How does a government manage to take off with an event like Basant and crash-land with a blunder like the Gulfstream in the same month? The answer lies less in a sudden loss of rationality among the decision-makers and more in the political culture of power, perks, privileges and entitlement that comes with the holding […]
The US-Iran talks in Geneva culminated with no specific agreement reached between the two countries. Had it been just about the US and Iran, we might have witnessed an agreement of some sort between the two countries, but the real issue here is Israel and its uncompromising, aggressive posture against Iran. No American president can […]
Residents of Peshawar intending to travel abroad are encountering significant difficulties in acquiring the meningococcal vaccine, which is now mandatory for international travel under directives from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Health Department. Many citizens are being forced to search desperately for the vaccine, often turning to other provinces at their own expense due to its unavailability at […]
Police in Balochistan recovered the bodies of three men in two separate incidents in the districts of Surab and Panjgur. In Surab, law enforcers received information that two bodies were lying in the Marap area on the outskirts of the town. A police team reached the spot, recovered the bodies, and shifted them to a […]
In a heartbreaking turn of events in the rural village of Wanda Mudat, Panyala area on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, a fierce altercation between two brothers escalated tragically, resulting in the deaths of Frontier Constabulary solider and a police constable who attempted to intervene. According to local sources, during the heated dispute between […]
The District and Sessions Court of Islamabad on Saturday upheld the arrest warrants against Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi in a case linked to alleged misleading accusations against state institutions. The court noted that the accused was absent and had not been produced despite earlier directions, leading to further delay in proceedings. The hearing took […]
Renowned religious scholar Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman announced the minimum amounts for Zakat al-Fitr (almsgiving), Fidya (compensation for missed fasting) and Kaffara (penalty) for fasting on Saturday. According to his statement, the minimum amount for Zakat al-Fitr and Fidya has been set at Rs300 per person, while those with financial means have been encouraged to pay according to their […]
President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will raise temporary tariffs on almost all United States imports from 10% to 15%, the maximum level allowed under the law, after the US Supreme Court struck down his previous tariff program as invalid. Trump had immediately announced a 10% across-the-board tariff on Friday after the court’s decision, […]
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that his country would not bow its head to pressure from world powers amid nuclear talks with the United States. “World powers are lining up to force us to bow our heads … but we will not bow our heads despite all the problems that they are creating […]
The Sindh Assembly on Saturday passed a resolution declaring that Karachi was and would remain an integral and inseparable part of the province amid renewed debate over the city’s constitutional status. The resolution, presented by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, came as last month Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and Health Minister Mustafa Kamal called for Karachi […]