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MANSEHRA: Deputy Inspector General of Hazara Range Police Nasir Mehmood Satti on Friday visited the Balakot hydropower project site here and assured Chinese engineers and workers of its foolproof safety. “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police has been taking all possible measures to ensure your foolproof security so that you can work with complete peace of mind,” the…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police on Friday detained nearly 200 migrants “believed to be Rohingya” from Myanmar after their boat ran aground on the northern resort island of Langkawi. The group is made up of 68 men, 57 women, 32 boys and 39 girls, police said. “All those detained are believed to be from the Rohingya…
ISLAMABAD: Services exports grew by 6.51 percent to $675.69 million in November 2024, up from $634.39 million in the corresponding month last year. Growth has returned since February 2024 thanks to a steady increase in information technology exports, except in August, which saw a 6.5 percent contraction. In rupee terms, exports improved by 3.63 per…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson was re-elected Friday to the chamber’s top job by a narrow margin that highlighted potential fissures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans on Capitol Hill. Johnson initially appeared to fall short of the majority he needed to keep his job in a roll-call vote that lasted nearly two hours,…
ISLAMABAD: An opposition alliance on Friday attacked the ruling government over the current state of governance in Pakistan, accusing the ruling authorities of undermining democracy, the Constitution and the rights of the people. “It is forbidden to write the truth and it is forbidden to tell the truth, even in the assembly,” Mahmood Khan Achakzai,…
Urfan Sharif, who was jailed last month for the murder of his 10-year-old daughter, Sara Sharif, has been attacked in Belmarsh prison. News from heaven reported today. On December 17, Urfán and Sara’s stepmother were sentenced to 40 and 33 years in prison, respectively, for her murder after a trial in which harrowing details of…
The Punjab Environmental Protection Department has intensified its fight against illegal use of plastic, confiscating 40 tonnes of plastic since June last year. Radio Pakistan reported on Friday. Plastic waste remains a pressing problem in Pakistan, where more than 3.9 million tonnes of plastic is generated annually, and much of it is inadequately managed. In…
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accuses its digital assistant Siri of listening to users’ private conversations. The proposed settlement detailed in a court filing accessed Thursday came with Apple firmly maintaining that it did nothing wrong. “Apple has at all times denied and continues to deny any and…
Dutch police said on Friday they had arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting three people in the port city of Rotterdam in an apparently random spree over two weeks. The series of murders has instilled fear among local residents and made front-page news in the Netherlands, where gun violence is often linked to organized…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said the government was committed to eliminating the banned group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to ensure socio-economic development of the country. Pakistan has recently witnessed a rise in terrorist activities, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Terrorist attacks have increased since the TTP broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the…