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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Abid Hussain

    Can Pakistan’s Sohail Afridi win freedom for ex-PM Imran Khan? (opens the original)

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    Islamabad, Pakistan – On Wednesday, Sohail Afridi, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, sat at the head of a long table in Peshawar, hands clasped in front of him, and opened the 59th meeting of his cabinet. Dressed in black, he leaned forward as he spoke. When he reached the sharpest lines of his address, his voice dropped and slowed rather than rose. For the past several days, he told his ministers, “plainclothes thugs” had been targeting his workers, officials and elected repres

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Abid Hussain

    Pakistan, Turkiye edge closer towards joining Saudi war against Houthis (opens the original)

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    Islamabad, Pakistan — Turkiye and Pakistan are rushing their military chiefs to Riyadh in response to a call from Saudi Arabia for an urgent meeting on implementing their mutual defence agreement, amid the escalating war against the Houthis in Yemen that has spilled over into Saudi territory. Turkiye’s Defence Ministry confirmed on Friday that General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu, the chief of general staff, will be travelling to Saudi Arabia. Pakistan’s chief of defence forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Abid Hussain

    ‘Source of anxiety’: Pakistan cracks down before march to free Imran Khan (opens the original)

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    Islamabad, Pakistan — The motorway linking Pakistan’s capital with Peshawar, about 180km (110 miles) to the northwest, has been closed to all traffic until further notice, according to a police notification. So have the highway towards Dera Ismail Khan, the Hazara motorway and the Grand Trunk Road at Attock. Each carries traffic between Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province governed by the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose supporters plan to march on the capital on

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Abid Hussain

    Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes for president amid unrest (opens the original)

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    Islamabad, Pakistan – Legislators in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are voting on Thursday to elect a president, filling the region’s last vacant constitutional office nearly eight months after the post fell vacant, well beyond the deadline set by its constitution. Najeeb Naqi Khan, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate, is expected to win. The party and its allies hold 32 of the 46 occupied seats in the 53-member Legislative Assembly, five more than the 27 votes required. The

  5. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Abid Hussain

    Pakistan’s latest Trump bet is on drone firm already selling to India (opens the original)

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    Islamabad, Pakistan – On September 16, a delegation from Powerus, a year-old United States drone company backed by two sons of President Donald Trump, was received by Pakistan’s military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, at military headquarters in Rawalpindi. A day later, the company announced it had received a “limited procurement order” from Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence for unmanned aerial systems. It also said it had signed a separate memorandum of understanding (MoU) with senior Pakistani

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