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THE HAGUE: Member states of the International Criminal Court voted on Friday to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct. Eighty-two of the court’s 125 member states voted in favour of the prosecutor’s removal. Khan, 56, denies any wrongdoing and his lawyer said he will challenge his dismissal. “Mr Khan will challenge the lawfulness and fairness of the decision through all available legal mechanisms,” lawyer Tayab Ali wrote on X. Khan’s dismissal follows an announcement by the United States that it will launch a renewed diplomatic campaign to dismantle the ICC, which it says is a threat to its sovereignty. Diplomats running the court’s oversight body decided last month that the British barrister had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior ICC lawyer and should be fired. Member states largely followed that conclusion in a vote at the United Nations in New York on Friday. During a visit to the Philippines on Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there wer...

ISLAMABAD: In a first, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday awarded DHA City, located on M-9 motorway, two parallel licences for electricity distribution and supplier of last resort (SoLR) for a period of 21 years. This is the first of its kind move under which a privately owned entity — DHA Energy Supply Company (Desco) — got licences to have both responsibilities of distribution of electricity and the supplier of last resort under the revised Nepra regime for competitive trading bilateral contract market (CTBCM) other than legacy utility distributors and SoLRs like ex-Wapda distribution companies and K-Electric. Initially, Desco’s jurisdiction for the distribution licence would be in DHA City Karachi (DHACK), located about 56 kilometres from Karachi city in district Malir. In its application, Desco reported that there was no infrastructure that may connect it to the national grid or KE network and the only source of supply available nearby was that of the Lucky Cement Limited w...

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RAWALPINDI: A nurse was booked by police for mistakenly chopping off the thumb of a newborn baby girl in the nursery ward of Rawalpindi Holy Family Hospital. Police investigating the incident said efforts were underway to trace and investigate the accused nurse, who had not been available so far. They said the exact circumstances in which the child’s thumb was cut off would be known after the investigation. Qasir Mehmood, the father of the child and a resident of Hassan Abdal, lodged an FIR with New Town police, stating that his 23-day-old daughter had been admitted to the Holy Family Hospital’s nursery ward for treatment after being born at the hospital. He said that when he visited his daughter on Thursday evening, he found that her right thumb had been cut off. After he inquired from the doctor, he was told that a nurse had mistakenly cut off the child’s thumb during treatment in the nursery ward. The doctor informed him that the hospital would conduct an inquiry and let him know what had happened, he stat...

PAKISTAN’S economic debate is trapped in outdated vocabulary. Each time the rupee weakens, headlines scream ‘devaluation’. Anchors ask whether one is imminent, while policymakers debate whether the exchange rate should be defended or strengthened. as if it was simply another policy tool. It’s not. The language belongs to another era. Today, most countries let their currencies move more freely. When an economy gets dangerously out of balance, the currency has to adjust to avoid a more disruptive crisis, as our own history has shown. The exchange rate is not an administrative decision. It is the market price of one country’s currency in terms of another. This price is shaped by domestic inflation relative to that of the country’ trading partners and the accompanying interest-rate differentials, productivity, government spending more than it earns, external balances, capital flows, adequacy of foreign currency reserves and, above all, expectations of what businesses think will happen to the economy in the future...

SINCE early this month, Balochistan has been reeling from a series of dastardly terror attacks. The nexus of ideologically different banned terrorist groups — the religiously motivated extremists of the TTP and BLA terrorists — poses a grave challenge. The current spate of violence started on July 5, when terrorists managed to reach the fertile Shaban area next to Hanna-Urak in the suburbs of Quetta cantonment, and then launched another attack the next day on the Mangi Dam Ziarat police post at the pumping station. Despite a valiant fight put up by a DSP and 40 policemen, the terrorists, who had attacked in a large numbers, kidnapped and killed 27 ammunition-deficient law-enforcement personnel. Timely reinforcements by the police and FC could have prevented this tragedy. Meanwhile, an FC convoy was attacked near Khad Kucha, district Mastung, resulting in casualties. In addition, a military contingent in unmarked vehicles was attacked at Bela-Vinder by the BLA’s Majeed Brigade, resulting in casualties in doubl...

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THE brutal slaying of a judge and his guard in Mastung is the latest in a series of blood-drenched events that have rocked Balochistan since the start of this month. Both state functionaries and ordinary citizens have been killed in these acts of terrorism. Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar was travelling from Quetta to Mastung with another judge and security personnel when their vehicle came under attack. The judge and his guard Muhammad Zaman did not survive. Some unverified reports indicate the IS-K claimed responsibility for the assault. IS-K has been active in the province for some years, and if its role is confirmed, it would mean it is expanding its targets. Before the judge’s martyrdom there was the Mangi Dam attack, claimed by the banned TTP, as well as a deadly assault on a Karachi-bound bus in the Khud Kocha area, and the killing of workers originally hailing from Punjab in Mashkhel. The recent wave of violence indicates the complexity of the threat in Balochistan, where terrorists belonging to different id...

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ISLAMABAD: As efforts continue to prevent the conflict in the Gulf from widening, Iran on Friday called for expanding strategic cooperation with Pakistan, describing Islamabad’s diplomatic engagement as an important contribution to regional peace and stability. “Pakistan has played a constructive diplomatic role in facilitating negotiations and advancing efforts towards regional peace and stability,” Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam said while delivering the keynote address at a roundtable discussion, organised by the Centre for International Strategic Studies. “Strengthening our bilateral cooperation is essential for addressing contemporary security challenges in West Asia,” he said. The discussion, titled Pakistan-Iran Relations and Strategic Stab­i­lity in West Asia, brought together diplomats, academics, defence analysts and researchers to examine the future trajectory of Pakistan-Iran relations against the backdrop of an increasingly volatile regional security environment. Opening the di...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and CDF Field Marshal Asim Munir jointly inaugurate the Sky47 AI Cloud centre.—APP • Says interim Afghan govt has failed to prevent its territory from being used for attacks against Pakistan • Announces Rs300bn Karachi-Chaman dual carriageway, expansion of education, infrastructure and solar projects in Balochistan • Inaugurates Sky47 AI Cloud facility in federal capital ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Sheh­­baz Sharif on Friday again urg­ed Afghanistan to take action agai­nst terrorist organisations and ensu­­re that Afghan soil was not used for terrorist activities against Pakistan. “Pakistan shares over 2,600-kilometre border with its neighbour and has repeatedly urged the Afghan authorities to act against terrorist organisations and prevent Afghan territory from being used against Pakistan. However, the Afghan interim government has failed to take effective action against these groups,” the prime minister said while addressing the National Workshop on Balochistan. The prime ministe...