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As distrust runs high in Pakistan’s relations with the Afghan Taliban, rulers in Kabul are reaching out to regional states to break their isolation and deepen economic ties. While no one has formally recognized the Taliban regime, states are doing business with Kabul on the verge of achieving recognition. In a significant development, the Taliban…
• Justice Mandokhail wonders how much experience presidents have in meting out harsh punishments.• Justice Hilali asks how military courts assumed jurisdiction when FIRs were lodged under PPC, ATA• The government explains that it charged only 105 people under OSA, PAA based on “strong evidence” in 9 cases in May. ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge…
Massive wildfires that swept through entire neighborhoods and displaced thousands of people in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California National Guard soldiers prepared to take to the streets to help quell the fire. disorder. News of the rising toll, announced Thursday night by the Los Angeles County medical examiner,…
The Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin was open to talks with Donald Trump after the incoming US president said a meeting between the two was being arranged. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has said he can quickly end the nearly three-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine, without presenting a concrete…
User posts on social media platforms on Thursday shared an image claiming that incoming US official Richard Grenell called for the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Asim Munir. However, the image was edited; The original post did not mention the army chief, but instead referred to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Grenell, Trump’s…
The bodies of four miners were recovered on Friday during a rescue operation near a coal mine in Quetta after a dozen miners were trapped there following an explosion a day ago, rescuers said. Deputy Rescue Director Asghar Ali Jamali said: “The bodies of four of the 12 miners have been recovered.” Chief Inspector of…
The State Bank of Pakistan said on Friday that remittances from overseas Pakistanis recorded inflows of $3.1 billion in December, which Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hailed as a “record increase.” A statement issued today said the growth in workers’ remittances was 29.3 percent compared to the same month last year and an increase of 5.6…
An official Palestinian count of direct deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas likely underestimated the number of casualties by around 40 percent in the first nine months of fighting as the Gaza Strip’s health infrastructure crumbled, according to a published study. on Thursday. The peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in the lancet The journal…
US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine for his criminal conviction stemming from money paid to a porn star for her silence, a judge ruled Friday, but the sentence will place a guilty verdict. in your history. Judge Juan Merchán’s sentence to the unconditional freedom of Trump, 78, closes…
It was, in many ways, a trial like New York had definitely seen before: a panel of citizen jurors finding a real estate mogul guilty of business fraud. But it was anything but ordinary because when it comes to Donald Trump, the average routinely becomes surreal. His criminal sentence following a conviction on 34 felony…