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Syria’s new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists of ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said on Sunday. Since rebels led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group overthrew Assad three weeks ago, ending more than five decades of family rule, new…
PPP leader Hassan Murtaza said on Sunday that unless the PML-N eases the PPP’s reservations and includes them in policymaking, their coalition “will not survive.” There have been tensions between the PPP and the ruling PML-N, and Ali Haider Gilani, parliamentary leader of the PPP in the Punjab Assembly, said Sunrise in June that despite…
The controversy surrounding the Companies Registration (Amendment) Act, 2024 came to an end on Sunday when President Asif Ali Zardari signed it into law. Controversy persisted in the country related to the new law passed by parliament relating to regulatory affairs of madresahs. The law referred to the registration of seminaries by the relevant deputy…
The Karachi Commissionerate has issued a notification to impose Section 144 for a period of 48 hours from December 31, it was learned on Sunday. On New Year’s Eve in Karachi, citizens conduct aerial firing and use fireworks that have caused injuries in the past. On December 31, 2023, then commissioner Muhammad Saleem Rajput imposed…
Activists and leaders of the main religious political party, Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM), have said they will continue sit-ins across Karachi after talks with police and city officials collapsed on Sunday. The six-day sit-ins blocked major roads to protest the Parachinar killings, demanding measures including the reopening of a road in Parachinar, closed for 90 days,…
Iranian security forces arrested a person allegedly linked to a suicide bombing that killed a police commander, state media reported Sunday, after the rare attack in Hormozgan province. The attack took place on Saturday in the southern coastal city of Bandar-i-Lengeh, Iranian media reported. On Sunday, the separatist group Ansar al-Furqan claimed credit for the…
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday accused Russia of shooting at an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger plane before it crashed and of initially trying to cover up the cause of the fatal disaster, demanding that Moscow admit its guilt. Aliyev made the allegation in an interview with state media at Baku airport, four days after…
PPP leader Naveed Qamar on Sunday said approval from top leaders of political parties is always required for negotiations, adding that it remains to be seen how PTI founder Imran Khan’s views will be incorporated into the negotiations. ongoing talks between the PTI and the government. Since Imran’s imprisonment last year due to several cases,…
At least 179 people were killed when a plane landed upside down and skidded off the runway, exploding in a fireball that crashed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday. Yonhap reported. Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land…
South Africa came within 32 runs of winning the first Test, while Pakistan needed just two wickets to succeed as the competition headed to a thrilling finish on the fourth day at Centurion on Sunday. Mohammad Abbas took Pakistan to the brink of an extraordinary victory by taking four wickets in a marathon spell of…