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An Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday approved the bail of 153 PTI workers who were arrested on November 26 when law enforcement agencies carried out a crackdown on protesters at Islamabad’s D-Chowk. On November 13, Imran made a “final call” for nationwide protests on November 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate,…
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) finally resumed flights to Europe on Friday, more than a month after EU regulators lifted a four-and-a-half-year ban. A state airline flight, plagued by a history of fatal accidents and a pilot license scandal, took off from Islamabad around 12:40 p.m. bound for Paris. AFP journalists saw, becoming the only airline…
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls’ education organized in Islamabad to promote girls’ education and raise awareness on women’s empowerment. Girls’ education advocate Malala and her friends Kainat and Shazia were attacked by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on October 9, 2012, while returning from school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s…
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will resume direct flights to Paris today (Friday), marking the end of a four-and-a-half-year suspension. The first flight, PK-749, operated by a Boeing 777 (AP-BGK), will depart from Islamabad International Airport (IIAP) at 12:10 p.m., with 330 passengers and 14 crew members. The inaugural flight will be flagged off by…
ISLAMABAD: More than 900 people, including women, were kidnapped and 152 sexually assaulted or abused in the capital in 2024. A police officer told him Sunrise that the police recorded at least 891 cases of kidnapping and 152 cases of rape or unnatural crimes during the year. He said that among the kidnapping victims were…
QUETTA: At least 12 coal miners were trapped inside a mine after an explosion caused by methane gas in the Sanjdi coal field area, about 40 kilometers southeast of Quetta. Coal mine accidents are common in Balochistan, where mine owners ignore safety procedures and miners are forced to work in dangerous conditions. Authorities said the…
ISLAMABAD: South Korean Commerce Minister Inkyo Cheong has outlined an ambitious plan to shift Korea’s industrial base from its Northeast Asian neighbors to Pakistan following the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the two countries . The revelation came during a high-level ceremony in Seoul on Thursday, where Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan…
DURING his recent visit to Karachi, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is said to have highlighted the need to integrate the entire economy through an ‘e-governance’ system. But in a country where stable Internet connectivity is not guaranteed, where communication networks are deliberately compromised to facilitate state spying, and where the government still does business primarily…
In a huge Bangladesh factory packed with sewing machines, textile workers produce seemingly endless pairs of hiking pants for customers in Europe and North America. Bangladesh’s major garment manufacturing industry, which supplies global brands, was crippled by a revolution that toppled the government last year, in which garment protesters played a major role. While owners…
The Afghan Taliban’s foreign ministry said they viewed India as an “important regional and economic partner” after meeting their top foreign ministry official, the highest-level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. India’s Foreign Minister Vikram Misri met acting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry…
