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Sindhi handicrafts, folk music put on display at festivities in Sehwan. The 773rd urs celebrations of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar began in Sehwan on Monday, as acting Sindh Governor and Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Awais Qadir Shah inaugurated the festivities. According to an announcement from the information department, Awais laid a floral wreath on the shrine…
Companies in Pakistan have been deemed to be “moderately transparent” in corporate reporting, according to the Transparency in Corporate Reporting Assessment (TRAC) report by Transparency International Pakistan (TIP). According to a statement issued on February 10, the report assessed the top 69 publicly listed companies on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (as per market capitalisation) on…
A former surgeon goes on trial later this month charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 former patients, most of them children and many of them unconscious at the time, over a quarter of a century across western France. The sheer scale and horror of the allegations against Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, means his…
India’s opposition parties have criticised US President Donald Trump’s offer to sell F-35 fighters to the country, citing their high costs, even as Russia has discussed producing its most advanced jets locally in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goals. The offer from both the US and India’s long-time defence partner Russia comes at a…
The federal government on Monday decided to form a high-level committee to address the grievances of locals protesting against the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) in Gilgit Baltistan’s (GB) Diamer for not compensating locals for their land acquired to build the Diamer-Bhasha Dam. Thousands of people gathered to protest Wapda in the airport area…
Newly appointed Karachi Traffic Police (KTP) chief Syed Pir Mohammed Shah on Monday directed officers to strictly implement timing for dumpers and heavy vehicles from 10pm to 6am amid an uptick in related traffic accidents. The Sindh government had replaced the KTP chief on Friday. The development came following a growing incidence of traffic accidents,…
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government said on Monday that over 150 bunkers have been demolished in Kurram since the process began last month with a deadline set for the demolition to be completed by March 23. Clashes stemming from decades-old land disputes have claimed at least 130 lives since November, with food and medicine shortages reported…
Justice Sardar Mohammad Sarfraz Dogar, the newly appointed acting chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), took up a petition on Monday challenging recent changes to the country’s cybercrime laws as his first case at the court. Justice Dogar was sworn in as the IHC acting chief justice last week in a ceremony boycotted…
A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday, in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday, in a visit that local media said would last one week and included officials from the higher education, foreign affairs, and economy ministries. “We seek dignified…
An Indian court jailed a 31-year-old man for life on Monday following the rape and murder of a young Irish woman in the tourist resort state of Goa, nearly eight years after the crime. The victim, whose name cannot be disclosed under Indian law, was 28 when she visited Goa in March 2017 and befriended…