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The Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday acquitted PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi while sentencing Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry and others to 10 years in prison over a May 9 riots case related to violence on Sherpao Bridge. Following the arrest of ex-premier Imran Khan on May 9, 2023, from the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) premises, riots erupted across the country and went on for at least 24 hours. Protesters vandalised and torched government buildings and military installations, while also breaking into the residence of the Lahore corps commander. The state subsequently launched a crackdown against him and his party, filing several other cases against Imran and party leaders since the events of May 9. Sarwar Road police had registered a case against PTI leaders and workers on charges of ransacking and burning public property at Sherpao Bridge in the Cantonment area during the violent protests. Advocate Burhan Moazzam Malik, the lead defence counsel, confirmed today’s sentencing to Dawn.com. He said ...

The head of Gaza’s largest hospital on Tuesday said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, while Israel pressed a devastating assault. Gaza’s population of more than two million people is facing severe shortages of food and other essentials, with residents frequently killed as […]

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior has commenced a four-month temporary extension for revocations, letting individuals whose Kuwaiti citizenships were cancelled due to the “Outstanding Services” clause travel using their Kuwaiti passports and start the process of authorising their residency status. The step has been taken on account of a comprehensive crackdown on fraudulent nationality […]

ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Cultural Counsellor Majid Meshki visited the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on Tuesday to discuss fostering Pakistan-Iran literary cooperation. Majid Meshki engaged in in-depth discussions with PAL Chairperson Dr. Najeeba Arif and Director General Sultan Nasir to consider options for intensifying the literary aspect and cultural association between the two nations. During the […]

NEW DELHI: A disastrous event was narrowly escaped when Air India Flight AI 315, arriving from Hong Kong, ignited upon landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The fire exploded in the aircraft’s Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) as passengers started to land at the gate. According to an official statement from Air India, the fire […]

NEW YORK: A daily work assignment turned into a viral transformative event for a merchant marine lottery winner from Brooklyn, New York, who won a $1 million prize from a Maryland Lottery scratch-off ticket. The merchant marine, who was based at the Port of Baltimore, made a short break at a 7-Eleven on Key Highway […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday issued multiple impact-based weather alerts in response to intensifying monsoon conditions and the arrival of a fresh westerly wave across the country. Moist monsoon currents from the Arabian Sea are currently penetrating Sindh and the upper regions of Pakistan, […]

Ozzy Osbourne, frontman of 1970s heavy metal band Black Sabbath, earned his infamy biting the head off a bat on stage and pursuing a drug-fuelled lifestyle before reinventing himself as a loveable if often foul-mouthed reality TV star. Known to fans as “The Prince of Darkness” and the “Godfather of Heavy Metal,” Osbourne has died […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday announced that it would challenge the convictions of its senior leaders – including Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, and Senator Ejaz Chaudhry – who were sentenced in connection with the May 9 riots. An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore had sentenced the PTI leaders to 10 years […]

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has maintained that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Senate elections were conducted impartially in accordance with the Constitution and law. In a statement issued here, a ECP spokesperson said that no objections were raised by the polling agents of any of the candidates during the polling process for the […]

A man allegedly shot dead his daughter and nephew in Quetta on Tuesday in the name of ‘honour’, just days after the Degari case, in which a couple was gunned down in broad daylight, drawing widespread condemnation, according to the police. Shalkot Sub-Divisional Police Officer Athar Rashid told Dawn.com, “The daughter and the nephew died in the firing, while the suspect managed to escape after the incident.” The bodies were taken to the hospital for medicolegal formalities, after which they were handed over to the heirs. Rashid added that a team from Kechi Baig police station was conducting raids to arrest the suspect. “The suspect will be arrested soon, while further investigation into the incident is underway,” he said. The incident comes two days after the police arrested at least 14 suspects for their involvement in the killing of a man and a woman in Quetta’s Degari area, who were shot dead on the orders of a tribal jirga ahead of Eidul Azha for so-called ‘honour’. The arrests were made after a video of ...

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