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Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Saturday told AFP that Pakistan had so far withstood the shock from skyrocketing energy prices due to the US-Israeli war on Iran, but that attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were “worrying” for the country’s longer-term economic ...
Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC) Lieutenant General Aamer Raza warned the country’s adversaries on Saturday that “any miscalculation will be met with a response far beyond the imagination or the calculation of the initiator”. “To those who harbour hostile designs across our borders, our s...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia’s energy revenues, marking a new low in Washington’s ties with war-torn Ukraine. The move came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged EU leaders to keep financing Kyiv’s...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday extended a stay against expulsion and deportation of Afghan medical students and granted the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) more time to submit its reply. Justice Khalid Ishaq heard the petitions filed by over 30 Afghan students, including Syed Mub...
IN times like this, we need people who tell hard truths while insisting that the present state of our politics is not permanent. On the one hand, White House aide Stephen Miller says that “we live in a world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power”, and on ...
ON any given day, newspaper headlines across Pakistan are littered with updates on court cases. These usually fall into two categories. The first are updates on cases involving political leaders in prison: so and so is brought out for a hearing, so and so has a case stayed. The second category compr...
THE opposition Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayin-i-Pakistan has announced that there will be no more talks with the government till the latter yields on the one thing it has resolutely sought to prevent: a meeting with jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. Having handed authority for further negotiation to ...
BRUSSELS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a knowing smile and stayed mum on Friday when asked if the US president was scapegoating him for troubles in the US. “This is my answer,” Zelensky said, as journalists broke into laughter at a press conference in Brussels after he met EU leader...
QUETTA: Condemning a recent terrorist attack in Dasht Goran, Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti said on Friday that the government had always maintained that such acts have nothing to do with Baloch values, rather were purely terrorism. He was responding to points raised by lawmakers on va...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has taken exception to a prevalent practice in criminal trials which, it said, defied normal human capability and natural perception, and observed that eyewitness accounts should reflect genuine human observation rather than physically impossible details concerning firea...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the 10 countries bearing the brunt of the global hunger crisis, with climate-related disasters, economic hardship, displacement and shrinking humanitarian funding pushing vulnerable communities deeper into food insecurity, according to a new report released by internatio...
NEW DELHI: Climate change is threatening livelihoods and forcing people from their homes across South Asia, but technology and government action could help limit the damage, the UN migration chief said on Friday. Rising seas, flooding and drought threaten homes and farmland, Amy Pope, director gener...
