China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong calls on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad. PHOTO: NNI ISLAMABAD: Amid ongoing efforts to break the deadlock in US-Iran peace talks, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday discussed the evolving situation in the Middle East and Pakistan’s diplomatic push for regional peace with Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong, who […]
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Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi. Photo: Supreme Court of Pakistan/ File ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi has opposed the proposed transfer of five judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to other high courts, warning that such a move could undermine judicial independence and set an unwanted precedent. The development follows a
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Sindh is likely to remain hot and dry overall, with temperatures continuing to rise ISLAMABAD: The country is bracing for its first heatwave of the season, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) warning that temperatures in large parts of the country will rise well above seasonal norms from Friday (today) and continue till May 5.
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Terrorists opened indiscriminate fire during the operation, resulting in the death of a 10-year-old child, says ISPR Security forces and law enforcement agencies killed 22 terrorists during a joint intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on April 21, the military’s media wing said on Friday. According to a statement issued by the
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ISLAMABAD: The early warning system installed in Gilgit-Baltistan for protection against Glacial Lake Outbursts (GLOFs) remained inactive. This was revealed during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to review pre-monsoon preparedness and climate-related risks. Noticing it, the prime minister ordered a high-level inquiry into the non-functionality and directed all relevant institutions to expedite
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ISLAMABAD: Questions are once again being raised about growing internal differences within Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after not a single party leader turned up at Adiala jail to meet party founder and jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday. The official session ended without any leader arriving even though the party had sent a list
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ISLAMABAD: The Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) on Thursday finalized its election strategy for the upcoming Gilgit-Baltistan elections and announced candidates for nine seats in the first phase. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the party’s 20-member election board, headed by its president Abdul Aleem Khan, held here to review preparations for the June 7
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ISLAMABAD: The State Department on Thursday rejected what it described as India’s propaganda campaign of “baseless allegations” linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam incident and urged New Delhi to show responsible behavior and refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and actions. The Foreign Office did not specify which statements or allegations it was referring to. However, an Indian
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ISLAMABAD: No sign of the next round of talks between Iran and the US right now. Still, security details remain intact in Islamabad. This suggests that the door to a diplomatic breakthrough, however narrow, is not completely closed, even as uncertainty continues to hang over the next phase of negotiations. “There is no positive move,
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Says the suspension has serious peace, security and humanitarian implications for the region Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad presents a letter from Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar to UN Security Council President Ambassador Jamal Fares Alrowaiei of Bahrain. Photo: X Pakistan on Thursday urged the United Nations to urge India
