Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari conferred the award of Nishan-e- Imtiaz (Military) upon Vice Admiral Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Ghoraibi, Chief of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, at a special investiture ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday.

Balochistan CM assures strict action against culprits Case handed over to SCIW as 11 suspects arrested Medical report says woman victim was shot 7 bullets while man was fired 7 BHC CJ takes notice of couple’s killing.

ISLAMABAD - A local court on Monday rejected the exemption from appearance request of Chief Minister KPK Ali Amin Gandapur and issued his arrest warrants in alleged liquor and illegal weapon case.

GB, NARAN - Floods, triggered by heavy rain, swept through Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) Babusar area in Diamer district on Monday killing at least three tourists and injuring four others.

HONG KONG: China’s Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated cost of at least $170 billion, the official Xinhua news agency said. Commencement of the hydropower project, China’s most ambitious since the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze, was seized by Chinese markets as proof of economic stimulus, sending stock prices and bond yields higher on Monday. Made up of five cascade hydropower stations with the capacity to produce 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, equal to the amount of electricity consumed by Britain last year, the dam will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo. A section of the river tumbles 2,000 metres in a span of 50km, offering huge hydropower potential. India and Bangladesh have already raised concerns about its possible impact on the millions of people downstream, while NGOs warned of the risk to one of the richest and most diverse environments...

ISLAMABAD - Iran’s Interior Minister Seyyed Eskandar Momeni on Monday held a telephonic conversation with Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, during which they discussed the upcoming visit of Iranian President Dr Masoud Pezeshkian to Pakistan on July 26.

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Speaker Babar Salim Swati has written a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Yahya Afridi in which he has said that the Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice (CJ) orders to the provincial governor to administer the oath to the MPAs on reserved seats are a violation of the.

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb yesterday said that Afghanistan was a significant market for Pakistani products.

ISLAMABAD - The PTI founder approached the Islamabad High Court for the implementation of the court order regarding better facilities in the jail.

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday issued contempt notices to the Prime Minister and the Federal Cabinet in a petition filed by Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, seeking the repatriation, and release of her sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned in the United States of America.

ISLAMABAD - The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday called for the formation of a parliamentary committee to probe the sugar scandal and the alleged influence of ‘mafia’, dealing with the business of the essential commodity, within the country’s power corridors.

ISLAMABAD - Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, said Monday that the Competition Commission of Pakistan’s new management, appointed in August 2023, has introduced key reforms to enhance institutional performance.

PESHAWAR - The oath taking of 25 newly elected opposition members of the KP Assembly on reserved seats, administered by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi has been challenged in the Peshawar High Court on Monday.

ISLAMABAD - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar yesterday reaffirmed Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during his address at the general debate of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development’s Ministerial Segment.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has said that when superior courts issue remand directions, they are to be complied with faithfully and expeditiously.

American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby’s son Theo on the 1980s ground-breaking television hit “The Cosby Show,” died at age 54 on Monday by drowning, a law enforcement source confirmed to Reuters. Malcolm-Jamal Warner was vacationing in Costa Rica with his family, media reported. The Central American nation’s judicial investigation department (OIJ) confirmed […]

Russia and Ukraine will hold new peace talks in Turkey Wednesday as a follow-up to two rounds in Istanbul that made little progress on ending their war, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. While US President Donald Trump has increased the pressure by giving Russia 50 days to agree on a deal or face sanctions, Zelensky spoke […]

SWAT: At least four children lost their lives on Monday as flash floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains, caused widespread destruction in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district. Torrential rains led to landslides and powerful flood currents across various areas of the district, resulting in the deaths of four children and leaving one child missing. Rescue efforts […]

NEW YORK: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres and reaffirmed Pakistan’s unwavering and resolute commitment to multilateralism. During the meeting, Ishaq Dar reassured Antonio Guterres of Pakistan’s focus on strengthening the UN’s role in conflict resolution, in promoting sustainable development, and in […]

Diamer: At least three tourists have been confirmed dead and 15 are reported missing on Monday following severe landslides and flash flooding triggered by a cloudburst at Babusar Top, a mountainous pass in Gilgit-Baltistan. The cloudburst caused intense flooding and landslides across a 7 to 8-kilometre stretch around Babusar Top, blocking roads at 14 to […]