- Conversation comes as Pakistan has tightened Afghan border amid worsening bilateral ties
- Visiting UN official says talks also covered Middle East diplomacy and disaster preparedness
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- Saudi client commissioned portraits of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, among the artist’s most technically demanding works
- Health minister says Chinese, Pakistani firms have been in talks for weeks before event
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- General Authority for Awqaf presents 1,400-year-old Islamic endowment model as a tool for closing the UN Sustainable Development Goals funding gap
- Tufeeq Alghamdi says reforms, transparency and international partnerships are transforming awqaf into a scalable development financing mechanism
- These are the first reported blasts near the consulate in Irbil since a fragile ceasefire began in April
- No group has claimed responsibility for any attacks
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Islamabad Memorandum
- Tehran says mediators, including Oman, remain in contact as US-Iran strikes intensify across Gulf
- Pakistan and Qatar helped broker Islamabad MoU before follow-up negotiations in Switzerland and Doha
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It’s a name given by social media fans to Joshua Harris, a 12-year-old autistic and non-verbal Briton, who has been visiting UK mosques and distributing cakes to promote solidarity amid an increase in far-right support in the country. On a recent trip to Madinah with his father, “The Joshie-Man” turned his ‘Cake not hate’ campaign to ‘Dates not hate’ by handing out the holy city’s famous ajwa and ambar dates people in the courtyard of the Prophet’s Mosque.
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Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict
- Pakistan says it intercepted four drones launched from Afghanistan into Balochistan province
- Relations have sharply deteriorated amid cross-border strikes, militant attacks, border tensions
