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LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday granted police custody of four suspects, including the relative of a senior political figure, for another five days in the alleged abduction and rape case involving two foreign women. The suspects were produced before the magistrate at the Cantonment Courts following the expiry of the five-day physical remand granted earlier. During the hearing, the prosecution sought an extension of the remand, informing the court that the suspects’ DNA and fingerprint tests had been conducted. A prosecutor told the court that the police still needed to recover the vehicle allegedly used in the crime, along with a laptop, cash and weapons believed to be linked to the case. Advocate Salman Shahid, the counsel for two of the suspects, opposed the request for further physical remand, arguing that his clients had no connection with the alleged offences. The counsel stated that, according to the police’s own version, the matter was not one of rape or abduction but was related to a crypto...

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QUETTA: The Ziarat superintendent of police (SP) has been suspended following a terrorist attack on the Mangi Dam police post, it emerged on Wednesday. On Tuesday, at least nine police officials, including two station house officers, embraced martyrdom in the attack, while 15 alleged terrorists were killed in a clearance operation after the attack. Balochistan chief minister’s aide for media and political affairs Shahid Rind, confirmed the SP’s suspension to Dawn and said that the government had issued a notification in this regard. Separately, the provincial government also constituted a four-member inquiry committee to probe the incident. According to a notification dated July 7 and available with Dawn, the committee was tasked with establishing the “complete sequence of events leading to, during and after the terrorist attack”. The committee will also ascertain the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident and evaluate the deployment, preparedness, response, command, control and coordination of all ...

The morning sun beats down on Antonio Reina as he tends to a public garden in Barcelona, but he works reassured that a simple wristband protects him in the summer heat. The device contains a sensor that detects body temperature. If Reina gets dangerously hot at the risk of making a potentially deadly heatstroke likelier, a red light and a sound raise the alarm. “It’s an extra layer of security. As it’s supposed to go off before you have symptoms, it lets you leave wherever your place of work is, drink water, and get under the shade,” Reina, 54, told AFP. A picture taken on July 6, 2026 in Barcelona shows a gardener’s wristband containing a sensor that detects body temperature. — AFP The wristbands exemplify how Spain, a country long familiar with high temperatures, is adapting the world of work as climate change makes extreme heat spells more intense, frequent and longer. The issue has taken on greater urgency in Europe after last month’s exceptional heatwave sent temperature records tumbling, was linked to t...

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CHAKWAL: A new twist has emerged in the killing of nine-year-old Hania Ahmed as her father claimed that the robbers did not resort to shooting; rather, the incident occurred due to direct firing by a cop of the Crime Control Department (CCD). Hania, an Australian citizen visiting Pakistan, was killed on the spot on the night of June 10 in Chakwal city during a robbery incident due to firing by a CCD official. Her father, Adeel Ahmed, and her 11-year-old brother Affan were seriously injured, while her mother Dr Sidra Khan remained unhurt. The incident sparked international concern. Admitting the CCD’s mistake, the Punjab police and the department have described the incident as a case of “criminal negligence”. In an application submitted to District Police Officer Kashif Zulfiqar on Tuesday, Adeel alleged that City Police Sub-Inspector Ahsan Abdullah misrepresented the incident in the first information report (FIR) by mentioning that robbers opened fire. In the application, a copy of which is available with Daw...

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An international operation against Indian organised crime groups has led to 24 arrests, US officials said on Tuesday, including in connection with the assassination in Canada of a prominent Sikh figure. The sting involved law enforcement officials operating in the United States, Canada and Europe, who had together been probing crime syndicates that engage in racketeering, targeted killings, shootings, extortion and drug trafficking. Dozens of people have been charged, including two who US officials say ran their global criminal syndicates while in prison in India. All but 10 of them are now in custody. “Transnational criminal gangs who spread fear, drugs, and violence will face the full force of justice and the weight of the federal government,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. Among the crimes alleged in indictments unveiled Tuesday is the 2023 killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent campaigner for “Khalistan” —a separatist movement that seeks an independent hom...

Oil prices gained more than 2 per cent on Wednesday after the US military launched airstrikes against Iran and reimposed crude sales sanctions, raising fears their fragile truce was unravelling and Middle East supplies could be disrupted again. Brent crude futures gained $1.92, or 2.6pc, at $76.08 a barrel at 0400 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $1.82, or 2.6pc, to $72.26 a barrel. Both benchmarks rose about 3pc on Tuesday after the US revoked the general licence authorising the sale of Iranian crude following the Iranian attacks. “While the revocation doesn’t fundamentally change oil market dynamics, it’s important from a sentiment perspective. It heightens the risk of a breakdown in the temporary deal between the US and Iran,” ING commodity strategists said on Wednesday. The US airstrikes were in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said on Tuesday. “The current conflagration is a reminder to the market of how fra...

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OpenAI will publicly launch its most capable model, GPT-5.6, on Thursday, after delaying the launch last month on the US government’s request amid national security concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused. This comes on the heels of the US government lifting curbs on Anthropic’s latest Fable and Mythos AI models last week, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to suspend their access over national security risks. Washington has increased scrutiny of advanced AI model releases to identify potential threats on concerns that the technology could be misused by military or intelligence in China, Russia or other countries of concern. Axios, which broke the news on the OpenAI launch, reported citing a source familiar with the matter, that the US Department of Commerce had approved a broad launch of GPT-5.6, following additional government testing under Washington’s new oversight framework for frontier AI. OpenAI had limited the model’s access to a small group of vetted partners whose details...

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KARACHI: A power breakdown by K-Electric at the Dhabeji Pumping Station on Tuesday disrupted operations of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) and is expected to reduce the city’s water supply by nearly 100 million gallons per day (MGD). According to a KWSC spokesperson, the electricity outage affected the K-2 Pump House, where the manifold chamber and main valves developed a fault. “Work is being carried out at full pace to remove accumulated water from the affected valves, after which repair work will begin immediately,” he said. He added that the water utility had directed technical teams to undertake emergency repairs. “Engineers and maintenance staff are present at the site to identify and fix the fault as quickly as possible”, the official said. The spokesperson said that as a result of the malfunction, three major pumps at the K-2 Pumping Station had been temporarily shut down. “The disruption is expected to reduce Karachi’s daily water supply by around 100 million gallons,” he added. It ...