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Around 20 people were injured, some severely, in an explosion on Monday as a group of Israeli high school students hiked near the Lebanese border, with unexploded ordnance suspected, officials said. The military said soldiers and helicopters had been dispatched to the scene in northern Israel, a reg...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said on Monday that the new setup in the province would “not compromise on police”, pledging enhanced support and pay raise for the law enforcers. He was addressing a press conference in Peshawar a day after the Centre imposed governor’s rule in KP. Ear...
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday directed jail authorities to allow lawyers representing human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to meet them in prison as the couple raised concerns over their access to their legal counsel and the fairness of proceedings...
National Assembly Opposition Leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Monday drew a comparison between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, criticising the government move to impose emergency and governor’s rule in the latter. The federal government on Sunday imposed a state of emergency in 12 districts of Kh...
Pakistan and Brazil on Monday agreed to bolster their military-to-military cooperation as a high-level delegation from the Latin American country called on Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir. According to a statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISP...
Saudi authorities said on Monday they were extending the suspension of operations at the international airport in the capital, Riyadh, after deadly weekend attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis. Operations at King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia’s second-busiest airport after Jeddah, we...
ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate on Monday handed over the main suspect to police on a five-day physical remand in a case related to the suicide of a young woman who was allegedly defrauded. The 20-year-old student, identified as Laiba Aijaz, allegedly died by suicide last week after a person defrau...
Thousands of protesters marched in New Delhi on Monday demanding the resignation of India’s election chief over alleged misconduct during a voter roll revision, in the latest showdown with authorities in the heavily fortified capital. The revision of voter rolls has resulted in more than 133 million...
The situation across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remains disrupted a day after emergency and governor’s rule were imposed, with road blockages, traffic restrictions and school closures reported in various areas. Here is what the situation looks like on the ground in several districts across the province, acc...
Several startups are betting that they can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to make better forecasts than even the most specialised experts when it comes to topics as varied as stock market movements, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, or how a Shakira song will perform on music charts. By ...
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday directed jail authorities to allow lawyers representing human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to meet them in prison as the couple raised concerns over their access to their legal counsel and the fairness of proceedings...
A United Nations global poverty index has risen for the first time since its creation in 2010, bringing the number of people affected to 1.2 billion, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported Monday. In the 2026 edition of their annual report, the UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human...
