Police in Spain said Friday they have arrested a Pakistani couple suspected of having killed their own daughter in Pakistan because she got married without their approval. Pakistani authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the couple after the killing committed in April 2020, Spain’s National Police said in a statement. Investigators believe the couple […]
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Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s election commission (ECP), in a unanimous decision, has found former Prime Minister Imran Khan guilty of “corrupt practices” and disqualified him from being a member of parliament. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party immediately rejected Friday’s ruling and called on supporters to take to the streets. Faisal Fareed Chaudhry, part of the […]
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Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her coalition allies have met President Sergio Mattarella and say they are ready to form a government “as quickly as possible”. He is set to ask Ms Meloni in the coming hours to become prime minister. Veteran ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended the brief talks, despite shaking the coalition’s […]
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ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday removed Pakistan from its ‘grey list’, acknowledging the country’s progress to fully comply with the plan of action. “The FATF welcomes Pakistan’s significant progress in improving its AML/CFT regime. Pakistan has strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime and addressed technical deficiencies […]
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NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court has issued notice to government on a petition seeking urgent intervention to stop the growing menace of targeting and terrorizing the Muslim community in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the petitioner, Shaheen Abdullah, was seeking direction to India and the State Governments to initiate independent, credible and impartial […]
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After the bottlenecks at the gas stations, France now also faces a shortage of medicines. The supply of drugs Doliprane and Efferalgan has been strained since July, but a winter wave of illness is just around the corner that could exacerbate the problem further. Citing a communication from the National Agency for Safety of Medicines […]
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The Jammu and Kashmir government is empowering and encouraging young women through ambitious ‘Tesjaswani scheme’ by providing financial assistance for setting up gainful self-employment ventures, suited to their skills, training, aptitude and local conditions. The UT administration is also facilitating soft finance for setting up new enterprises or for expansion and modernization of existing ventures […]
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European Union leaders have failed to reach an agreement on a plan to help protect their citizens from surging energy prices, despite hours of wrangling at a summit in Brussels. The group’s leaders emerged from their second summit in as many weeks at about 2am in Brussels (00:00 GMT) with a “roadmap” to agreeing on […]
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Austria’s president on Thursday called for wide-ranging reforms of the country’s political culture following fresh revelations over a graft scandal, which led then-chancellor Sebastian Kurz to resign last year. Austrian politics has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals with Kurz’s resignation in 2021 marking a spectacular fall for a politician who had been […]
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Oil prices opened mixed in early Asian trade on Thursday as investors balanced caution over tightening supply against lower demand projections. Brent crude futures for December settlement fell 28 cents, or 0.3%, to $92.13 a barrel by 0010 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery (WTI) , which expires on Thursday, rose 34 […]
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