LPG Prices Rise Sharply Across Pakistan — And the Official Rate Is Barely Worth the Paper It’s Printed On
Walk into an LPG retailer in most Pakistani cities this week and ask for the official rate. You’ll likely get a shrug, or a price that has nothing to do with what OGRA has notified. The gap has become the story. As of this week, consumers report paying anywhere from Rs370 to Rs410 per kilogram […]
More Monsoon Rain Predicted Across Pakistan — And the Death Toll Is Already at 53
Landi Kotal’s roads turned into rivers this week. Trucks waded through floodwater instead of driving over it. That image, from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 20, is what “monsoon alert” actually looks like on the ground — not a forecast graphic, but a truck half-submerged on a highway. By Tuesday, the numbers had caught up with […]
Pakistan Launches Its First Comprehensive Labour Migration Policy in Years — Here’s What It Actually Covers
Twelve million Pakistanis are living and working abroad. Until today, the legal and institutional framework governing how they got there, how they’re protected once they arrive, and what happens when they come home was fragmented across different ministries, agencies, and pieces of legislation that didn’t speak to each other in any coherent way. That changes […]
Petrol Pump Owners Suspend Nationwide Strike After Government Promises Two-Week Trial and Margin Review
The pumps stayed open. The fuel kept flowing. And Pakistan avoided what could have been a serious nationwide supply disruption — at least for the next two weeks. The All Pakistan Petrol Pumps Owners Association suspended its planned nationwide shutdown on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, following a fresh round of negotiations with Petroleum Minister Ali […]
Pakistan Raises Fuel Prices for Third Time Running — And Petrol Pumps May Shut Down at Midnight
If you needed to fill your tank on Tuesday, you had a narrow window. By midnight, it got more expensive. And by tomorrow morning, it might not be available at all. OGRA announced the third consecutive fuel price increase in as many working days on Tuesday night, July 21, 2026, with the revised rates taking […]
Nawaz Sharif Wants to Become Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir — Here’s What’s Really Going On
Muzaffarabad hasn’t seen a political entrance quite like this in years. On July 21, Nawaz Sharif walked onto a rally stage in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capital and said out loud what insiders had been whispering for weeks: he wants the job of AJK Prime Minister for himself. Not as a ceremonial gesture. […]
Pakistan Fuel Standoff: Petrol Pumps to Shut Down Nationwide as Talks Fail
Three days after the government proudly launched its new daily fuel pricing mechanism, the people who actually sell that fuel to the public just walked away from the table. The All Pakistan Petroleum Pump Owners Association (APPPOA) announced Tuesday night that petrol pumps nationwide will shut down indefinitely starting midnight Wednesday, after talks with the […]
Did PTA Just Ban TikTok Live in Pakistan?
Short answer: no, not officially. But the fact that so many people believe it happened is a story in itself. Over the past two days, a claim has spread rapidly across Pakistani social media: that the government is preparing to ban TikTok Live and its monetization features, and may even direct local banks to stop […]
Petrol Price Reduced, Diesel Increased for Next 24 Hours
Monday night gave Pakistan its first real test of a pricing system the government only announced three days earlier. Petrol dropped. Diesel jumped. And for the first time, both moves reflect a single day’s worth of international oil movement, not two weeks of it. What Actually Changed According to an official Oil and Gas Regulatory […]
Pakistan Is Running Out of Time to Find the K2 Airways Black Box — And Knows It
Thirteen days. That’s how long it’s been since a K2 Airways cargo jet disappeared from radar near Ormara and crashed into the Arabian Sea on July 7. The tail section has been found. A bag belonging to one of the crew has been recovered. The crew themselves, the fuselage, the engines, and the two flight […]