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Security forces have responded to unprovoked firing by Afghan Taliban forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Kurram sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, state broadcaster PTV News reported on Saturday. PTV News and state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), which cited security sources, sai...
Pope Leo XIV left the hospital to enthusiastic cheers and applause from well-wishers and returned home to the Vatican on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery for lung cancer. The 71-year-old pope was seen crossing the lobby of the Gemelli Hospital on foot and exiting the building, smiling as...
India’s Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention on Saturday, a day after he was detained during a police crackdown on protests against the election authority. Dipke, 31, was detained on Friday in New Delhi as he headed to join a rally that the CJP protest move...
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday clarified that his party’s remarks regarding the country’s security situation were directed at policies, not institutions, and termed the allegations levelled against him by federal ministers as character assassination. A day ...
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday rejected the police’s request for 30-day physical remand of PTI leader and former Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister Khalid Khurshid and sent him to jail on judicial remand in connection with a case registered over the November 26 protest. Judge Abul...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that Tehran supports a “political process” to resolve the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Houthis have repeatedly attacked Saudi targets, including energy facilities and Riyadh’s international airport, where 13 peo...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reiterated that the Centre was “compelled” to impose emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to the provincial government’s lack of cooperation in countering terrorism. The Centre imposed emergency and governor’s rule in KP on Oct 11, citing ...
Shaheen Shah Afridi has been one of the casualties of Pakistan cricket’s brutal game of captaincy musical chairs. But at a stage in his career when he has much to prove, the left-arm pace spearhead has the One-day International (ODI) captaincy firmly in his grasp, with the 2027 World Cup looming on ...
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday summoned the Islamabad police chief and issued show-cause notices to two police officials over the continued failure to produce the case record in the security breach case against lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her spouse, Hadi Ali Chattha. ...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reiterated that the Centre was “compelled” to impose emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to the provincial government’s lack of cooperation in countering terrorism. The Centre imposed emergency and governor’s rule in KP on Oct 11, citing ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that he would not seek to remain in office when his current term expires in 2030, describing the matter as “completely settled”. Sisi, 71, a former army general who became president in 2014, made the remarks at a graduation ceremony at the Egy...
Pope Leo XIV will leave the Rome hospital where he has been recovering from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said on Saturday, after doctors deemed him “fit for discharge”. Leo, 71, has been at the Gemelli hospital north of the Vatican since Tuesday, where doctors removed part of his right lung to e...
