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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reached Peshawar on Thursday on his first visit to the province since governor’s rule and emergency were imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on October 11, according to sources in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). PM Shehbaz is expected to chair the apex committee on terrori...
All but one of the suspects arrested over recent settler attacks on an American photojournalist and a visiting French mayor in the West Bank have been released from detention and placed under house arrest, their lawyers said. Israeli police had announced on Monday the arrests of 10 people implicated...
India began annual measures on Thursday to tackle toxic air pollution in New Delhi, a megacity of 30 million people regularly ranked among the world’s most polluted capitals. Delhi’s air quality deteriorates in winter, when cooler air traps pollutants close to the ground. Major sources include coal-...
Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline Thursday as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers. As AI’s fast-advancing capabilities fuel concern over the increased risk of cyberattacks, ...
Early voting has been underway for weeks ahead of the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, when US voters will elect members of the House of Representatives and Senate and governors in states across the country. Held in the middle of each four-year presidential term, the midterms by definition do no...
Young students attending their debut political gathering, longtime supporters coming since 2015, or curious onlookers witnessing a presidential spectacle, they all agree. As Donald Trump runs his final campaign, no one will be able to replace his rallies. “There’s a lot of Americana. There’s a lot o...
LAHORE: A special committee of the Punjab Assembly, chaired by MPA Samiullah Khan, came down hard on decades of government oversight failures after Lahore Gymkhana Club Chairman Salman Siddique conceded that the annual rent of Rs5,000 paid for over 100 acres of prime state land in the provincial cap...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday summoned the Punjab home secretary and the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail in a petition seeking the release of three sisters of former prime minister Imran Khan. All three of Imran’s sisters — Aleema Khan, Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khan — were detained by au...
• Mental health experts explain how diseased mind perceives and rationalises the extreme act• Identify socio-economic distress, anguish, despair and mental health conditions as key factors• Stress that psychiatric conditions are treatable with therapy and medication KARACHI: How could one spouse per...
IN the two days before writing this column, I had the pleasure of being immersed in a series of discussions in Islamabad on all things related to taxes in Pakistan. Hosted by the finance ministry and the IMF, the discussions brought together senior practitioners, advisers, and stakeholders for a det...
THE World Bank’s Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity report presents a sobering reality: poverty has climbed back to 25.3 per cent on the national line; and close to 45pc of Pakistanis fall below the bank’s new $4.20-a-day threshold. Stabilising our way into deeper poverty has exposed the limits ...
THERE had been much speculation about what exactly the trilateral Makkah Joint Defence Agreement entails, other than general commitments about the collective defence of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye. But with the release of the text of the 16-article agreement, there is now some clarity about ...
