Federal Constitutional Court rejects extra perks for former bureaucrats – Pakistan
• Balochistan govt’s plea relates to grant of lifetime facilities for retired officers• Court emphasises all govt actions must be rooted in legal authority ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has rejected a plea by the Balochistan government seeking to grant lifetime facilities to retired chief secretaries and their widows. Justice Aamer Farooq, who headed […]
On press freedoms – Newspaper
THE citizenry forgets, to its own peril, how important a free and independent media is in the preservation of their personal freedoms. Today, on World Press Freedom Day, it is worth reflecting on the state of our media and how continuing restrictions on its ability to function independently may, in fact, jeopardise individual liberties. A […]
Oil spike threatens Pakistan’s economic growth – Pakistan
• Analysts say inflation may exceed 11pc, CAD could rise above $8bn• GDP expansion may slow to 2.5-3.0pc in FY27 KARACHI: Pakistan’s inflation is likely to remain in double digits if the surge in oil prices persists amid the unresolved Middle East conflict, analysts warned, adding that rising costs and disrupted imports are already straining […]
Bin Laden nearly slipped out of Abbottabad: CIA report – Pakistan
• Al Qaeda leader had agreed in writing to relocate by September 2011• Two brothers sheltering him sought separation, citing exhaustion• Agency claims to be entirely unaware of the relocation plan, says delayed raid would have missed the opportunity WASHINGTON: A decade after the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a fresh Central […]
Islamabad judges’ transfer challenged in Peshawar High Court – Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Saturday moved the Peshawar High Court challenging the recent transfer of three judges of the Islamabad High Court to other provinces, along with the relevant constitutional provisions. Advocate Hastham Khan Khalil filed a petition in the PHC, requesting that the Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP’s) April 28 decision to transfer judges […]
Iran says ball in US court on war or diplomacy – World
WASHINGTON: A man stands atop the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Saturday to protest the US-Israeli war on Iran. Guido Reichstadter climbed the bridge in Washington on May Day, stayed there overnight, and posted a sunrise photo from one of the bridge’s arches while calling for an end to the war on Iran. Speaking to […]
Trump says US could restart Iran strikes ‘if they misbehave’
Trump said US Navy was acting ‘like pirates’ in carrying out Washington’s naval blockade of Iranian ports US President Donald Trump speaks at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida about the recent interception, boarding, and seizure of Iranian cargo ships and oil tankers by the US Navy. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB US President Donald Trump said […]
To infinity and beyond
Sometime in the near future, an astronaut from Pakistan will float through a hatch into China’s space station and become, in that small weightless moment, the first foreign national to board Tiangong. He will have trained for months in a language that is not his own, in a country with its own complicated reasons for […]