Новости за 25.04.2024

Balochistan Assembly Speaker Abdul Khaliq Achakzai was reinstated on Thursday after the Supreme Court annulled the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) orders to suspend him.

PPP Senator Sherry Rehman on Thursday said that although her party had offered the PTI to form the government together, the latter did not “take the responsibility”.

Pakistan has assailed the US 2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices as lacking objectivity and politicising the issue of human rights, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday.

Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary in the southwest of the state of Western Australia.

Security forces killed three terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, the military’s media wing said on Thursday.

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned the 2020 sex crime conviction of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in the case that helped trigger the MeToo movement.

India’s Election Commission said on Thursday it sought responses from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress on alleged violations of poll rules by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered private entities and government authorities, provincial and federal, to remove all encroachments made on pavements for security purposes within three days.

Amidst the controversy over alleged interference by intelligence in judicial affairs, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday said he had received no complaints of meddling during his tenure so far as the country’s top judge.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has rejected PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan’s claims that former premier Imran Khan was being pressured to accept a ‘deal’.

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is accusing Apple of using “illegally exploited” minerals extracted from the country’s embattled east in its products, lawyers representing the African country said on Thursday.

Former Pakistan Women’s captain Bismah Maroof has announced her retirement “from all cricket with immediate effect”, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a press release on Thursday.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday suspended till May 6 a recent city administration notification that had reduced the prices of roti.

ISLAMABAD: The Isla­mabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the absence of the investigation officer during the hearing on the petition seeking post-arrest bail for former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in a £190 million corruption case.

Since February 17, 2024, X [formerly Twitter] has been inaccessible in Pakistan without a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with the exception of the random instances when it works without one. It was not until a month into this disruption that the government came clean that there was in fact, officially, a ban in place. However, at the time, Information Minister Atta Tarrar contended there was no notification.

MADRID: Spain’s Rafael Nadal said on Wednesday that he is not sure if he will be able to play at next month’s French Open after pushing through the pain barrier in his comeback from injury.

GUJRAT: A 60-year-old woman patient died and at least a dozen other persons, including eight patients, were injured when a cantilever in the surgical ward collapsed at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH) here on Wednesday.

• Premier asked to forge trade ties with India, reconcile with Imran for ‘political stability’
• Industrialists concerned by ‘cross-subsidies’, call for fair energy tariffs
• Warn rising costs would help competitors take over Pakistan’s export orders

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has accepted another plea against the PTI’s intra-party elections, sources told Dawn on Wednesday.

GAZA STRIP: Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of comparative calm, and Israel said it was moving forward with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah in the south.

• Wheat policy comes under severe criticism in National Assembly
• PTI members stage noisy protest over alleged maltreatment of Bushra Bibi
• Govt, opposition agree on distribution of standing committees

QUETTA: Two workers died after inhaling poisonous gas while working deep inside a coal mine in Duki district of Balochistan on Wednesday.

LAHORE: Pakistan will soon start exporting dairy products to China through a state-of-the-art farm developed in Sheikhupura, says Punjab Livestock Secretary Masaud Anwar.

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday approved a Rs392 billion investment plan for K-Electric’s transmission and distribution network to reduce system losses and meet demand growth over the next seven years.

KARACHI: MCB Bank on Wednesday reported a 27 per cent increase in its profit-after-tax (PAT) to Rs16.6 billion translating into earnings per share (EPS) of Rs13.97 in the first quarter of the current calendar 2024.