Beggar: The Counter-Terrorism Department has claimed to have killed two terrorists who entered Punjab from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in an exchange of fire. According to CTD, when the security agencies and anti-terrorism department officials signaled the terrorists to stop near Bhakkar, they fired indiscriminately. On which the police personnel immediately retaliated and as a result both…
Peshawar: Local body representatives announced a protest for not getting powers. A meeting of the Provincial Action Council Local Councils Association was held to deliberate on the non-transfer of local government powers, in which village and neighborhood council members of Tehreek-e-Insaaf along with the Mayor of Mardan participated. Addressing the meeting, Mayor Mardan Bakhtullah Mayar…
Islamabad: A major decision has been taken regarding the judge who sentenced founder PTI and Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case. According to the sources, the Islamabad High Court has decided to send the special court judge Abulhasnat Zulqarnain back to his respective department. Special Courts Inspection Judge Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani sent a…
Karachi: Sindh High Court rejected 48 petitions related to regularization of thousands of employees of Sui Southern Gas Company. A three-member bench headed by Justice Yusuf Ali Saeed heard the petitions related to the regularization of employees of Sui Southern Gas. Among those who filed the petition are 3350 non-permanent employees of SSGC. Shuaa-ul-Nabi Advocate,…
The judges who wrote the letter to the Supreme Judicial Council also participated in the full court session—File: Photo Islamabad: In the full court meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Islamabad High Court Justice Aamir Farooq, the suggestions given on the letter issue of 6 judges were considered while all the complaining judges…
Late Lower: A 37-year-old woman who came from Saudi Arabia went missing with a 22-year-old youth, Ahad, on the request of the Saudi government, the Prime Minister took notice and issued an order to retrieve her. According to Express News, a 37-year-old woman who came from Saudi Arabia to visit a friend in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s…
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini briefed journalists in New York a day after the independent review panel published its findings. Former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna spearheaded the report, which found that UNRWA has put in place a large number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure its commitment to the principle of neutrality and outlines some 50…
The Climate Promise 2025 aims to accelerate efforts from local to international levels to take more ambitious steps to ensure the global temperature does not heat up beyond the 1.5° limit, a goal set with the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the initiative, driven by the UN Development Programme (UNDP),…
“Until they are released, we will not be able to conduct many of our activities in support of the communities in need across the country,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Tuesday. He said that UN colleagues in South Sudan say fuel reserves are being depleted which leaves them in a critical situation that prevents…
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a joint statement calling on the UK Government to reconsider its plan to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda. This arrangement seeks to shift responsibility for refugee protection, undermining international cooperation, Mr. Grandi added. “The new legislation marks…
