Heavy Rain Expected Across Pakistan Next Week — Here’s Where It Hits and What to Prepare For
A new weather system is heading toward Pakistan, and the Pakistan Meteorological Department isn’t treating it as routine. PMD Deputy Director Irfan Virk confirmed on Thursday, July 16, 2026, that the incoming system is expected to reach Pakistan by the end of this week, bringing widespread and at times heavy rainfall to much of the […]
Punjab’s New Pink Salt Loan Scheme: A Real Shot at Turning a Raw Mineral Into a Branded Export
For decades, Pakistan has watched something strange happen to its own salt. Blocks of pink Himalayan salt leave the Salt Range as raw material, priced like a commodity. Somewhere across the border or overseas, that same salt gets crushed, polished, packaged in a lamp or a spa product, and resold at a markup that has […]
An Unexploded Missile-Like Object Was Dug Up in Islamabad’s I-9 Sector. Here Is What Happened Next.
Workers excavating a plot near the residential fringe of Islamabad’s predominantly industrial I-9 zone unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded ordnance on Wednesday. The Bomb Disposal Squad arrived, cordoned the area, rendered it safe — and the questions began. Construction sites turn up unexpected things. Pipes. Old cables. Unmarked foundations. The occasional buried artefact […]
Gold Loses Nearly Rs. 6,000 in Pakistan as International Prices Fall to Lowest Level Since March
The slide that began in late June is accelerating. Gold lost Rs. 5,600 per tola in Pakistan’s local bullion market on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 — the steepest single-session drop in several weeks — pushing the price below the Rs. 425,000 mark for the first time since the war-era spike began unwinding. According to the […]
A Pakistani Bug Hunter Just Got a Thank-You Letter From NASA. Here’s Why That Matters More Than It Sounds
Most people’s mental image of “hacking NASA” comes from a movie. Alarms. Countdown clocks. Someone in a hoodie typing furiously while a room full of officials panics. The real version looks nothing like that. It looks like a cybersecurity engineer in Pakistan filing a routine vulnerability report through a web form, then waiting weeks for […]
Pakistan’s New Auto Policy Is Stalled, Not Dead — And an Old One Is Filling the Gap
The clock ran out on June 30, and nothing was ready to replace it. Pakistan’s Auto Policy 2026-31 was supposed to reset a protection-heavy industry that hasn’t produced a globally competitive car in decades. Instead, government sources confirm the old policy is being extended in the interim, after talks with the IMF over sales tax […]
Pakistan Has a Battery Problem Nobody Is Talking About — And It’s Not the Cars
Everyone in Pakistan’s energy conversation is fixated on getting more electric vehicles on the road. Cheaper imports, new manufacturing licenses, tax breaks on e-bikes and rickshaws. Almost nobody is asking the harder question: what happens when those batteries die? That gap is about to matter a lot more than most policymakers realize. The Recycling Vacuum […]
Petrol Crosses Rs. 310, Diesel Rs. 323 — One Week After Prices Were Cut, Pakistan’s Fuel Bills Just Rose Again
Effective midnight July 11, petrol costs Rs. 310.71 per litre and high-speed diesel Rs. 323.30. The increase of over Rs. 13 per litre on both fuels erases last week’s relief entirely — and then some. The reason sits 1,500 kilometres away in the Strait of Hormuz. One week ago, Pakistanis received a small but genuine […]
K2 Airways Flight KTA1732: Wreckage Found 53 Nautical Miles South of Ormara — Five Crew Members Still Missing
After twelve hours of deep-sea search operations, Pakistan Navy and PMSA forces have located the debris field of the missing Boeing 737 in the Arabian Sea. The five men aboard have not been found. This is everything confirmed as of July 9, 2026. The search is no longer about finding an aircraft. It is now […]
K2 Airways Flight KTA1732: What the Final Three Minutes of Data Tell Us About Pakistan’s Missing Cargo Plane
A Boeing 737 plunged at 22,400 feet per minute into the Arabian Sea after a violent aerodynamic sequence that lasted less than three minutes. Five crew members are missing. Here is what verified data and official records now confirm. At exactly 9:18 PM Pakistan Standard Time (PST) on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, a K2 Airways […]