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Pakistan–Afghanistan Border Conflict

Follow Pakistan’s operations along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, including airstrikes in Kunar, Helmand and Paktika, ground firing exchanges, and the diplomatic track with Kabul.

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A Pakistan State Oil petrol and CNG filling station with a broad white canopy, fuel pumps and a small shop beside a road in Hyderabad, Sindh.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan cuts petrol by Rs2.93 and raises diesel by 61 paisas for October 13

Pakistan cut petrol by Rs2.93 to Rs395.37 a litre and raised high-speed diesel by 61 paisas to Rs396.85 from 13 October under its daily pricing mechanism.

A Libyan oil facility seen from the air, with a cluster of tanks and pipelines against a desert landscape.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan opens Libya crude channel and lines up TPAO Indus Basin survey

Pakistani Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik told his Libyan counterpart on 12 October at the IEF in Riyadh that refineries should consider Libyan crude.

A camouflaged Pakistan Army transporter-erector-launcher and its flatbed trailer on display outdoors, with a Pakistani flag, spectators and buildings behind it.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan tests Fatah-2 extended-range hypersonic ballistic missile

The Pakistan Army said it test-launched an extended-range Fatah-2 hypersonic ballistic missile on 13 October 2026, a weapon ISPR says can defeat missile defences.

Two officials seated across a polished wooden table exchanging signed documents, with a man in a dark suit and a woman in a light blue jacket on one side and officials in dark suits and a woman in a dark patterned headscarf on the other, with small national flags in the background.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan, Azerbaijan agree to expand Asaan Khidmat network nationwide after Shehbaz-Aliyev call

PM Shehbaz and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agreed in a Saturday call to convert strategic ties into expanded trade and to roll Asaan Khidmat centres out across Pakistan.

The multi-storey Punjab Assembly building on The Mall in Lahore, seen from the roadside with trees and passing traffic in the foreground.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Amnesty International says Punjab's anti-terror amendment allows secret trials

Amnesty International said the Punjab Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Act 2026 lets authorities hold near-secret terrorism trials and warned it undermines fair-trial rights.

A Norse Atlantic Airways Boeing 787-9 in white and blue livery parked at an airport gate with a jet bridge attached, support vehicles on the apron, blue sky and scattered clouds in the background.Pakistan / Business & Finance

PIA to lease two Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners from Norse Atlantic for UK routes from November

PIA signed an ACMI wet-lease on 9 October 2026 with Norse Atlantic Airways for two Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners — its first 787 widebodies — to operate Pakistan-UK services.

The State Bank of Pakistan building on Mall Road in Lahore, a colonnaded heritage facade behind a low boundary wall, photographed in daylight.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan's September remittances cool to $3.59bn, putting FY27 on track for about $43.5bn

State Bank of Pakistan data show workers' remittances fell 1.9 per cent month-on-month to $3.59 billion in September 2026, lifting the Jul-Sep total to $10.88 billion.

Pakistan State Oil tanker trucks parked alongside a PSO filling station in Punjab, with the green PSO logo visible above the canopy.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan trims petrol by 66 paisas to Rs398.30 and lifts diesel by 52 paisas to Rs396.24 for October 10–12

Petrol eases to Rs398.30 a litre while high-speed diesel rises to Rs396.24 from 10 October under the daily pricing mechanism, with OGRA already publishing daily notifications.

A nuclear power station on the shore of a large lake, with a domed containment building, low turbine buildings and steam rising under a clear sky.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

IAEA finds Pakistan's nuclear security regime robust in first IPPAS review

The IAEA's first physical-protection review of Pakistan concluded on 9 October 2026, finding a robust nuclear security regime and recommending further improvements.

Stage photograph of a packed Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi auditorium in 2011 with dancers, a live band and crew under bright theatrical lighting and the audience seated in the foreground.Pakistan / Entertainment & Culture

Karachi to host World Culture Festival with 1,500 artists from 150 countries

The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi and the Sindh government will host the third World Culture Festival from 29 October to 22 November 2026, with 80% of programmes free.

ISE Towers, the Islamabad Stock Exchange building in Islamabad, Pakistan, a tall office block that housed one of Pakistan's predecessor exchanges before their integration into the Pakistan Stock Exchange.Pakistan / Business & Finance

PSX KSE-100 ends 1,138 points lower despite IMF staff-level agreement

Pakistan's KSE-100 benchmark closed 1,138.5 points or 0.68 percent lower at 167,441.91 on 8 October 2026, reversing an early IMF-deal-driven rally as regional tensions returned.

A view of Shahra-e-Dastoor in Islamabad with the federal government district's broad central reservation lined by trees and framed by Pakistan's official buildings.Pakistan / Technology & Telecom

PM Shehbaz orders federal ministries to feed Pakistan's central data centre

PM Shehbaz Sharif on 8 October 2026 ordered federal ministries to send digitised data to Pakistan's national central data centre under the Digital Nation Programme.