Новости за 16.05.2024

PTI MNA Zartaj Gul said that Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) lawmaker Tariq Bashir Cheema tendered an “unconditional apology” to her following misconduct in the National Assembly session on Thursday.

The Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Thursday summoned a report from the defence secretary on the alleged role of state intelligence agencies in the abduction of Kashmiri poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah.

The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed a case for contempt proceedings against independent Senator Faisal Vawda for May 17.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Thursday was speaking but tired and still in a “really difficult condition” a day after being shot multiple times, the president-elect said after visiting his ally.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the government would seek a permanent solution to the issues faced by the people of Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).

An AI video shows an ecstatic Narendra Modi sporting a trendy jacket and trousers, grooving on a stage to a Bollywood song as the crowd cheers. The Indian prime minister reshared the video on X, saying “such creativity in peak poll season is truly a delight.”

A Supreme Court hearing on Thursday on a case about changes in the accountability laws turned out anticlimactic as ex-premier Imran Khan appeared via video link but did not get a chance to speak as a petitioner in the matter.

It would not be Pakistan cricket if it were elaborate, calculated, and structured. There has to be an element of uncertainty. It is, after all, that “mercurial” tag that makes Pakistan cricket so intoxicating.

India’s star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra predictably won gold in his first competition at home in three years, but refused to read too much into his below-par 82.27 metre throw as he prepares to defend his Olympic title in Paris.

The Supreme Court has resumed hearing a case about changes in the accountability laws as former prime minister Imran Khan appeared before it via video link as a petitioner in the matter.

TAXILA: Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider on Wednesday said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had joined forces with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to address both economic and political crises in the best interest of the public.

LAHORE: With a large portion of Pakistan’s population, particularly children and women, suffering from moderate to acute malnutrition, the US government is spending $85 million directly to address malnutrition issues, including $12mn on acute cases, across the country.

Welcome to Karachi, Pakistan’s bustling economic hub, where not only has the struggle for necessities like public transport and clean water become a daily battle, but the rising air pollution has made breathing difficult too. Amid these difficulties, one artist has proposed an innovative solution to combat the city’s increasingly unbreathable air: planting air purifiers in homes.

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police chief Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi held meetings with senior police officers at the Central Police Office to discuss the revamping of the Investigation Wing and reforms in the Special Protection Unit, Anti-Riot Unit, Counter-Terrorism Department and Special Branch.

ISLAMABAD: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that as many as 66 out of a total of 154 (or 42.8pc) public-sector Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the country either have no vice chancellor/ rector or VCs/ rectors working on an ad hoc basis.

ISLAMABAD: Two senators at separate but similar pressers on Wednes­day questioned judges about their allegation of interference in judicial matters by intelligence agencies, saying that without evidence no one had right to raise finger at institutions.

TOBA TEK SINGH: A multi-party opposition alliance has decided to approach courts to seek permission for a rally in Faisalabad on May 17 as a part of its movement to ‘save’ the Constitution.

KARACHI: A university student lost his life but killed two suspected muggers in a gun battle near New Sabzi Mandi on Superhighway in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, police and his relatives said.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday sought comments on a petition filed against collection of parking fees within the jurisdictions of two cantonment boards in the metropolis.

KARACHI: The father of a housemaid who was found dead in a DHA house under controversial circumstances has lodged an FIR against the house owner’s son and employees for allegedly murdering his teenage daughter, it emerged on Wednesday.

AS billions of US dollars flowed in to rebuild Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, many contractors were accused of skimming reconstruction funds. Today, some of them own luxury properties in Dubai.

ONE of Pakistan’s most notorious cops, Rao Anwar, reputed to be an ‘encounter specialist’ whom the US and UK placed on their sanctions lists for having committed serious human rights abuses, made 74 trips to Dubai within a span of some six years. As senior superintendent of police, his salary was a modest Rs95,000 per month. And yet the Dubai property leaks, that came to the fore on May 14 in a global investigation led by the Orga­n­ised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Norwegian financial outlet E24... Читать дальше...

People carry their belongings as they walk through a rubble-strewn street in Gaza City, on Wednesday.—AFP

GAZA: Palestinians commemorated the 1948 “Nakba” or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel, as fighting raged amid the rubble in Gaza.

ISLAMABAD: PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday chided the PTI for seeking talks with the military, recalling that the party’s leaders had recently lectured on the importance of upholding the Constitution and warned the army against interfering in politics.

BEIJING: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.—X / @ForeignOfficePk

BEIJING: China is ready to work with Pakistan to develop an “upgraded version” of the China-Pakis­tan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Pakistani counterpart on Wednesday.