GUJRAT: A high-ranking government team will be dispatched to Morocco today (Saturday) to assess the situation and ascertain the loss of Pakistani lives in the Atlantic Ocean migrant boat tragedy, which occurred in the waters between Mauritania and Morocco earlier this month. As per reports, 44 out of a total of 65 Pakistani immigrants on board the ship either drowned …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench has raised questions over the future of individuals booked under both civil and military laws, but convicted only under the latter, for their involvement in violence on May 9. The seven-judge bench, headed by Justice Aminud Din Khan, resumed the hearing on a set of intra-court appeals (ICAs) on Friday against the Oct 23, …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Friday announced its intention to challenge the conviction of its jailed founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190 million pound Al-Qadir Trust case, while the government tried to justify the punishment as “just deserts” for the former prime minister. Reacting to the announcement of the verdict on Friday, PTI leaders such …
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Friday acknowledged on the floor of the National Assembly that internet users were facing challenges in Pakistan, but at the same time claimed that presently the internet, VPNs and WhatsApp were fully functional in the country. The minister was responding to the criticism from PPP legislator Shazia …
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) in a meeting, presided over by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, approved the appointment of five additional judges — two in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and three in the Balochistan High Court (BHC) — for one year, on Friday. According to a statement by the JCP, two meetings of the commission — one …
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital’s decades-old sewerage system has almost spent its useful life with the city also facing shortage of water, the Senate was told on Friday. Moreover, the civic agency is short of funds for repair and maintenance of government houses in the capital. These issues were discussed in the upper house of parliament during question hour on Friday. …
In less than 30 days, the 9th Asian Winter Games will kick off in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. Athletes from across Asia will come together in the “city of ice” to pursue their dreams and show their passion for winter sports. It is the third time for China to stage the regional games, following the 1996 Harbin Asian Winter …
At the beginning of the new year, the BRICS cooperation has made new advances. On Jan. 1, 2025, countries including Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Cuba, Bolivia, and Uganda officially became BRICS partner countries; on Jan. 6, Indonesia became a full member of BRICS. The new additions mark the beginning of a new era for greater BRICS cooperation. Serving the common interests of …
As the new year began, a train loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables set off from China’s Yunnan province to the capital of Laos, Vientiane; in many Chinese supermarkets, Lao bananas imported by cold-chain trains via the China-Laos Railway are sold, enriching consumers’ choices. The China-Laos Railway is becoming a “golden corridor” promoting the common development of China and its …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has defended the verdict in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case, describing it as a merit-based decision grounded in the law. Speaking to reporters outside the parliament house on Friday, he said the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) failed to establish his innocence. Flanked by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, the information minister stressed …