Year: 2026

Advocate Supreme Court Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon has served a Rs5 billion legal notice on Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar over an alleged statement questioning the authenticity of his LLB degree. The notice states that the alleged remarks, in which Bhoon’s degree was described as fake, were baseless, contrary to facts and defamatory. Bhoon has demanded that Safdar immediately withdraw the statement if he made any claim on September 23 about the absence of his degree record. Bhoon cites university verification According to the legal notice, Bhoon obtained his LLB degree from…

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Tuesday inaugurated new hybrid buses, a Pink Bus service, the solarisation of the Chamkani depot and the Mall of Hayatabad depot for the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. A briefing given to the chief minister said the BRT carries about 250,000 passengers daily, 30 per cent of them women. It said the service cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 30,000 tonnes a year. The addition of 52 new buses takes the BRT fleet to 296. The briefing said the new buses would allow…

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McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny. One pricing factor supercharged by AI: an estimate of how much each store’s patrons are willing to pay. The details of how that pricing system works, its extensive use of AI, the company’s regulatory concerns and the tensions with its franchisees haven’t been previously reported. Reuters reviewed screenshots of the company’s pricing engine taken in August and…

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to proceed with its planned long march to Islamabad on October 4, with the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa parliamentary group considering a prolonged stay in Swabi before deciding the next phase of the protest. The decision was taken at a parliamentary party meeting chaired by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Tuesday. The meeting was held through Zoom and was attended by provincial and national lawmakers, ministers, advisers and other party leaders. According to PTI sources, CM Afridi directed lawmakers and party leaders to make…

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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department seized 240 kilograms of hashish in an operation in Swabi, foiling an attempt to transport a large consignment of narcotics, the department said. The operation was conducted under the provincial government’s zero-tolerance policy against narcotics, and following directives from Provincial Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Syed Fakhar Jehan, the department said. According to the Excise Department, the operation was launched on a tip-off received by Excise and Taxation Officer Counter Narcotics Operations Majid Khan. Special teams were deployed under…

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Lindsay Clancy will return to court on Tuesday for a key hearing, as prosecutors weigh whether to retry the Massachusetts ​woman on murder charges for killing her three young children in 2023 and her lawyers push for the case’s dismissal. Judge William ‌Sullivan in Plymouth, Massachusetts, scheduled the hearing after declaring a mistrial on September 4, which occurred after a single juror prevented the 12-member jury from reaching a unanimous verdict on whether to convict Clancy or find her not guilty by reason of insanity. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy…

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the “hands of a foreign actor” were ​involved in an incident in which five men were arrested on suspected explosives and terrorism offences near a British airbase used ‌by US forces to strike Iran. British police declared a major incident at the RAF Fairford base in western England following the arrests early on Sunday, and the government held a national emergency meeting. However, the police released the five on bail on Monday, but said the investigation was not over and they were examining…

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Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb held a kick-off meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission on Tuesday. “Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, held a kick-off meeting with the IMF mission, led by Iva Petrova,” read a statement released by the Ministry of Finance.  “The IMF mission is in Islamabad for the fourth review of Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the third review of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF),” it added. Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Jameel Ahmad, Chairman of the…

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The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication on Tuesday confirmed a new polio case, fifth of Pakistan this year, from Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The affected child is a 17-month-old girl from Khandar Khankhel Union Council in Tehsil Domel of Bannu district. Out of the five total cases reported this year, four have emerged from Bannu Division, with three detected in Bannu district alone. Although overall transmission of the poliovirus across the country has declined since 2025, the virus’s presence and circulation in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remain a persistent…

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