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Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, the Indus delta and the country’s commercial capital.

SecuritySindh

Sindh home minister seeks report on Karachi DHA gunpoint harassment video

Ziaul Hassan Lanjar ordered police to identify the men in the footage and to establish when and where it was filmed; no arrests have been announced.

SecuritySindh

Dumper kills girl, 11, in Karachi; Tariq Road crash kills woman

Police impounded the truck in Bhains Colony after a crowd smashed its windscreen, and a pedestrian struck by an unidentified vehicle died in hospital.

PoliticsSindh

Bilawal says provinces issue must end, centre should focus on Karachi

Speaking at a revived eye hospital in Lyari, the PPP chairman said Sindh has given its verdict and that the federal government has not discussed the 28th amendment with him.

PoliticsSindh

National Assembly takes up Karachi load-shedding as Bilawal faults federal government

MQM-P's Aminul Haq called K-Electric a mafia over overbilling and night-time outages, and the deputy speaker sent the matter to the energy standing committee.

PoliticsSindh

Bilawal says Sindh Assembly has closed new provinces debate

PPP chairman tells reporters in Karachi's Lyari that Sindh's people and their elected representatives have already given their decision on the question.

EconomySindh

Karachi smartphone prices jump by up to Rs 30,000

Dealers blame rising memory-chip costs driven by artificial intelligence demand rather than taxes, as basic handsets double in price for low-income buyers.

EconomySindh

K-Electric eases load-shedding in Korangi, SITE and other Karachi areas

The utility's quarterly review moves several neighbourhoods from the medium-loss to the low-loss category and others out of the high-loss bracket.

SecuritySindh

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.

EducationSindh

Karachi board declares first-year results under new grading system

Candidates must score at least 40 per cent in every paper, and anyone below that is marked "ungraded" in that subject, the board says

PoliticsSindh

Karachi police briefly detain more than 10 JI local representatives

Jamaat-e-Islami's Karachi chief says union committee chairmen and councillors were summoned to police stations and held without reason; police have not commented.

PoliticsSindh

Sindh to mark Kashmir Black Day with rallies across province

The News reported the observance without naming venues, organisers or timings, while APHC-AJK called 27 October Kashmir's darkest day.

SecuritySindh

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.

EconomySindh

Energas quits Port Qasim LNG terminal, seeks $2m fee refund

Port Qasim Authority says the concession fee is non-refundable and has given the consortium until November 30, 2026 to unconditionally accept its final letter of intent.

EconomySindh

Customs suspends auction of stranded Afghan containers at Karachi port

Director General Transit Trade Irfan Javed says the sale was halted at the Pak-Afghan chamber's request, days after goods from hundreds of containers were shown to buyers.

EconomySindh

Gul Ahmed approves 43.75-acre Nooriabad land purchase and 13.5MW energy projects

The listed textile maker told the Pakistan Stock Exchange its board cleared five plots in Jamshoro district on October 24, along with wind, solar and battery storage.

EconomySindh

MQM-P warns of street protests as power cuts drag on

The Express Tribune reports the party's threat without a date or venue, while a separate agency report says an explosion in Nushki cut power to parts of Sindh and Punjab.

SecuritySindh

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.

SecuritySindh

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.

EconomySindh

K-Electric extends Karachi loadshedding as power crisis deepens

The three outlets reporting the extension carried no schedule, no duration and no statement from the utility, leaving the scope of the new outages unconfirmed.

EconomySindh

Water shortfall shadows Sindh Rabi sowing as farmers turn to oilseeds

Irsa has forecast a 22 percent irrigation shortfall for the season, while Pakistan's palm oil import bill reached a record $3.78 billion in FY26.

HealthSindh

Newborn dies of mpox in Sindh as Pakistan toll reaches 12

The Express Tribune reports the infant is the latest child killed by the virus this year, while a Korean outlet links the infection to contaminated scissors used by unlicensed staff

SportsSindh

Wapda win national athletics title as Maria Bibi sets 5,000m record

Maria clocked 19:02.00 on the final day at NED University to erase Rabia Ashiq's 2012 mark of 19:04.05, as Wapda took 27 golds.

SecuritySindh

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.

EducationSindh

MIT physicist Mavalvala delivers Habib University Yohsin Lecture

The Pakistani-American astrophysicist and dean of MIT's School of Science spoke on curiosity, discovery, and the role universities play in both.

SecuritySindh

ATC acquits seven remaining accused in Naqeebullah murder case

The ruling means all 25 people nominated in the 2018 police killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud have now been acquitted, the prosecution said.

PoliticsSindh

UN rights forum sees protest over alleged Sindh abuses

ANI News and Asianet News reported events in Geneva focused on human rights concerns in the Pakistani province.

DevelopmentSindh

Sindh to distribute free pink scooties to women in Mirpurkhas

The Sindh government will hand out the scooters to female students and working women on Saturday as part of a mobility scheme run by the transport department.

SecuritySindh

Karachi court indicts Anmol Pinky and Sameer in drug case

Both accused pleaded not guilty and the sessions judge summoned prosecution witnesses for the next hearing.

SecuritySindh

Commission grills police officer over Mir Raza investigation flaws

Sindh High Court commission questions SSP Samiullah Soomro on delays in family statements, CCTV footage and crime scene evidence.

SecuritySindh

Hyderabad transformer explosion injures three, damages vehicles

Burning oil from the HESCO transformer spread to a nearby dhaba and five vehicles, rescue officials said after a two-hour firefighting operation.