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LAHORE: The Punjab Defamation Tribunal on Tuesday ruled in favour of Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari in a defamation suit against Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Moeen Riaz Qureshi, ordering him to pay Rs3 million in general damages. In January, Bokhari filed the defamation suit against Q...
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Tuesday decided to make the report prepared by a judicial commission formed to investigate the circumstances and possible negligence in businessman Mir Raza Ali’s murder investigation public. According to a handout issued by the Sindh chief minister’s spokesperson, the ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday encouraged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to use national currencies for “mutual settlement” and establish other financial mechanisms to “offset international financial shocks”. He made the remarks while addressi...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Tuesday, his second official visit to the country this year, as he pursues an Asian tour blending diplomacy and trade. Rubio visited Uzbekistan, where he called for stronger partnerships with Central Asian countries, before landing in Mumbai for ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday was welcomed, along with other delegates, in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe by Tajik PM Qohir Rasulzoda for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting. The CHG is the SCO’s second-highest dec...
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said the federal government was ready to invite all political parties and build consensus on counterterrorism. Speaking in the Senate, the PML-N leader also urged the opposition to “set other demands aside”. “Even now, if a...
ISLAMABAD: The health ministry has again gotten a new secretary, with the Establishment Division notifying Momin Agha as the new administrative head. Agha, a BS-22 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), is the ninth secretary to be appointed during the tenure of Health Minister Mustaf...
England captain Harry Brook won the toss and opted to field first ahead of the One-day International tri-series opener at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Pakistan enter the fixture at the back of a 37-run over Sri Lanka in the opening match of the tri-series and would be looking to streng...
The tractors rolling into the town of Gela on the southern tip of Europe are flying the Sicilian flag, emblazoned with Medusa, three bent legs and ears of wheat, a reminder of the island’s role as a breadbasket since Roman times. But the farmers are not bringing in a harvest. They are protesting. As...
France will impose new curfews in areas where needed on Tuesday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said, adding that the measures introduced in several cities the previous day had “helped keep the night calm”. France was rocked on Saturday by some of its worst rioting in recent years, just six months...
Alberta residents voted to remain part of Canada in the province’s first-ever referendum on separation, in a much-needed win for Prime Minister Mark Carney as he attempts to unify the country amid a trade war with the US. CBC News, Canada’s government-funded national broadcaster, called the result l...
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the federal and provincial governments in several petitions challenging the imposition of emergency and governor rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A two-member bench, consisting of Justices Ijaz Anwar and Muhammad Faheem Wali, adjourned ...
