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Counter-terrorism, the borders, policing and law and order, from the Line of Control to the coast.
Police arrest prime suspect in Gadap mobile phone theft case
Malir police say Babar alias Sahil Salman was held on his way to sell the handsets, with 40 phones and a pistol recovered from him.
Four killed in Islamabad and Karachi police encounters within 12 hours
Minute Mirror reports two Afghan nationals among the dead in the capital and eight injured and arrested in Karachi, saying the pattern has spread from Punjab.
DI Khan police arrest suspect, seize charas, meth and weapons
Two outlets framed a DI Khan arrest and a Peshawar warehouse raid as action under governor's rule, without giving the order's date, authority or terms.
Three shot dead near Quetta's Pood Gali Chowk
Police sources quoted in television reports said the attackers fled the scene and a search operation is under way; none of the dead has been identified.
Lahore woman jumps from moving motorcycle to escape alleged harassment
Police say she had booked the ride-hailing motorcycle in Johar Town on October 17 and was hurt in the fall; the rider fled the scene.
Asif sees 'progress' in Makkah alliance talks with Iran
Defence minister repeats that Pakistan is bound to defend Saudi Arabia and says the Tehran meeting may help end the kingdom's war with the Houthis
Former army chief General Abdul Waheed Kakar dies in Rawalpindi
ISPR says Field Marshal Asim Munir and the army offered condolences, while President Zardari and Deputy PM Ishaq Dar also expressed grief.
Poppy cultivation spreads in Balochistan after Afghan ban, reports say
Two independent outlets say the crop is expanding across the Pakistan-Iran borderland, but neither gives the area sown, the harvest size or the districts affected.
Sindh High Court moves thousands of narcotics cases to five Karachi courts
The Express Tribune reports the transfer order but does not name the five courts, give an exact case count or set out a timetable.
IGP orders probe into AKES driver's suicide in Gilgit
Piyar Ali of Danyor named five AKES officials in a video statement alleging mental pressure and harassment before his death on Friday.
Gunmen shoot dead Gujranwala bride on walima day; suspects at large
Dawn reports the killing was allegedly carried out by a jilted suitor, while CCTV footage obtained by ARY News shows two men on a motorcycle stopping her car.
Korangi woman shot dead; sister, brother-in-law and ex-husband booked
The FIR, lodged on her father's complaint in Karachi, says the 20-year-old had taken a khula and that her family was warned of threats from her former husband.
Punjab crime control department claims 63pc fall in September crime
The department says robbery and motorcycle theft were among the offences that dropped, but the reports carried no district breakdown or explanation of the data.
GPS spoofing shows two Pakistan-bound flights landing in India
Both Qatar Airways aircraft landed safely at Karachi and Islamabad on schedule, and the paper attributed the errors to corrupted positioning data rather than any diversion.
Karachi police arrest couple in international drug network
East police say the two received narcotics sent by bus from Quetta and arranged their onward shipment to Australia, where a ringleader sold them.
Foreign Office rejects Kabul's civilian casualty claim, says strikes hit militants
Islamabad says attacks launched from Afghan soil caused more than 3,500 casualties in Pakistan in 2026 and demands action against cross-border militancy.
Imaan Mazari, Hadi Chatha ask Supreme Court to halt terror trial
The couple says the Islamabad High Court's refusal of interim relief leaves their pending plea meaningless, and that removing security barriers is not terrorism.
Cyber agency warns of WhatsApp phishing campaign against officials
NCERT rates the threat high risk, saying attackers impersonate government departments and send infected files that hand hackers control of Windows machines.
Baloch rights group seeks probe into Quetta killing as protest continues
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee says Adeel Baloch was killed extrajudicially, while families of missing persons keep up a sit-in in Quetta, The Tribune reported.
Asim Munir, Saudi and Turkish officials meet Iran leadership in Tehran
Saudi Arabia confirmed the delegation on X, but Islamabad has issued no official statement on the army chief's visit.
Pakistani airlines suspend Saudi flights as Houthi strikes continue
Khaleej Times reports carriers from Pakistan, the UAE and Bangladesh have cancelled services to the kingdom, while Pakistani officials are named for planned Iran talks.
Pakistan demands verifiable Taliban action against TTP, rejects 'diversionary' claims
The information ministry cited UN and US reports estimating 4,000 to 6,000 TTP fighters operating from Afghan soil and sought credible answers from Kabul.
Former army chief Abdul Waheed Kakar dies in Rawalpindi at 89
Field Marshal Asim Munir, President Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condoled the death of the general who led the army from 1993 to 1996.
Mir Raza's father seeks fresh NCCIA nominee on JIT
Mir Hussain says the officer named to the joint investigation team has worked the case for two months and was pursuing a suicide narrative.
Security forces kill militant commander in Qila Saifullah operation
Sources say Adil Shah, alias Darvesh, handled the group's finances from 2024 and had 19 cases pending in anti-terrorism courts with a Rs2.5m bounty.
Pakistan, Saudi and Turkish officials head to Tehran for security talks
Field Marshal Asim Munir is expected to join Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin at the four-party meeting with Iran's security chief.
Six militants killed in DI Khan raid, two soldiers martyred
ISPR says the October 24 intelligence-based operation in Zarkani also yielded weapons and ammunition, and a sanitisation sweep is still under way in the area.
Seven of one family killed as van falls into Murree ravine
Rescue officials say the van was carrying 14 relatives home from a wedding when it left Baroha Link Road and caught fire; seven injured are in Rawalpindi.
Skardu man held over abuse videos of his own children
NCCIA says the videos were traded in secret Telegram groups paid in cryptocurrency, and that raids for other network members are continuing in Multan and southern Punjab.
Two rescue workers killed as gunmen attack ambulance in DI Khan
The ambulance was ferrying people wounded in an earlier blast that killed 11 people, according to ARY News; Minute Mirror reported 12 dead.