Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday he expected to have a draft counterproposal ready within days following nuclear talks with the United States this week, while US President Donald Trump said he was considering limited military strikes. Two US officials told Reuters that US military planning on Iran had reached an advanced stage, with options including targeting individuals as part of an attack and even […]
US President Donald Trump moved swiftly on Friday to replace tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court with a temporary 10% global import duty for 150 days and ordered new investigations under other laws that could allow him to re-impose the tariffs. Trump signed executive orders late on Friday to impose new tariffs starting on […]
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has begun rolling out a long-awaited update that allows new group chat members to see recent conversation history sent before they joined the group. The Group Message History feature gives group admins and existing members the option to share between 25 and up to 100 recent messages with someone who has […]
France on Friday handed over a “talking drum” looted by colonial troops from Ivory Coast in 1916 in the latest repatriation of stolen artefacts. The Djidji Ayokwe drum, more than three metres (10 feet) long and weighing 430 kilos (950 pounds) was used by the Ebrie tribe to transmit messages. It is one of hundreds […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged a marked improvement in Pakistan’s economic outlook, stating that policy efforts under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) have helped stabilise the economy, contain inflation and rebuild confidence, as the country prepares for a fresh round of review talks later this month. Speaking at a press briefing in Washington, […]
Sindh Senior Minister and Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon strongly condemned hateful and linguistically-biased speeches delivered at a recent ceremony at the Governor House, describing the choice of words and ideas as deeply regrettable. Speaking in the Sindh Assembly, Memon called Sindh the land of Sufis, peace, and tolerance, and recalled Karachi’s painful history […]
The United Nations on Friday called on governments to clamp down on scam centres, which have mushroomed in Southeast Asia with hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into forced labour. The UN human rights office released a report documenting torture, sexual abuse, forced abortions, food deprivation, solitary confinement and other abuses. “The litany of abuse […]
The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has made it clear that the Supreme Court’s authority to strike down legislation on constitutional grounds no longer vests in it under the present constitutional scheme. “The Constitution (Twenty-Seventh) Amendment Act, 2025 has restructured the constitutional distribution of judicial power. As a consequence, the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has […]
Poverty in Pakistan has surged to an 11-year high of 29 per cent, while income inequality has reached its highest level in 27 years, as people’s real incomes and consumption nosedived during the past seven years, according to an official survey released by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday. Around 70 million people in Pakistan […]
London Fashion Week launched on Thursday with a rare visit from King Charles III only hours after his brother Andrew’s sensational arrest, overshadowing an event traditionally focused on highlighting new talent. The king surprised crowds when his car pulled up outside a show by British-Nigerian designer Tolu Coker — on a day when headlines were dominated […]