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• Sit-ins over Parachinar murders spread to other cities in Sindh• MWM leader holds the government responsible for any inconvenience to the people• Says there is no Shia-Sunni conflict in Kurram KARACHI: As multiple sit-ins organized at the request of the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) to protest the killings in Parachinar continued in the metropolis for…
Mourners in India’s capital gathered Saturday to pay their respects to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of the state funeral of the key man in the country’s economic liberalization. Singh, who held the position from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 on Thursday, following which seven days of state mourning were…
ISLAMABAD: A citizen missing since March is in military custody, the Defense Ministry told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday. Mudassar Khan, who allegedly went missing from Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, is facing trial, according to the ministry report, without giving any details about the charges the accused faces. The report was submitted…
WHILE the terms of reference for opening a formal dialogue between the PTI and the government are yet to be decided, the opposition should reconsider its January 31 deadline for the conclusion of talks. The deadline was made public by PTI politicians after their meeting with their jailed leader Imran Khan on Thursday, apparently even…
• The president is expected to introduce an ordinance next week after the cabinet approves changes to the stalled seminary registration law.• Cabinet gives green light to carbon markets policy to pave the way for voluntary markets and cooperative approaches. ISLAMABAD: The government approved two key steps during Friday’s federal cabinet meeting, paving the way…
Osamu Suzuki, a resourceful tightwad who ran Japan’s Suzuki Motor for more than four decades and played a key role in turning India into a booming automobile market, has died at the age of 94. He died on Christmas Day of lymphoma, said the company, which he ambitiously steered, during his tenure as CEO or…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday reiterated his call for improved relations with Afghanistan, but stressed that the administration in Kabul must first rein in Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been strained due to frequent border skirmishes and Islamabad has repeatedly demanded Kabul take action against the banned TTP for using…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Friday that its Parker solar probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest approach to the Sun of any man-made object. The spacecraft passed just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24, flying into the Sun’s outer atmosphere…
The religious political party Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) on Thursday night expanded its ongoing metropolis-wide sit-in against the Parachinar killings by blocking almost all major arteries, according to officials, witnesses and organizers. Protesters are protesting an incident in which two people were killed and then beheaded after being assaulted on their way to Parachinar in Bagan…
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved the lower house of Germany’s parliament to pave the way for early elections on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition. “Especially in difficult times, like now, stability requires a government capable of acting and reliable majorities in parliament,” so early elections were the right…