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Cabinet subcommittee presents initial findings after reviewing judicial commission report recommending fresh probe and action against police officials Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday directed the implementation of all recommendations made by a cabinet subcommittee examining the judicial commission report on the death of Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali. Members of the subcommittee met the chief minister and briefed him on progress following their first review meeting on the judicial commission’s report. They also presented their preliminary recommendations after a detailed examination of the findings. The four-member subcommittee…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to resume US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine as soon as next month, ​the Kremlin said on Wednesday, after Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in Washington’s latest push to stop Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War Two. The negotiations in a grand imperial palace in ‌St Petersburg, the ninth time that Witkoff has met Putin in person, began with a goodwill gesture from Russia – the release of Stephen Hubbard, a retired US school teacher held in Russia whom US President Trump had asked…

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt’s military effort to ​defend Saudi Arabia would not include ‌an attack on Yemen and would be limited to defending the kingdom’s ​territory and borders, according to ​a statement by the Egyptian presidency ⁠spokesperson on Wednesday. On Monday, Egypt’s parliament ​delayed until October 26 a vote ​on authorising the armed forces to support Saudi Arabia if requested, lawmakers said, extending ​deliberations over a potentially deeper ​Egyptian role following recent attacks by Yemen’s ‌Houthis. Egypt ⁠would also defend the territory of any other Arab country…

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Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday handed over Rs5.1 million to the family of Laiba Ejaz, an Islamabad student who died by suicide after allegedly being defrauded, and assured them that the remaining amount would also be returned soon. Naqvi, accompanied by Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry, visited Laiba’s family in Sector G-10 of Islamabad to offer condolences. They also recited Surah Al-Fatiha and prayed for the deceased. During the meeting, the interior minister briefed the family on progress in the case and handed over Rs5.1 million recovered…

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A 12-year-old domestic worker, Zainab, died allegedly after being subjected to torture at a house in Sheikhupura, with her family accusing the employer’s wife of beating the girl with sticks and shoe soles. Police said the incident took place on Khalid Road, where Zainab had been working as a domestic worker at the house of a man named Rafiqat. According to her family, Zainab had been working at the house for the past 18 months. They alleged that the woman of the house subjected her to severe physical violence, resulting…

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A nine-year-old domestic worker, Iman Fatima, was allegedly tortured by a police employee couple in Sheikhupura’s Gujjar Town, with her parents accusing them of breaking her arm and burning her with a heated iron rod. The girl’s parents alleged that Waris and Zunaira, both employees of the police department, accused Iman of theft and beat her with sticks and shoe soles, leaving her with a fractured arm. They also accused the couple of burning the child with a heated iron rod. In her statement, Iman said the accused continued beating…

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Yemen’s Houthis said they attacked a Saudi position in the city of Aden on Wednesday, with smoke seen rising near the airport, in the third attack in a week on the seat of power of Yemen’s Riyadh-backed government. “Our armed forces were able to target the Saudi enemy’s operations room in the Badr camp in Aden with a ballistic missile,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement. A police official in Aden earlier told AFP there had been a blast “caused by a Houthi missile”, speaking on condition…

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The El Nino weather phenomenon gripping the planet could be off the charts, the United Nations warned Wednesday, saying countries should take urgent action to prepare for the worst. “The current El Nino event could be unprecedented in strength. Literally off the monitoring charts that we have used for the past four decades,” Celeste Saulo, head of the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation, told a press conference in Geneva. “El Nino will peak towards the end of 2026, but its impacts will be felt long after that.” She said the WMO’s…

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Indonesia’s president railed on Wednesday against “countries that like to insult” his nation over wildfires that have razed vast areas, spewing toxic haze into neighbouring countries. The Southeast Asian giant has for months struggled to contain fires that Nusantara Atlas, an independent monitor analysing satellite data, said have consumed more than 1.9 million hectares in the nine months to September. The haze has sent air pollution levels surging to dangerous levels not only at home, but also in Malaysia, Singapore and East Timor, prompting the ASEAN regional bloc to call…

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French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Riyadh, where he is due to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday, in a surprise “solidarity” visit after weeks of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. Macron is the first Western leader to visit the kingdom since Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis intensified their attacks this month. The trip is part of a Gulf tour to secure diesel and petrol supplies as Macron seeks to bring down energy prices following violent protests in France sparked by rising living costs that have created a political crisis…

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