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Arabs shun Israeli media at Qatar World Cup, cooling hopes of a thaw
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DOHA: Arab soccer fans at the first World Cup in the Middle East are shunning Israeli journalists in Qatar trying to interview them, illustrating challenges facing wider “warm peace” ambitions two years after some Gulf states forged formal ties with Israel. Israeli officials have voiced hope tha...
Shahzad Akbar 'misled' PTI cabinet over misappropriation of funds: Vawda
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Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda on Thursday accused ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s adviser for accountability and interior Shahzad Akbar of “misleading” the PTI cabinet over the issue involving misappropriation of funds from the UK. “I and Shahzad Akbar had a fight....
Ayla Majid becomes first South Asian woman to be appointed as VP ACCA
https://papernews.press/archives/3934
Pakistan’s Ayla Majid was elected as the vice president of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) on Wednesday. With the appointment, Majid has made history as she is the first South Asian woman to be elected for this global position in ACCA’s 118-year history. Congratulation ...
SC order 'unknowingly' violated: Imran submits reply in contempt case
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the Supreme Court (SC) order of May 25, wherein the PTI’s previous long march was restricted from entering Islamabad’s D-Chowk, was “not knowingly violated”. The former premier submitted his reply in the contem...
Govt seeks to quell speculation on next COAS selection
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif returned home on Monday after his extended stay in London where he was believed to have held closed-door consultations with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif and other leaders on the appointment of a new army chief. But contrary to cla...
PTI moves SC for naming three suspects in Wazirabad attack FIR
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) filed a constitutional petition simultaneously in the Supreme Court’s (SC) Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta registries on Monday challenging the decision not to include the names of the three suspects identified by party chief Imran Khan in the FIR...
PTI to move SC for FIR against three suspects
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to approach the Supreme Court to get the three suspects named by party chief Imran Khan included in the FIR over the murderous gun attack on the former prime minister. The attack on the cricketer-turned-politician occurred during his “Haqee...
Not allowed to meet one of four shooters: FIA DG
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) DG Mohsin Hassan Butt on Saturday said that they were not allowed to meet one of the four shooters who had opened fire on slain journalist Arshad Sharif. In an interview with an American channel, the FIA DG said that he was sure about the involvement of....
Pakistani pilgrims attend Urs of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (RA) in Delhi
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LAHORE: As many as 147 Pakistani pilgrims, accompanied by Charge d’affaires Aftab Hasan Khan and diplomats from the Pakistan High Commission in India, placed the traditional chaddar at the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (RA) in New Delhi on Saturday. The pilgrims, led by Muqeet Ahsen, an offici...
Turkey helps Pakistan mitigate food security challenges
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KARACHI: Turkey’s state-run aid agency is assisting flood-battered farmers in Pakistan to mitigate a looming threat to food security caused by recent super floods and rains that inundated millions of acres of croplands across the South Asian country. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency...
Constitution to be followed in COAS’s appointment: PM
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ISLAMABAD: The issue of the appointment of the next army chief continued to occupy the centre stage of the national political discourse on Friday, with the government taking the pains to state that it would be done according to the Constitution. The statement came as the matter of the imminent chang...
Nawaz will never let COAS to be appointed on merit: Imran
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Former prime minister and PTI Chairman has reiterated that incumbent coalition government would not appoint next army chief on merit, saying PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would not let it happen. “Whoever is on merit should become the next army chief but Nawaz Sharif would not let it happen because t...
$6 per barrel extra premium being charged
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ISLAMABAD: A default-like situation in Pakistan would cost fuel consumers heavily as the government has recently approved an upper limit of premium at maximum $15 per barrel, which may burden the consumers with an additional Rs10 per litre of diesel and petrol. Currently, the suppliers are charging....
Arshad Sharif brutally tortured before being shot dead, claims report
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Slain journalist Arshad Sharif was brutally tortured for hours before being shot dead according to post-mortem reports, claimed a private TV channel on Wednesday night. The journalist hosting the show also claimed that Sharif was shot at close range and that this was not a case of mistaken identity....
