the Sindh Assembly, prompting the party to announce sit-ins at 10 Karachi sites.