Новости за 09.01.2025

• Experts suggest prevailing on Hibatullah Akhundzada to solve outstanding issues with Afghanistan
• Call for holistic approach to counterterrorism
• PIPS head opposes idea of restarting dialogue with banned group, says it would lend them political legitimacy

SARGODHA: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz says the confinement of PTI leader in jail and his involvement in criminal cases was nothing but the “outcome of his own misdeeds”.

KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Wednesday appointed former Pakistan captain Younis Khan as the mentor for the national team for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.

HAMILTON: New Zealand ripped through Sri Lanka’s top order on Wednesday to win the rain-reduced second One-day International in Hamilton by 113 runs and clinch the series.

LONDON: As the European Union grapples with how to respond to Elon Musk, European leaders warned that fascism could return as the X owner “openly attacks our institutions” and “stirs up hatred”.

TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday called for the withdrawal of Israel from Syrian territory, following the fall of long-time Tehran’s ally Bashar al-Assad.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has sought a report into the alleged illegal allotment of plots worth billions of rupees by the National Police Foundation (NPF) to senior police officials and private firms.

• Trudeau says ‘snowball’s chance in hell’ of Canada’s merger with US
• Mexican president says Trump ‘living in the past’; Panama asserts sovereignty over canal

• PTI leader’s legal team says observer will also be able to assess ex-PM’s condition in jail
• Property seizure proceedings in £190m reference put off

LOS ANGELES: At least two people were killed as a trio of fast-growing wildfires raged out of control on Wednesday near Los Angeles, destroying hundreds of buildings, scorching hillsides and prompting officials to order some 70,000 people to evacuate their homes. Fierce winds were hindering firefighting efforts and fuelling the fires, which have expanded unimpeded since they began on Tuesday.

KABUL: The Afghan government warned Iran on Wednesday against “irresponsible comments” following Tehran’s criticism last week of an upstream dam being built by its neighbour.

GAZA STRIP: Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 51 more people on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as the Red Cross called for safe and unhindered access to bring desperately needed aid into the war-torn Palestinian territory where babies are freezing to death.

ISLAMABAD: The commercialisation of Gwadar Port, built more than a decade ago, remains a non-starter, turning the multi-billion-dollar infrastructure facility into a white elephant instead of becoming a transhipment hub.

QUETTA: Armed gunmen launched a brazen attack on the main bazaar in tehsil Zehri of Khuzdar district on Wednesday morning, setting fire to multiple government build­­ings, including a Levies Force station, Nadra and municipal committee offices and a bank, after seizing control of the area.

• 40 trucks with essential goods reach restive district after three months
• Locals breathe sigh of relief, demand more convoys to facilitate travellers

KARACHI: The government on Wednesday slas­hed the returns on treasury bills by up to 49 basis points and raised much below the staggering amount of bids, reflecting another possibility of an interest rate cut.

ISLAMABAD: The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) has flattened to just Rs148 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year against revised allocation of Rs1.1 trillion amid substantial revenue shortfalls and the government’s tight control over disbursements to meet requirements of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

KARACHI: Four Pakistani banks ranked as the best among the top 10 Asia Pacific lenders in 2024, reported S&P Global Intelligence on Wednesday.

FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is getting the drift. He has spent his 10 months in power trying to ensure he leaves none of his core constituents unhappy.

KARACHI: Despite positive news flows, particularly on the economic front, Pakistani equities continued to bleed for the third straight session as the benchmark KSE 100 index plunged amid a broad-based sell-off on Wednesday.

• Justice Hilali wonders whether May 9 accused fully understood gravity of actions
• Justice Mandokhail says parliament must establish legal forums for specific crimes
• Punjab says prisoners being treated in line with law

IT is unfortunate that, instead of taking ownership of important decisions, our officials usually seem keener to make even the good ones appear to be the result of some unavoidable obligation to the country’s foreign creditors. This constant shifting of responsibility, or rather, blame, to external stakeholders has meant even necessary changes in state-level policy come to be seen publicly as the result of interference by unforgiving and unsympathetic foreign lenders rather than necessary steps... Читать дальше...

• Promises transparency in privatisation of public sector entities
• Attends gong ceremony at PSX, highlights need to sustain momentum
• Opens faceless Customs system at port; launches clinical health manual at AKU

• PTI leaders bemoan ‘monitored’ meeting with party founder; govt says private meeting not possible under rules
• Party agrees to submit written demands; Imran says talks won’t progress without probe into crackdowns
• NA speaker offers to step aside to ensure ‘integrity’ of dialogue after PTI criticism

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