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An Islamabad district and sessions court has granted interim bail to Nahar Muhammad, a co-accused in the case involving the alleged suicide of university student Laiba Ijaz following an alleged education fraud. Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka heard the bail application and approved the relief until October 20 against surety bonds worth Rs20,000. The court also issued notices to the parties and directed them to present their arguments at the next hearing. Nahar appeared before the court alongside his lawyers. His counsel argued that he was innocent…

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A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Thursday that ​hundreds of kilograms of explosives seized last week by Lebanese security forces belonged to his ‌group, as tensions persist over the government’s push to disarm the group. Lebanese authorities stopped the explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa region last week and arrested two people in the car. At the time, authorities did not say who the ​vehicle belonged to, prompting widespread worry in Lebanon that the explosives were intended for car bomb ​assassinations or other destabilising attacks inside the country.…

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An elderly couple who had recently returned to Karachi from Canada were found murdered inside their locked home in North Karachi, prompting police to register a case against unidentified suspects and launch an investigation. The case was registered at the Sir Syed police station on the complaint of Muhammad Anwar, brother of the deceased Muhammad Yamin, under murder-related provisions of the law. According to the complainant, Yamin and his wife, Nafis Akhtar, had returned to Karachi from Canada some time ago. They had their house in North Karachi vacated by…

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Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said the federal government did not want to impose an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tried until the last moment to avoid the move by seeking cooperation from the provincial government in the fight against terrorism. Speaking during a joint sitting of parliament on Thursday, he rejected allegations that the government had used the issue of terrorism for political purposes, saying the subject was discussed first during negotiations with the opposition. “God is my witness, we did not want to impose an emergency or governor’s…

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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday rejected calls to resign as thousands of student-led protesters smashed windows ​and fought running battles with riot police firing water cannon and tear gas in the capital. Protesters voiced anger about perceived corruption, the cost ‌and quality of education and a deal to sell off parts of its pristine southern coastline to a luxury resort development backed by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. They demanded Rama’s resignation, saying no one had listened to their concerns during a summer of largely peaceful…

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A preliminary report on the school roof collapse in the Dir Colony area of Peshawar has been sent to the provincial government, sources said on Thursday. The report was prepared by Rescue and the district administration. It identifies the collapse of the third-floor roof and says the school building was unsafe. According to the report, the roof that fell stood 20 to 25 feet above the ground. The other rooms had ready-made roofs, but the roof on the top floor had weakened in the rain. The report said students had…

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Pakistani television actress Sukaina Khan has married for the second time in the United States, sharing photographs and videos from the wedding on social media. The actress celebrated the occasion in a traditional ceremony, wearing a red bridal outfit, while her husband appeared in a white sherwani. The photographs and videos shared by Sukaina captured moments from the ceremony and her new beginning, drawing positive responses from fans. The actress had previously married in 2021 and also shared photographs and videos from those wedding celebrations on social media. However, that…

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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday invited National Assembly Opposition Leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai to resume discussions on political and constitutional matters during an informal meeting at a joint session of Parliament. Sources said PM Sharif expressed concern over the year-long deadlock over the appointment of the chief election commissioner and other members of the Election Commission, stressing that the constitutional requirement should not be subject to political manoeuvring. The prime minister urged Achakzai to prioritise resolving the appointments, while the opposition leader listened attentively and nodded during their conversation,…

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The National Savings has announced the results of the 108th draw of the Rs750 Prize Bond, held in Rawalpindi on Thursday. The first prize of Rs1.5 million went to bond number 347425. Three bondholders won the second prize of Rs500,000 each. The winning numbers are 827353, 007447 and 876615. A total of 1,696 bondholders won the third prize of Rs9,300 each. The list of third prize winners will be published once National Savings releases it. Follow Aaj News for updates.

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Israeli digital advertising agency Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of online ads that it used to ​track targets and help hack their devices, two research groups said on Thursday. Its services gave Israel’s Candiru — a spyware company blacklisted by the US government — as well as ‌other Israeli surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia’s Yandex and others, according to separate reports from Canadian cyber watchdog group Citizen Lab and New York advertising security firm Confiant. The reports show how the…

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