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The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could hold a three-way meeting on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China and that a potential meeting had come up in talks. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov comment...
Senior Sindh Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Monday asserted that the PPP was the “last party” in favour of governor’s rule and emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying that it had emphasised dialogue as the first course of action. The Centre imposed governor’s rule and emergency in KP on Oct 11, cit...
Farm workers in Balochistan often work more than the stipulated eight hour daily, while often earning less than the minimum wage. Some even work for food | Photo by Zaheer Baloch Mian Dad has spent much of his life ploughing fields on a tractor. He started as a young boy, helping drive a tractor tha...
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday highlighted Pakistan’s mediation efforts between the United States and Iran, affirming that Islamabad “never gave up”. He made the remarks while addressing the 8th Global Security Forum being held in Qatar’s capital Doha. Convened under the title “The Future ...
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu called for localised curfews on Monday, as protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and authorities scrambled to stem public discontent that over the weekend saw mass cost-of-living demonstrations spill over into some of the worst street violence...
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by the provincial government through the prosecutor general against the acquittal of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leader Mahrang Baloch in a sedition case, declaring it non-maintainable. Mahrang had been booked on terrorism and sediti...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he would give every child in the United States a share in his SpaceX rocket company. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk, the richest man in the world, said on X. “This will be the first of many,” he said, with...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe on Monday to lead Pakistan’s delegation at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. Upon arrival, he was received by Tajikistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Resources Daler Juma, Pakistan’s Amba...
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins”—John Locke A few years after my resignation from the Income Tax Service, I happened to visit the offices in Lahore as a representative of a corporate client. A female officer made a remark that left me somewhat bewildered. According to her, laws were binding on ta...
KARACHI: A kidnapping and torture case has been registered against Railway Police officials on the complaint of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) City Wardens Director Saim Imran, who has accused them of abducting him and taking him to an undisclosed location, where he was allegedly tortured. T...
French police “lost control” during nationwide protests marred by violence over the weekend, the interior minister admitted Monday, with President Emmanuel Macron calling for a security review. Macron also refused Interior Minister Laurent Nunez’s resignation even as he acknowledged security and int...
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said Pakistan is providing “whatever support is needed” to defend Saudi Arabia amid attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against the kingdom. The military spokesperson’s remarks — made during an intervie...
