A Voice of the Unheard Saturday, October 10, 2026
ISLAMABAD: A run of barbed Emirati commentary about Pakistan’s place in the Makkah defence alliance has exposed a rivalry inside the Gulf that Islamabad did not create and has so far declined to join. The sharpest came from Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent Emirati academic and former aide to President Mohammed bin Zayed. In a post...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday told Yemen’s Houthis to “immediately cease” their attacks on Saudi Arabia, after strikes on the airports of Riyadh and Abha killed six people in three days and left a Pakistani among the injured. In a post on X, the prime minister condemned what he called repeated terrorist attacks...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ministry of Information on Thursday dismissed as “fake and fabricated” a New York Times report that Pakistan Air Force jets are being used against Yemen’s Houthis, a story that rests on an unnamed official and sits at odds with everything Islamabad has said on the record. The rebuttal came through the ministry’s fact-check...
LAHORE: With prices rising faster than wages, more young Pakistanis are looking at online earning and freelancing as a way to make a living. A free seminar in Lahore, organised by the Muslim Youth League (MYL) with Apna Kamao, drew a large number of them. The event was built around practical sessions on how to...
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The government and the opposition reported a major breakthrough in their talks on Saturday, raising the prospect that the PTI’s long march on Islamabad, due to begin on Sunday, could be called off. Both delegations agreed in principle on the points under discussion and began preparing a written draft, correspondents reported from Parliament House....
LAHORE: Delivery and ride-hailing riders working for Foodpanda, Yango and inDrive are preparing to protest against what they say are unfair company practices and taxes. They plan to keep working while they do it. In a video message, Akbar Butt Aam Aadmi said the riders would hold a peaceful march towards Islamabad until their demands...
LAHORE: For two days, almost no one outside Saudi Arabia knew that a drone had struck the power station supplying electricity to Al-Masjid-e-Nabawi, the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. The drone hit the Taibah electricity distribution station at 5:11 am on Tuesday, September 29, shortly before Fajr prayers, while worshippers would have been making their way...
Pakistan’s passport has fallen to 183rd place in the 2026 global ranking published by Passport Reports, down from 174th in 2025. The Pakistan Passport Ranking records a Mobility Score slipped from 44 to 42. Only Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan rank lower. The Mobility Score counts the destinations Pakistani passport holders can enter without a visa...
LAHORE: A 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman was drugged and gang-raped by three men in Lahore’s Defence area on Friday night (September 25), police said. The victim, Diana, a resident of Baku, had been in Lahore for 15 to 20 days on business and was staying at a house on Raiwind Road, an area known for its...
United Nations, New York: While India’s Minister of External Affairs, Dr. S. Jaishankar, addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 26, a peaceful demonstration was held outside United Nations Headquarters to draw international attention to the unresolved question of Jammu and Kashmir and to urge the United...