Pakistan, India renew Kartarpur Corridor Agreement for 5-year term: FO – Pakistan

Pakistan and India have renewed their agreement to facilitate pilgrims via the Kartarpur Corridor for an additional five-year period, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Tuesday. A statement issued by the FO said that the “Agreement between the Republic of India and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan for the facilitation of pilgrims […]

Special Parliamentary Committee reconvenes sans SIC-PTI to pick next CJP – Pakistan

A meeting of the newly appointed Special Parliamentary Committee (SPC) to nominate the next chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) from among the three most senior Supreme Court judges reconvened on Tuesday night after failing to compel members associated with the PTI-Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) to attend proceedings. CJP Qazi Faez Isa is set to retire […]

Fact check: JUI-F’s Asad Mehmood has not been nominated as KP governor – Pakistan

Posts from multiple users on Monday on social media platform X claimed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi was removed and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Maulana Asad Mehmood has been nominated for the office. However, no such development has occurred. Mehmood is the son of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Fazl played a pivotal role […]

Iraq says top Islamic State group figure among 9 killed – World

Iraqi authorities announced on Tuesday that security forces had killed nine Islamic State (IS) group commanders, including the banned militant group’s top figure in the country, in a raid in the northern mountains. Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement that counterterrorism forces “killed nine terrorists, among them the so-called governor of Iraq” for […]

IMF predicts slightly slower global growth in 2024 and 2025 – World

Global growth is expected to ease slightly to 3.2 per cent this year and remain at that level in 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Tuesday, while warning that the stable figures masked “important” regional and sectoral shifts. In its new World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF also estimates that global inflation […]

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