Southwest China’s Yunnan Province is the largest coffee producing area in the country, accounting for 98 percent of the national total production of coffee. In Pu’er city, large-scale coffee cultivation has a history of nearly 40 years. Jin Tao is a local in Paliang village, Mengma township, Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County, Pu’er city. In the 2023-2024 harvest …
Flocks of terns recently gathered at an embankment along the Island Ring East Road in Siming district, Xiamen city, southeast China’s Fujian Province, creating a beautiful sight against the backdrop of the blue sea and sky. According to a staff member from the city’s natural resources and planning bureau, the flocks consist of six species of terns, including the greater …
ISLAMABAD: Anti-Terrorism Special Court-1 Islamabad JudgeAbdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain on Saturday rejected the police request for 10 days of physical custody of PTI’s leader and activists, arrested on Friday and sent them to jail on judicial remand. The Kohsar police produced the accused in the court of Judge Abdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain with request that they snatched anti-riot shield kit …
NEW YORK: Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first in their final game of the T20 World Cup after the Green Shirts were knocked out in the group stages of the mega event. Pakistan, the 2009 champions and runners-up in 2007 and 2022, lost their first two Group A fixtures. A stunning super-over humiliation at the hands of the United States was …
MANSEHRA: The Jamiat Ulema-Islam-F on Saturday alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was spreading false propaganda against its ideology and central leadership. “The electoral defeat of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and the victory of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf nominee Shahzada Gustasab Khan in the NA-15 constituency is the result of our political strategy,” JUI-F leader Mufti Kifayatullahtold reporters here. Accompanied by other …
LAHORE: A state prosecutor on Saturday said in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) that the attack on the Jinnah House, which also serves as the residence of Lahore’s corps commander, was carried out as part of an organised conspiracy. Special Prosecutor Rao Abdul Jabbar argued that the attack on the Jinnah House on May 9 was a serious crime. He concluded his arguments …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was moved by a private citizen on Saturday against the dismissal of his petition seeking ex-premier Imran Khan’s disqualification for allegedly concealing his daughter Tyrian Khan White in the nomination papers for 2018 general elections. The petitioner, Mohammad Sajid, through his counsel Saad Mumtaz Hashmi, pleaded that the full bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that dismissed his petition …
KARACHI: Amid raging controversy in the country over the establishment’s alleged attempts to pressurise the judiciary, Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi on Saturday said he was not pressured in any such way. Responding to a reporter’s question during an event in Karachi, CJ Abbasi said: “I have been a judge for 15 years and there …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that government departments and institutions incurring billions in losses to the nation and the exchequer would be shut down once a committee finished its review of the matter. In an address to the nation today, the prime minister said it was the first duty of the government to reduce lavish expenses and …
SAUDI ARABIA: More than 1.5 million Muslims braved extreme heat to reach Mount Arafat on Saturday for the high point of the annual Haj pilgrimage, praying for hours, especially for Palestinians in conflict-ridden Gaza. Clad in white, worshippers began arriving at dawn for the most gruelling day of the annual rites, ascending the rocky, 70-metre hill where Prophet Muhammad (Peace …