Signs of a potential thaw in the country’s tense political landscape emerged on Saturday as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended an offer for a dialogue to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). In a brief but significant exchange during a session of the National Assembly, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan responded with a hopeful one-word reply: […]
The Punjab Home Department on Saturday categorically denied a report published in UK online newspaper The Independent about the “inhumane” treatment being meted out to PTI Patron-in-Chief Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi during their incarceration, stating that both husband and wife were “receiving full legal entitlements”. While speaking to the British newspaper, Zulfiqar […]
The FIA (Multan Zone) has arrested two individuals involved in human trafficking and visa fraud as part of its ongoing crackdown on illegal migration networks. The arrests were made during major operations in different parts of the city. According to an FIA spokesperson, the arrested suspects have been identified as Muhammad Muzammil and Sher Khan. […]
The US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling blunting a potent weapon that federal judges have used to block government policies nationwide during legal challenges was in many ways a victory for President Donald Trump, except perhaps on the very policy he is seeking to enforce. An executive order that the Republican president signed on his first […]
At least 31 people have died and dozens more have been injured in rain-related incidents across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces over the past 48 hours, authorities confirmed on Saturday. According to Radio Pakistan, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) in Punjab confirmed that 12 people were killed and 39 injured in separate incidents […]
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday strongly condemned the suicide attack on security forces in North Waziristan, terming it a cowardly act sponsored by external forces aiming to destabilise the country. In their separate statements, the president and the prime minister paid tribute to the 13 soldiers martyred during the […]
The United States and the Group of Seven nations have agreed to support a proposal that would exempt US companies from some components of an existing global agreement, the G7 said in a statement on Saturday. The group has created a ‘side-by-side’ system in response to the US administration agreeing to scrap the Section 899 […]
Researchers in Australia have developed a powerful new technique to uncover hidden “vault” apps on smartphones — a discovery that could aid law enforcement in digital investigations. The study, conducted by Edith Cowan University and the University of Southern Queensland, found that machine learning (ML) can identify vault apps with up to 98% accuracy on […]
Thirteen servicemen were martyred and three civilians – two children and a woman – injured in a suicide attack targeting a military convoy in North Waziristan tribal district on Saturday, as the army chief vowed to relentlessly pursue terrorists and unmask the “true perpetrator of terrorism in the region.” “A vehicle-borne suicide bomber attempted to […]
Heavy rain struck China’s southwestern Guizhou province again on Saturday, half-submerging the already flood-stricken riverside city of Rongjiang for a second time this week and prompting the evacuation of residents to higher ground. Located at the confluence of three rivers and home to 300,000 residents, Rongjiang was inundated earlier this week by record downpours that […]