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LAHORE: A judicial magistrate extended on Friday the physical remand of two prime suspects by four days in an Azeri woman’s gang-rape case. The two prime suspects, arrested of the three accused in the case, were produced before Judicial Magistrate Azhar Mahmood at the Cantonment Courts following the...
Former UN rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay — awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday — is a global rights defender who has also served on the International Criminal Court and was South Africa’s first non-white woman high court judge. The 85-year-old built a formidable reputation during a decade...
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation rose to 11.97 per cent year-on-year in the week ending Oct 8, driven largely by higher food prices, particularly wheat flour, according to official data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday. The Sensitive Price Index (SPI), which tracks short-...
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Adviser to the Prime Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday were made members of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP). Two seats in the JCP were vacant after the recent resignations of PPP stalwart Senator Farooq H. Naek and PML-N member Aftab Sheik...
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pillay held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral compass i...
A previously unstudied, ancient structure measuring nearly 100 metres long and 50 metres wide has been discovered at Jandial in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khanpur-Taxila region. The discovery has opened “new avenues for understanding the history and urban landscape of Gandhara”, a press release said on Fr...
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said Pakistan is acting as an “honest broker” while mediating between the United States and Iran, reiterating the commitment to a “negotiated and peaceful” outcome. The military’s spokesperson made t...
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states and international organisations, on Friday commended Pakistan’s “constructive role in promoting regional peace and stability through mediation, dialogue and diplomacy”, the Foreign Office (FO) said. The archbishop ...
Malaysia closed schools in Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country on Friday, as haze from fires in neighbouring Indonesia again plunged local air quality to among the world’s worst. Toxic smoke from peatland as well as forest fires has shrouded towns and cities in the region for more than a mon...
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pillay held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral compass i...
India’s verification exercise of its nearly one billion voters has sparked protests across the country, with opposition parties alleging that the removal of 130 million names from electoral rolls has unfairly benefited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Opposition parties and the youth-led Cockro...
Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said on Friday that three Saudi nationals were killed and several people were injured in two attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday. In a statement on X, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said the first attack targeted airp...
