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A terrorist attack on a police station in Hasan Khel tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar district was repelled early Saturday morning, with two terrorists killed in retaliatory fire, police officials confirmed. According to Express News, heavily armed terrorists launched an attack on the police station using heavy weaponry. A fierce gun battle ensued between the attackers and law enforcement personnel. Senior police officers described the situation as dangerous due to the use of heavy weapons by the attackers. ALERT: In the suburban area of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani Taliban affiliates launched an attack on the Hasan Khel Police Station…

Clashes erupted along the Pak-Afghan border after Afghan forces opened unprovoked fire at multiple locations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, prompting a swift and forceful response from the Pakistan Army, which destroyed several Afghan posts and killed dozens of Afghan soldiers and militants, security sources said on Saturday. According to officials, the coordinated assault originated from across several key sectors, including Angoor Adda, Bajaur, Kurram, Dir, Chitral in K-P, and Baramcha in Balochistan. The firing, the officials claimed, was aimed at facilitating the illegal entry of Khawarij — the state-designated term for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — into Pakistani territory.…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement about lowering U.S. drug prices, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Saturday said his administration has “identified funds” to pay troops next week despite the federal government shutdown.Trump said in a post on Truth Social: “I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.”The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether all or some…

BlackRock is seeing a shift among Big Tech investors.Jay Jacobs, the firm’s U.S. head of equity ETFs, finds they’re going for targeted themes like artificial intelligence.”One of the biggest trades we’re seeing this year is simply people leaving the traditional tech sector and getting more granular into AI-specific ETFs, like BAI [the iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF] from BlackRock,” Jacobs told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week.The fund gives investors exposure from semiconductor manufacturers to large language models in the AI ecosystem, according to Jacobs. BlackRock’s iShares website listed Nvidia, Broadcom, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft as BAI’s top holdings as…

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday reiterated its call on Afghanistan to ensure that its soil is not used for terrorist activities against Pakistan, as Islamabad reacted cautiously to Afghan Interim Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India. Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan, during his weekly news briefing, said Pakistan respects Afghanistan’s sovereign right to pursue relations with any country. However, he underlined that Pakistan’s consistent position has been that Afghan territory should not be allowed to be used against Pakistan. “Afghanistan is a sovereign, independent country, and we do not have any particular comment to offer on…

PESHAWAR: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Friday criticised the past politicisation of counterterrorism operations and the repatriation of Afghan refugees, saying it had created space for anti-state elements to regroup in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and fuelled a resurgence of attacks in the province. Speaking at a press conference at Corps Headquarters in Peshawar, Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, he said Pakistan’s National Action Plan (NAP), first formulated after the 2014 APS attack and revised in 2021, has not been fully implemented beyond kinetic operations. “No solid efforts were made to strengthen the legal system, madrasa reforms,…

Special forces members stand in formation at a port in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. A new fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy set sail from a military port in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, on Saturday to take over an escort mission from the previous fleet in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia. This 48th navy fleet comprises a missile destroyer, a missile frigate and a supply vessel — with two helicopters and dozens of special forces members on board. (Photo by Liu Zaiyao/Xinhua)QINGDAO, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) — A new fleet of…

ISLAMABAD: The federal government booked $321 billion in imports during the past five years, $30 billion more than import payments cleared by the central bank through banking channels in the same period, underscoring the urgent need to reconcile the huge discrepancy. According to official records, Pakistan Single Window (PSW) booked imports worth $321 billion, while the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) cleared $291 billion through banks from July 2020 to June 2025. The PSW’s figures have not been reported earlier, as the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) had been issuing monthly trade bulletins based on data from the Pakistan Revenue…

Former U.S. President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden pose for a selfie photo, in this handout social media picture released May 19, 2025. Joe Biden Via X | Joe Biden Via ReutersFormer President Joe Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy as part of a new phase of treating the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving office, a spokesperson said Saturday.”As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,” said Biden aide Kelly Scully.The 82-year-old Democrat left office in January after he…

Workers labor at a construction site of an urban village renovation project in Nanning City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) — During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), China has made solid progress in meeting people’s housing demands, fostering a new development model for the real estate sector, and driving steady growth in the construction industry.Since 2021, more than 11 million units of affordable and resettlement housing, including those for the redevelopment of “urban villages” and dilapidated residential areas, have been constructed across the country, benefiting over 30 million residents, according…