Republicans close in on US House majority, Senate still up for grabs
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WASHINGTON: Republicans were edging closer to securing a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives early on Thursday, while control of the Senate hung in the balance, two days after Democrats staved off a Republican “red wave” in midterm elections. Republicans had captured at least 210 House...
WATCH: Man arrested after eggs thrown at King Charles
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YORK: A man was detained by police on Wednesday after eggs were thrown at King Charles and Camilla, his wife and queen consort, as they carried out an engagement in northern England. Footage on social media showed four eggs flying past the British monarch and his wife and smashing on the ground as t...
Violence has no place in politics, says US
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The United States reiterated its condemnation of the assassination attempt on former premier Imran Khan and stated that violence had ‘no place’ in politics. Commenting on the Wazirabad attack, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price that the country continued “to strongly condemn the shooti...
Pakistan to get $500m from AIIB for uplift scheme
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will receive $500 million as co-financing for the BRACE development programme from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday. The BRACE (Building Resilience with Active Counteryclical Expenditures Programme) is an Asian Developm...
Qatar is a mistake,' says former FIFA President Sepp Blatter
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ZURICH: Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA when Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup hosting rights in 2010, told Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger “Qatar is a mistake,” adding that “the choice was bad.” The Qatar decision has been marred by controversy, including allegations of corrupt...
PM reminds world plight of flood-hit Pakistan as financing gap widens
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday sensitising the international community on the plight of flood-hit Pakistan, said the country needed additional funding, not debts, to rebuild a resilient and adaptive infrastructure as the financing gap was widening by the day. “We have to fight and rebuil...
Punjab CM will abandon Imran Khan: Khawaja Asif.
https://papernews.press/archives/3812
LAHORE: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday claimed that Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi will abandon former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, who had recently survived an assassination attempt in Wazirabad. “Imran Khan used to call Elahi the biggest cr...
Maryam meets Nawaz in London after three years
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ISLAMABAD/ LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz reached London on Thursday to meet her father, party supremo Nawaz Sharif, after three years, days after a court ordered to return her passport. Maryam left from Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Airport two days ago. She trav...
Little kids who were still sleeping' - Thailand mourns victims of mass killing
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BANGKOK: Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness. Thailand’s deputy prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, clasped his hands together and...
Ishaq Dar granted relief as court cancels arrest warrants
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ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad accountability court cancelled on Friday the arrest warrants issued against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar while hearing an assets beyond means reference against him. The minister appeared before the court amidst tight secur...
Don't worry about right or wrong': Audio leak features Imran talking about 'horse trading
https://papernews.press/archives/3484
ISLAMABAD: A week after a leaked audio recording of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders was released, another one surfaced on Friday purportedly featuring party chief Imran Khan talking about ‘buying’ MNAs. In the 0.45-second audio, a voice attributed to the former prime minister can be heard...
Little kids who were still sleeping' - Thailand mourns victims of mass killing
https://papernews.press/archives/3476
Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness. Thailand’s deputy prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, clasped his hands together and bowed hi...
India police detain one after death threats to billionaire Ambani, family
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Police in Mumbai said on Thursday they had detained one person from India’s eastern state of Bihar after threat calls to billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s family that controls the telecoms-to-clothes Reliance Industries conglomerate. In February last year, a car laden with explosives was found near th...
Chiniot mines reference returned to NAB
https://papernews.press/archives/3473
LAHORE: The Chiniot mines and minerals reference has been returned to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as an accountability court cited the lack of jurisdiction over the matter as per the amended National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) and directed the bureau to take up the matter to the rel...
Moody’s downgrades Pakistan’s credit rating
https://papernews.press/archives/3470
KARACHI: Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday downgraded Pakistan’s credit rating to ‘Caa1’ from ‘B3’ and maintained the outlook at negative, as the government’s dollar requirement for financing a widening current account deficit and the risk to sustain debt increased in the wake of r...
China has rushed to Pakistan’s help’, FO spox says in response to US criticism
https://papernews.press/archives/3430
Hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Pakistan to seek debt relief from China so that it can more quickly recover from the floods devastations, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Tuesday said that his country was doing all it can to help its ‘genuine friend a...
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