Новости за 27.04.2024

The Supreme Court’s Justice Mansoor Ali Shah on Saturday said that developing a firewall around the judicial system was “very important”, adding that there cannot be any external interference in the judiciary.

Armed men kidnapped a sessions judge on Saturday from the border between Tank and Dera Ismail Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police said.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday to attend the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) special meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy being held on April 28-29.

Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza has expressed discontent with the PTI and its talks with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, calling them a mistake on the former’s part.

The Ministry of Energy’s Power Division (MEPD) on Saturday rubbished reports circulating of an imposition of a fixed tax on solar power installations, according to state-run Radio Pakistan.

US intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin most likely did not order the killing of opposition politician Alexei Navalny at an Arctic prison camp in February, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

A pro-Palestine protester on Saturday interrupted and chanted slogans during the German ambassador’s speech on civil rights at a conference in Lahore.

The arrest warrant against Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai was suspended on Saturday by a judicial magistrate in Quetta.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will depart for Saudi Arabia on Saturday to attend the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) special meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy being held on April 28-29, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.

KARACHI: West Indies women stunned Pakistan as they edged the hosts by one in a last-ball thriller here at the National Bank Stadium on Friday.

A HANDOUT photo issued by the royal household on Friday shows Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the garden of Buckingham Palace, on April 10. The image was taken the day after their 19th wedding anniversary.—AFP

LONDON: Britain’s King Charles is set to return to public duties next week. This is a first-ever since he was diagnosed with cancer, as he makes good progress following treatment and a period of recuperation, the Buckingham Palace stated on Friday.

WASHINGTON: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan postponed a White House meeting with President Joe Biden, a source familiar with the situation and a Turkish official said on Friday of a visit that had been tentatively planned for May 9.

QUETTA: Like other parts of the country, workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), including female supporters, staged a protest in Quetta on Friday against alleged rigging in the February 8 general elections and the arrest of party’s founder Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Friday committed to safeguarding government-owned assets and properties, including those under the Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (QMC) and other local bodies, valued at billions of rupees.

QUETTA: The government has sacked 28 members of the Levies Force, including a naib resaldar, five constables and 22 soldiers, for neglecting their assigned duties during the re-polling in the provincial constituency PB-9 in Kohlu district.

QUETTA: A judicial magistrate on Friday issued arrest warrant for Mahmood Khan Achakzai, chairman of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party who had contested the presidential election as candidate of opposition parties, for not appearing in a case pertaining to illegal occupation of government land and alleged interference in the duty of government officials.

• Opposition leaders accuse interior minister of ‘perpetuating political victimisation’
• Speaker expels official from gallery; admonishes bureaucrats for ‘not taking parliament seriously’

LONDON: Scotland’s First Mini­s­ter Humza Yousaf said he intended to fight a vote of no confidence called by political opponents following his decision to withdraw from a coalition agreement and try to run a minority government.

NEW DELHI: The second phase of Indian elections on Friday saw 88 constituencies in the fray, including Rahul Gandhi’s contest in communist-ruled Kerala.

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has clubbed a set of ten petitions and applications seeking the court’s intervention in response to allegations of “intelligence agencies’ meddling in judicial affairs”, which were highlighted following a March 25 letter by six Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges.

RAFAH: Relatives gathered by a tiny sandy grave in Gaza on Friday, where they had buried a baby girl who lived just a few days after doctors delivered her from the womb of her dying mother following an Israeli airstrike. The child, dubbed the “miracle baby”, had been given the names Sabreen, after her dead mother, and Rouh, which means “soul”.

WASHINGTON: A pro-Palestinian US group filed a federal civil rights complaint against Columbia University following last week’s mass arrest of anti-war protesters after the school called police to clear demonstrator encampments, the group said on Thursday.

TEL AVIV: A young woman was stabbed and her attacker killed near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday, while the country’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was injured in a car crash as he returned from addressing journalists at the scene, officials said.

JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA: A wounded world champion roared back on Friday, Francesco Bagnaia lowering his own lap record in practice at Jerez for this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP.

LAHORE: The upcoming T20 World Cup remains Pakistan focus despite their loss to a depleted New Zealand side in the fourth Twenty20 International here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday.