Alerts
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a marriage could be dissolved on grounds of shiqaq (marital discord) under a residuary provision of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 even when cruelty was not proven. The residuary provision of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act,...
ISLAMABAD: PPP stalwart Farooq H. Naek has resigned from the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) — a constitutional body which appoints judges in the superior judiciary. “Yes, I have resigned from the body personal commitments,” the senator, who has also served as chairman of the upper house of Pa...
ISLAMABAD: PPP stalwart Farooq H. Naek has resigned from the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) — a constitutional body which appoints judges in the superior judiciary. “Yes, I have resigned from the body personal commitments,” the senator, who has also served as chairman of the upper house of Pa...
The Pakistan Navy seized narcotics worth approximately $96 million during two successful counter-narcotics operations while deployed in the Arabian Sea, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday. In a press release, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Pakistan Navy Ship Yarmook conducted t...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Wednesday slammed Governor Faisal Karim Kundi for holding “unconstitutional” meetings, contending that the move was an “attack on democracy”. His remarks came a day after Governor Kundi chaired a meeting with the KP chief secretary and inspector gen...
PESHAWAR: Seven policemen were injured when terrorists attacked a police checkpost in Kohat early on Wednesday. “The attack was successfully repulsed. The injured cops are safe,” a senior police official, who requested to remain anonymous, told Dawn. According to police sources, the policemen were i...
Three years after Hamas’s Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered a devastating onslaught, much of Gaza still lies in ruins. Deadly Israeli strikes continue despite a fragile ceasefire that has largely held for almost a year. Homes, hospitals, schools and entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed or ...
Lionel Messi described his retirement from international football as the “saddest day of my career” on Tuesday after playing his final game for Argentina in a 3-0 defeat of Benin. Messi, who scored a goal and provided two assists in the victory at the Monumental Stadium, took to the field after the ...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday rejected the Sindh government’s petition seeking to revisit its June 10 decision overturning the convictions of two Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers for their alleged involvement in the deadly 2012 Baldia Town factory fire in Karachi. Over 260 wor...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday rejected the Sindh government’s petition seeking to revisit its June 10 decision overturning the convictions of two Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers for their alleged involvement in the deadly 2012 Baldia Town factory fire in Karachi. Over 260 wor...
Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis,” the award-giving body said on Wednesday. The chemistry Nobel, always the third prize to be awarded during Nobel week, followed thos...
Nasa has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth’s planetary neighbour. Curiosity landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equat...
