BAKU: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif highlighted on Wednesday that financial pledges made at the previous two United Nations’ annual climate summits — COP27 and COP28 — were yet to materialise. He made the remarks during the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, that is being held in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku. The premier presented Pakistan’s case …
ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government on Wednesday approved a grant worth $18.5 million for the construction of three embankments on the Indus River in Haripur district and rain metres at 45 sites along the river in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab for effective flood management. In 2022, Pakistan witnessed the worst floods in its history, which claimed 1,700 lives, destroyed homes and …
ISLAMABAD: PTI founder Imran Khan has issued a “final call” for a protest in Islamabad on November 24, denouncing what he described as the “stolen mandate”, the “unjust arrests” of people, and the government’s push to pass the 26th constitutional amendment bill last month, it emerged on Wednesday. Since his arrest in August 2023 on several counts, Imran’s party has …
ISLAMABAD: Tremors were felt in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad on Wednesday after a quake jolted Afghanistan’s Badakhshan region. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1, while the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) reported it as having a 5.3 magnitude. The USGS said the quake’s centre was located 37 …
KARACHI: At a time when cities across Punjab are facing the worst air pollution in their history, two members of the ruling coalition on Tuesday made “insensitive” jibes over the issue in their posts on social media. In his post on X, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari shared a chart of the air quality index readings of Pakistan’s major cities on …
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday disposed of pre-arrest bail petitions of eight PTI activists in the case regarding an attack on the Lahore corps commander’s residence after police declared them innocent in the investigation. ATC-I Judge Manzer Ali Gill was hearing the bail petitions of 32 activists when a prosecutor stated that a joint investigation team (JIT), formed …
ISLAMABAD: The ECP on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a reference seeking the disqualification of PML-N lawmaker Adil Bazai. A three-member bench of the commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja heard the case. Bazai’s counsel maintained that he had never joined the PML-N and asserted that a fake affidavit had been submitted in his name with the …
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday remanded two suspects, including the alleged mastermind of a suicide bombing near Karachi airport that killed two Chinese nationals and a Pakistani citizen, in police custody for 10 days. On Tuesday, suspects Javed and his female aide, Gul Nisa, said to be associated with the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), were brought to …
PESHAWAR: A suspect who was allegedly involved in the 2023 blast at Peshawar Police Lines mosque, that claimed 84 lives, was arrested a day earlier and has been identified as police constable Muhammad Wali, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police (IG) Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur revealed in a press briefing on Tuesday. On Jan 30, 2023, a powerful explosion …
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Pakistan mission chief Nathan Porter met with Finance Minister Mohammad Aurangzeb in Islamabad on Tuesday to discuss the $7 billion loan performance, a statement from the Finance Ministry said. The meeting comes a day after the opening of an unplanned official visit of the IMF to the country, led by Porter. The unscheduled visit …