Pakistan

For the first time in the province’s history, the Punjab Environment Department has issued a comprehensive environmental compliance report on brick kilns located along the Motorway.

Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari has said that the provincial government is taking concrete measures for the welfare of the people.

On the directive of Prime Minister of Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has dispatched another relief consignment for the people of Palestine.

In a day of high political drama at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, PTI’s Sohail Afridi was elected the province’s new chief minister. However, his victory unfolded amid walkouts, protests, and a deepening constitutional crisis over whether the outgoing CM, Ali Amin Gandapur, had even truly vacated his seat. As chants of “Sohail Afridi zindabad” echoed through the assembly hall, the opposition staged a walkout, declaring the entire process “unconstitutional.” Speaker Babar Saleem Swati, however, pressed ahead and ruled it lawful under Article 130, declaring Afridi’s election valid even as questions swirled over Gandapur’s disputed resignation, returned by Governor Faisal Karim Kundi for having “disparate signatures.” The episode has set off a flurry of debate: can a new chief minister be elected when the previous one still holds office? Lawyers have since weighed in, dissecting whether the assembly’s actions uphold or undermine the constitutional process. An attempt to thwart the will of the many “The opposi...

The price of per tola 24 karat gold reached an all-time high on Monday, rising by Rs 5,500 to Rs 428,200 compared to Rs 422,700 on last day, according to the All Pakistan Sarafa Gems and Jewellers Association.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday, arrived here in Egypt, on a special invitation from U.

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has stressed the need for all institutions to remain fully prepared to tackle natural disasters and protect human lives.

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court has ruled that prisoners convicted under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1997 are not legally entitled to any form of general or special remission or pardon. The court declared that Section 21-F of the ATA explicitly excludes terrorists from eligibility for clemency or sentence reduction, leaving no room for interpretation or relaxation. A two-member bench comprising Justice Muhammad Kamran Khan Mulakhail and Justice Najamuddin Mengal announced the verdict while hearing several constitutional petitions filed in 2023 and 2024, dismissing all of them collectively. According to the judgement, the petitioners had argued that they were entitled to the president’s pardon under Article 45 of the Constitution and to general or special remission under the Pakistan Prison Rules, 1978. However, the court held that the insertion of Section 21-F in 2001 was specifically intended to permanently exclude terrorism convicts from the scope of pardons. The bench noted that the amendment was a ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) nominee, Sohail Afridi, has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after securing 90 votes in the provincial assembly.

KARACHI: A female chimpanzee named Bibi, who had been living in solitary confinement at the zoo for a long time, died on Saturday. Sources said the chimp had been under treatment for months. Speaking to Dawn, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) official Daniyal Sial confirmed her death, saying that “senility” had been declared the cause of death in her post-mortem report. “Bibi has been under treatment for a long time for multiple health complications, mainly resulting from old age,” he said, adding that she was around 40 years old. According to the KMC sources, Bibi was handed over to the zoo after being caught by the police in an operation Bibi was captured after she and her mate had escaped from a PECHS house in 2000; the male chimp was killed in police operation in the year 2000. She, along with her mate, had escaped from a house in the PECHS area where they had been kept illegally as “pets”. “The male chimp had to be killed when it had grabbed a police official while Bibi was captured and brought to t...

The opposition in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly walked out shortly after Monday’s session began to elect a new chief minister, following the resignation of former leader of the house, Ali Amin Gandapur.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Adviser on Information, Barrister Dr Saif, has asserted that the “dream of forming a fake government” in the province will never be realised.

Peshawar Cantonment greeted me Friday with the calm of an old outpost that has seen too many eras pass through.

The Federal Ministry of Interior has convened a high-level meeting today to decide the future of Afghan nationals residing in Pakistan under Proof of Registration (POR) cards.

India’s aviation regulator said on Monday it has asked Air India to inspect the emergency power system, known as the Ram Air Turbine (RAT), on some of its 787 jets. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has also asked Boeing, the maker of these aircraft, to submit a report providing details, including preventive measures at the time of a RAT deployment incident, the regulator said. This comes after the crew of an Air India 787 Dreamliner — which was flying from the northern Indian city of Amritsar to Birmingham, UK — detected deployment of the power system during the final approach, Air India had said in a statement on Sunday. Boeing and Air India did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. In July, Indian investigators had said the RAT had also been deployed during the initial climb before the Air India Boeing 787 crash, which killed 260 people in June.

US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared eager to ease tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan after border skirmishes between the two countries over the weekend, saying he was “good at making peace”. Intense border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan started late on Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that 23 troops were martyred and 200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists were killed when Islamabad responded to aggression by Kabul. The US president, since returning to the White House for his second term in January, had repeatedly insisted in the run up to the Nobel peace prize that he deserved the award for his role in resolving eight conflicts — a claim observers say is broadly exaggerated. The US president touched on the border hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan while speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he flew from Washington to Israel. Tel Aviv and Hamas are set to carry out a hostage-prisoner exchange as part of the ...

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has left for Egypt to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit and signing ceremony of the peace agreement aimed at ending the prevailing grave situation in Gaza.

Peshawar - Tribal elders and local elites have welcomed the decision of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan to nominate Sohail Afridi for the Chief Minister’s position in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

PESHAWAR - The recent unprovoked cross-border firing by Afghan forces on multiple Pakistani checkposts has sparked serious concerns among foreign relations and defense experts, who have termed it a blatant violation of the United Nations (UN) Charter and the Doha Agreement.

Using right of self-defence, Pak Army destroys multiple Afghan posts in retaliatory strikes, briefly capture 21 posts 23 Pak army men martyred, 29 injured in border skirmishes FO says Pak position that Afghan govt facilitating terrorists is vindicated Rein in militants or Pakistan will continue striking.