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An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday ordered authorities to produce records of 29 cases registered against PTI founder Imran Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi.

Iran on Tuesday denounced “baseless claims” made by United States President Donald Trump, calling Washington “the largest sponsor of terrorism”. Addressing Israel’s Knesset on Monday ahead of joining an international peace summit in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, Trump said that Iran wants to reach a peace deal with the US “even if they said, ‘We don’t want to make a deal,’”. In a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA, the foreign ministry said: “The US, as the world’s largest generator of terrorism and supporter of the terrorist and genocidal Zionist (Israeli) regime, has no moral authority to level accusations against others.” “The repetition of false claims regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme can in no way justify the joint crimes of the US and the Zionist regime” in violating Iran’s soil, the ministry said. Israel launched a surprise attack on Tehran on June 13, targeting military, nuclear, and civilian sites as well as senior military commanders and nuclear scientists. Tehran launched retalia...

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Aleema Khan, sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, in connection with a protest case related to the November 26 demonstrations.

Pakistan has strongly condemned India’s “lies and recycled distortions” over Jammu and Kashmir, calling on the United Nations to take decisive action to resolve the long-standing dispute in line with Security Council resolutions.

Ceasefire, reconstruction plans and the weary diplomacy of war’s aftermath — this is what the summit hall in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh was meant for. Yet when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took the microphone, the air shifted — solemnity gave way to spectacle. Before a room of world leaders convened to discuss the future of Gaza, the Pakistani premier delivered not a statement of statecraft, but a volley of high praise … for US President Donald Trump. He called Trump a “man of peace”, spoke of nominating him for the Nobel Prize, and credited him with averting a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. And as Trump looked on with a grin of self-satisfaction, the rest of the hall seemed to freeze between disbelief and bemusement. The applause was hesitant; the headlines were instant. View this post on Instagram By conventional diplomatic standards, PM Shehbaz’s remarks were absurd. No leader in that room — not Sisi, not Macron, not Erdoğan — matched that tone of unrestrained flattery. In a forum built for multilat...

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Tuesday filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) challenging the election of Sohail Afridi as the new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), declaring it unconstitutional and illegal.

Google on Tuesday said it would invest $15 billion in India over the next five years as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country’s south. “It is the largest AI hub that we are investing in anywhere outside of the US,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, at a ceremony in New Delhi. He announced “capital investment of $15bn” over the five years and a “gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam”, a city in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Google has plans for the centre to eventually “scale to multiple gigawatts”, Kurian added. Demand for AI tools and solutions has surged in India — projected to have more than 900 million internet users by year’s end — driven by growing adoption by businesses and individuals. India’s Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, thanked Google for the investment. “This digital infrastructure will go a long way in meeting the goals of our India AI vision,” he said. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu called it a “very...

Petroleum prices in Pakistan are expected to decrease from October 16, following a downward trend in the international oil market, sources confirmed on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted mainly dry weather across most parts of the country on Tuesday, with cold conditions likely to prevail in hilly and northern areas during the night and early morning hours.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has cautioned users about possible internet slowdowns or temporary disruptions for up to 18 hours due to maintenance work on the country’s undersea communication network on Tuesday (today).

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has directed the provision of all possible facilities for the upcoming annual congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat in Raiwind next month.

LAHORE - An anti-polio campaign targeting more than 2.

ISLAMABAD - Chinese high-tech agricultural machinery is at the heart of Punjab’s bold new Rs30 billion mechanization programme, launched last week to revolutionize farming across Pakistan’s largest food-producing province.

ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting was convened at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination to review progress and discuss measures for advancing shared goals to strengthen Pakistan’s carbon market rules, pricing mechanisms, and governance frameworks under the Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation.

Karachi - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday launched the province-wide anti-polio campaign by administering drops to two newborns at KMC Gizri Maternity Home.

• 42 battered Pakistanis reunite with their families at Edhi Centre • Six others still await government clearance in Lahore • Returnees say beatings, burn injuries and forced labour became routine after Pakistan-India conflict KARACHI: Some 42 of the 48 Pakistani fishermen released from Indian jails and handed over to Pakistani authorities through the Wagah Border reached Karachi on Monday after a long wait of over a month because of the uncertain situation in Lahore. There are still six of them awaiting government clearance in Lahore. The expected time of arrival of the fishermen reaching the city by road from Lahore, thanks to the Edhi Foundation, was 12 noon, though they reached the Edhi Centre at Kharadar after 2:30pm. Still, the media gathered there already felt like they knew each and every one of them, as they had heard so much about them from their family members waiting for them there since morning. What’s common is the story of the horrible torture they endured in custody after the May conflict betw...

PESHAWAR: Newly-elected CM Sohail Afridi addressing KP Assembly.

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court’s Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar on Monday remarked that constitutional matters will only be heard by the constitutional bench.

LAHORE - At least five people including one Station House Officer (SHO) were killed and dozens others injured, some critically, as clashes erupted between police and thousands of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters marching in support of Palestinians in Muridke on Monday, police sources and witnesses said.

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