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To a majority of people who do not support Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), its supporters and leaders appear largely irrational. This perception is driven by a narrative that posits that the words and actions of PTI supporters and party members frequently work against the long-term interests of their own leader and party. Whereas this assessment is rational, one can also contend that what the supporters of PTI say and do is not entirely devoid of rationality. Instead, they are actua

The Ministry of Defence has set out the broad scope of £1.7 billion allocated to defence support and counter-CBRN in the Defence Investment Plan, while declining to detail the counter-chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear element on security grounds. UK keeps counter-CBRN spending detail under wraps first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Since Saturday evening, July 25, Russian troops have attacked three districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region nearly 20 times using artillery and drones.

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Russian forces have attacked Kharkiv with a Banderol drone-launched cruise missile, hitting a residential building and killing one person.

Israeli army orders removal of olive groves in Jenin Israeli military has issued two military orders to uproot vegetation and olive trees and seize Palestinian land in Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported. Palestinian security sources told WAFA last night that the first military order calls for the removal of vegetation and olive trees from 32.941 dunums (8.13 acres) of land belonging to the towns of Jaba' and Ajjah, south of Jenin. The second order provides for the seizu
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WHILE the killing of suspected criminals in alleged encounters is not a new phenomenon, it is rare in Karachi for arrested suspects to be brought to raids to arrest their accomplices and for them to end up dead “by firing from their own accomplices”. Thursday’s killing of three suspects, who were arrested recently for murdering a doctor during a robbery in Clifton, in a “shoot-out” between police and their alleged accomplices gives rise to the impression that Sindh police are now gradually movin

Iran said on Sunday it has halted retaliatory attacks against US allies in the Middle East after Washington stopped its strikes on the country for the past two nights. The Iranian declaration came after Washington paused a war nearing its fifth month and reports emerged that concerns over dwindling munitions were restraining plans for further escalation. "These attacks continued until two nights ago, but over the past two nights the Americans have stopped their attacks," said army spokesman Mo

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• In Hyderabad rally, Khalid Maqbool says his party has not rowed back on its demand for separate province to be carved out from Sindh • Existing administrative system has failed to address governance needs of growing population, Kamal tells press conference in Karachi HYDERABAD / KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) intensified its campaign for the creation of new provinces on Saturday, as party chairman Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui led a rally in Hyderabad, while senior leader Mus

Oklo, NuScale Power, BWX Technologies, Centrus Energy, and X-Energy are the five Nuclear stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. “Nuclear stocks” are shares of publicly traded companies involved in the nuclear-energy industry, including uranium mining, reactor design and construction, nuclear-fuel production, plant operation, and related services. Investors may view them as […]

Explosive ordnance disposal units from NATO allies and partner nations have been training together beneath the waters of Weymouth Bay during the second portion of Sea Breeze. Sea Breeze brings allied EOD divers to Portland waters first appeared on UK Defence Journal.

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Another night has passed without further US air strikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of nightly bombardments. US media reports that Washington's concerns over dwindling stockpiles of Patriot interceptors and other air defence munitions could be behind the pause in fighting.

CBS News: Iran-Oman talks on Hormuz make progress Talks between Iran and Oman regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and their respective territorial waterways in that area have seen progress, CBS News reported. Two regional sources, CBS reported, indicated that while things are headed in a positive direction, the diplomacy needs more time to reach a deal. Omani officials had travelled Friday to Tehran for talks, and that diplomatic outreach coincided with President Trump's decision to

One hundred days before the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump’s Republicans are staring down polling that points to the loss of the House of Representatives and a ferocious battle to retain the Senate. Trump will not appear on the ballot on November 3, but the stakes for his presidency could hardly be higher. A Democratic house would give the party control of powerful committees and subpoena authority, likely subjecting Trump’s administration to two years of investigations and...
Ukraine’s systematic strikes against Russia’s oil refining industry are already having a significant impact; however, restricting crude oil exports and curbing the activities of the shadow fleet remain crucial to Russia’s ability to finance the war.

Last night the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike using high-precision ground-and air-based weapons, hitting Ukrainian military-industrial facilities in Kiev involved in the production, assembly, and storage of unmanned aerial vehicles of various types and their component

PESHAWAR: Prof. Gul Rahim Khan has been awarded the prestigious Oriental Numismatic Society (ONS) Ashoka Prize 2025 in London for the best paper published in the journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society (JONS) during 2025. This distinguished international recognition celebrates his outstanding scholarly contribution through the research paper titled “Attribution of Coins to the Queens of the Utpala Dynasty of Medieval Kashmir (JONS 260).” Speaking to Dawn regarding the international recognitio

BAJAUR: Two people were killed in a remote-controlled bomb explosion near Tali small dam in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur tribal district on Saturday evening. According to police, unidentified persons had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) near the dam, falling in the limits of Salarzai police station. Local youth had gathered near the dam for refreshment when the IED exploded before sunset. Mansoor Khan, a spokesperson for district police, told Dawn that the victims were identified as Sul

India’s ambition to grow its navy past 200 ships within the next decade has taken on fresh urgency as China expands the world’s largest naval fleet and Pakistan adds advanced Chinese-built attack submarines, heightening New Delhi’s anxieties in the Indian Ocean. Analysts see this month’s commissioning of the stealth frigate INS Mahendragiri and submarine hunter INS Malvan this month as a symbol of that effort: both domestically built warships presented as evidence that New Delhi can scale up its

Documentary follows children under occupation and the couple who run a holistic primary school as Israel's war persists.
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The Pokrovsk, Sloviansk and Kostiantynivka fronts have seen the heaviest fighting, with 258 attacks over the past day.
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SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- A regional security forum has issued a statement call...

European holidaymakers worn down by recurrent heatwaves are currently snubbing Mediterranean destinations for northern climes in hopes of cooler temperatures, but it remains to be seen whether it is just a fad or a durable shift in the tourism market. With temperatures in the European summer regularly climbing up towards 40 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), cool has become cool. This year, visitors “have been telling me that they have escaped the heat in southern parts of Europe”, said..

Russian forces carried out 1,029 strikes on 50 settlements of Zaporizhzhia Oblast over the past 24 hours. One person was killed and 12 were injured in the attacks.

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The US military has released footage it says shows forces boarding one tanker.

• Small exporters, manufacturers hit as inflows through hundi, hawala shrink sharply • Crypto investments divert billions of dollars from local market KARACHI: The country’s unaccounted foreign exchange inflows through the hundi and hawala network have declined sharply as the prolonged Gulf war disrupted Dubai’s informal trading business, hurting small exporters and domestic manufacturers. Sources in the financial sector said that hundreds of flights every year carried people with goods not regi