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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…

Pakistani snooker Mohammad Asif won the third SAARC Snooker Championship in Colombo on Friday, according to the state broadcaster. Radio Pakistan reported. He added that, with an “impeccable performance”, he defeated Sri Lanka’s Thaha Irshath in the final with a “resounding” 5-0 victory, without losing a single frame throughout the match. The report said the…

Five terrorists were killed in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday, according to the army’s media wing. A statement issued today by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security forces carried out an IBO in DI Khan’s general Maddi area over the “reported presence” of terrorists. He said…

As the death toll from the wildfires ravaging California rose, scientists confirmed Friday that the world just experienced the first year in which temperatures rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. The milestone was confirmed by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which said climate change is raising the planet’s temperature…

Three civilians were injured in the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) targeting a truck carrying Frontier Corps (FC) personnel on Friday in Chaman town, Balochistan, according to police. A statement by Rabia Tariq, public relations officer of Balochistan police inspector general’s office, said a motorcycle IED blast targeted an FC truck transporting personnel…

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,…

Judge Naeem Akhter Afghan commented on Friday that trials in a military court were “similar” to those in a civilian court, as a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court heard a case on military trials of civilians over the May 9 riots. last year. The case concerns the military trials (and recent sentences) of civilians…