February 22, 2025
PAKISTAN

Despite opposition protests, the Senate approves the NAB amendment measure

The National Accountability (Second Amendment) Bill was passed by the Senate on Thursday despite the Opposition’s vocal opposition, which claimed that the administration sought to undermine the anti-corruption organization in order to facilitate its leadership. The government vehemently refuted these allegations, pointing out that the amendments were necessary and had to be passed the day […]

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PAKISTAN

Hamza Shahbaz arrives in London for a personal visit

LONDON: Hamza Shahbaz, the former chief minister of Punjab, is in London for a private visit. Hamza will remain in London for a few days, according to PML-N officials. The former chief minister will have a meeting with party leader Nawaz Sharif while he is in London. Sharif has been living there since 2019. Hamza […]

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PAKISTAN

Javed Latif claims that CEC has helped the country

Mian Javed Latif, a federal minister for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), claimed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) decided against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, whom he referred to as the “Corrupt Khan,” in accordance with the law and the Pakistani Constitution. The PML-N MNA made the statement after meeting […]

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COAS dedicates a brand-new Tank VT4 training facility

General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), paid visits to Risalpur and Nowshehra, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported on Thursday. When the army chief went to the School of Armor and Mechanized Warfare (SA&MW) in Nowshehra, he was given a briefing on the school’s training policies, with a focus on the […]

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PAKISTAN

Taiwan criticises China’s “illegitimate, reckless” live-fire military training exercises

TAIPEI: A day after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island, which Beijing views as its sovereign territory, China began conducting unprecedented live-fire military drills in six sites surrounding Taiwan on Thursday. The drills had started and will end on Sunday at 4:00 GMT. It stated that they would involve […]

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PAKISTAN

PTI will protest ECP at the government-approved F-9 park

Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), changed the location of the party’s protest on Wednesday, urging supporters to congregate in Islamabad’s F9 Park to demonstrate against the Election Commission of Pakistan and its chief election commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, rather than the organization’s headquarters as had been previously announced. He posted on […]

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PAKISTAN

Sindh’s cotton harvest is destroyed by floods, leaving farmers devastated

After days of violent monsoon rains stopped, Pakistani farmer Sajid Ali wades glumly across his flooded cotton crop to assess the irreparable harm.”My entire six-acre crop has been all but ruined. There is no longer any hope because the fields are still submerged under four feet of water “He spoke from the little community of […]

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Pakistan’s daily COVID-19 case count has shown a slight decline

The National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data showed Thursday morning that Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity ratio significantly decreased to 3.63 percent as the nation recorded at least 789 new cases in the previous 24 hours. 21,741 coronavirus tests were performed, with a positivity ratio of 3.63 percent as opposed to yesterday’s result of 3.85 percent. […]

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PAKISTAN Weather

According to PMD, a new rainy spell will begin falling in Sindh tomorrow

From tomorrow, a monsoon system may strike Sindh, according to Chief Meteorologist Sardar Sarfaraz. The new approach could result in significant rainfall in Sindh, particularly in Karachi, he said. Between August 6 and August 9, there is a probability that Karachi would have severe showers, the man stated. Thatta, Badin, Sajawal, Umarkot, and Tharparkar are […]

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Taliban look into US assertion that Al Qaeda head was killed

According to a Taliban spokesperson on Thursday, the group’s leadership was unaware of the presence of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul and is looking into a US “claim” that he was killed in a US drone strike there. The largest blow to the extremists since Osama bin Laden was assassinated more than ten years ago came […]

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