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A cloth-loaded cargo trailer caught fire on the Indus Highway in Dera Ismail Khan, forcing a complete road closure and causing long vehicle queues. Rescue teams reached the site, while officials said no casualties had been reported so far.
Three civilians, including two women, were injured after Afghan forces allegedly fired at a civilian area in South Waziristan. Pakistani security forces responded by destroying the firing positions involved, while officials linked the incident to failed militant infiltration attempts.
Three suspected robbers were killed in two alleged police encounters in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area. Police claimed weapons, a phone and a motorcycle were recovered, while one suspect escaped during the second incident.
A Karachi court has ordered the release of five women, including BYC activist Fozia Baloch, who were arrested after protesting over an alleged enforced disappearance. The case has renewed debate over protest rights, Section 144 restrictions and missing-person complaints.
A funeral across the Line of Control has gone viral after relatives in AJK were forced to watch a loved one’s burial from across the Neelum River. The incident has reignited debate over the humanitarian cost of divided Kashmiri families.
A robbery attempt in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Hadeed went viral after residents resisted two suspected motorcyclists by throwing stones. Police collected evidence after the video surfaced, while the AIG directed SSP Malir to submit a detailed report.
Three people, including a traffic police inspector, were killed and 20 others injured when a passenger coach hit a police van near Kala Shah Kaku. Rescue teams shifted the injured to Lahore hospitals as authorities began assessing the cause of the crash.
Pakistan lifted traffic restrictions around Islamabad’s Red Zone and Serena Hotel after days of security controls linked to expected US-Iran talks. Public transport partially resumed, though some Rawalpindi areas near Nur Khan Airbase remained affected.
Islamabad and Rawalpindi lifted a grinding week-long transport lockdown on Sunday as district administrations reopened bus terminals, hiking trails, and parks — just as Iranian FM Araghchi returned to Islamabad on Sunday night for a second visit in 48 hours after consulting Oman's Sultan, with Pakistani officials confirming that US-Iran ceasefire mediation efforts remain firmly on track despite the collapse of Saturday's planned second-round talks.
Work has resumed on Karachi’s BRT Red Line along University Road after the Sindh government terminated the earlier contract and brought FWO back to the site. Officials say a 90-day deadline has been set for key corridor work, but the project’s long history of delays means public confidence remains fragile.
Rescuers in Karachi recovered the body of 12-year-old Zahid Mohammed Khan after a two-day search operation following his disappearance in a major water line in Scheme 33. The incident has renewed concern over the safety of exposed urban infrastructure and the risks it poses to children.
A twelve-day rolling shutdown of approximately 45 transport terminals across Rawalpindi and Islamabad, imposed for security reasons tied to the second round of US-Iran peace talks, has left an estimated 20,000 transport workers without income and forced 2,632 bus hostesses — many evicted from company-provided hostels — to return to their hometowns unpaid. Most restrictions were lifted on Saturday night after the talks collapsed, with metro and bus services resuming Sunday, but the human and economic toll on Pakistan's most vulnerable daily-wage workers has sparked widespread public outrage.
