ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa reiterated the court’s obligation to render a judgment on the presidential reference during the hearing regarding the death sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Monday. Heading a nine-member larger bench, CJP Isa underscored the importance of the court’s role in such matters. Justice […]
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VIENNA: Austrian authorities were on Saturday investigating the killings of five women in the capital Vienna within a single day, sowing panic in the city. The dead included three women found brutally stabbed to death in a brothel. The bodies of three young women were found with fatal knife wounds in a brothel in Vienna’s […]
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LISBON, PORTUGAL: The official two-week campaign period before Portugal’s early general election began Sunday, with the country’s two moderate mainstream parties once again expected to collect the most votes but with the expected rise of a populist party potentially adding momentum to Europe’s drift to the right. The center-left Socialist Party and center-right Social Democratic […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will attack Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, but the assault “will be delayed somewhat” if a captives deal is reached. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says the last time it was able to deliver food to northern Gaza was on January […]
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SHAMBHU, INDIA: Farmers in India’s northern Punjab state demanding higher prices for their crops from the national government are relying on young students to ensure the agitation’s momentum does not fizzle out. Eighteen-year-old Simranjeet Singh Mathada is one of thousands of college students who have been waking up at 3 am for almost two weeks […]
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Baier, the current party chairman with little European experience, was the only contender. He was elected in a closed assembly in Slovenia. The European Left on Saturday elected Austrian Walter Baier as their spitzenkandidat or pick to lead the European Commission following the elections in June. Baier, 70, who hails from the Austrian communist party, […]
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The results of the 2018 and 2024 general elections, and by-elections between these years, suggest that a new factor has entered voting behaviour in Punjab By Atif Nazar Electoral politics in Pakistan is undergoing enormous changes and a new factor is redefining the electoral landscape of Pakistan. Since 2018 the biggest factor that seems to […]
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After losing the South Carolina state primary to Donald Trump, Nikki Haley still refuses to back down. Later in the evening, after the state primary, Haley took to the stage, announcing that she would keep fighting, NBC reported. She promised to stay in the Grand Old Party (GOP) presidential contest through at least Super Tuesday, […]
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A senior UN official has told the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations that the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region remains in place, with only two violations reported in 2023, according to diplomatic sources. Briefing the 157-member Committee, also known as C-34, Khaled Khairi, the assistant secretary-general […]
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LONDON: The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one of its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics. The party said Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused to apologize for remarks made about Khan in […]
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