Palestine on BRICS agenda – Newspaper
AT the heart of the war on Iran is the issue of Palestine. That the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi last week suspended their open differences and declared support for an independent Palestinian state is therefore a major development. The gist of the “unanimous” agreement announced by India as this year’s chair does […]
Sindh Assembly passes bill for legal cover to household workers – Pakistan
KARACHI: In a move to protect some of the province’s most overlooked workers, the Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Domestic Workers Welfare Bill 2025, bringing formal safeguards to the employment and working conditions of household workers across the province. According to the bill, which requires gubernatorial assent to become law, a domestic worker is […]
Imran urges SC to order his hospitalisation – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking directions his transfer to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital, access to his personal physicians, family and counsel, and provision of his medical details to the family. A similar petition was earlier moved before the SC by his sister Dr Uzma Khan who challenged […]
India will be ‘relegated to history’ if it attempts misadventure against Pakistan: Khawaja Asif – Pakistan
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday said that India would be “relegated to history” and its geography “changed” if it attempted any future misadventure against Pakistan. In an interview on the Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’, Asif said, “As a nation, India thinks that its esteem has been damaged.” The defence minister was referring to […]
PM Shehbaz arrives in Quetta to chair provincial NAP committee meeting
Upon arrival, the prime minister was received by Balochistan Governor Jaffar Khan Mandokhail Balochistan Governor Jaffar Khan Mandokhail recieves Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as he arrives in Quetta today on a day-long visit. PMO Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Quetta on Tuesday for a one-day visit, where he would chair a meeting of the […]
Fazl urges President Zardari to ‘protect’ 18th Amendment – Pakistan
KARACHI: Amid growing speculation over the possibility of the 28th Amendment, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman placed President Asif Ali Zardari in a difficult position on Monday, urging him to protect the 18th Amendment with the same determination he had shown in helping bring it into existence in 2010 while holding the same office. Responding […]
Saif Ali Khan calls modern Bollywood romcoms ‘failed experiments’
Actor says genre may have ‘started and finished’ with him in Indian cinema but remains open to return Actor Saif Ali Khan recently went viral for his take on romcoms in Bollywood, calling many modern films in the genre “failed experiments.” In an interview to promote his new film Kartavya, the actor spoke to Indian […]
5 dead, including 2 teen suspects, after shooting at San Diego’s largest mosque – World
Two teenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Centre of San Diego, California, killing a security guard and two other men outside the mosque before the suspects were found dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said local law enforcement and the FBI were investigating the […]
5 dead, including 2 teen suspects, after shooting at San Diego mosque – World
Two teenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Centre of San Diego, California, killing a security guard and two other men outside the mosque before the suspects were found dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said local law enforcement and the FBI were investigating the […]
Federal Shariat Court strikes down 2022 legislation decriminalising suicide attempt – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Shariat Court on Monday declared the decriminalisation of suicide attempts repugnant to the injunctions of Islam and struck down a 2022 legislation through which that act had been omitted its as an offence from the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman, Justice Syed Muhammad Anwar […]