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PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that if the top leaders of the three main political parties (PTI, PML-N and PPP) met to negotiate, the crisis in which the country has been embroiled for 70 years would be resolved within a period of 70 years. 70 days. Since the imprisonment of Imran Khan last…
Germany said on Saturday that the alleged sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia this week was a “wake-up call” calling for new EU sanctions against Russia’s “shadow fleet.” The Estlink 2 cable carrying electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid on Wednesday, just over a month after two…
As sit-ins continued across the country on Saturday against the killings in Parachinar in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, traffic obstacles persisted for residents of Karachi, where the protests entered their fifth day. The religious political party Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) had called for protests throughout the country to express its solidarity with the people of…
India on Saturday granted former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, a state funeral with full military honors, including a gun salute. Singh, who held the position from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 on Thursday, following which seven days of…
• 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…