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. Pakistan’s Chief Justice Yahya Afridi speaks during a lecture at the Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad, July 25, 2025. ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi has reaffirmed the judiciary’s commitment to protecting the rights of women and improving their access to justice, announcing a comprehensive gender-responsive justice reform program for 2026-27. In […]

. ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has stayed the execution of a decision ordering a private airline, Airblue, to pay around Rs 5.04 billion in compensation to the families of victims of the 2010 private airline plane crash in the federal capital. Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir of the IHC heard the appeal filed by

. DPM and FM Ishaq Dar address the UN Security Council session on Palestine in New York. PHOTO: MOFA ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday held talks with his UAE counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “The two leaders exchanged views on the developing regional situation and stressed the importance of peace

. QUETTA: Seven people died and eight were injured in a two-vehicle collision on the Makran coastal road near Neji, about 40 kilometers from Ormara, on Saturday evening. Emergency services reported that the accident occurred around 2:30 a.m., when a broken-down oil tanker suddenly blocked the road, causing two vehicles traveling at high speed to

LAHORE: The sharp rise in oil prices has started to impact the country’s transport sector, pushing up fares for buses, rickshaws, taxis and railways and putting further pressure on commuters who are already struggling to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Transport operators in several cities have started increasing fares on intercity and

. ISLAMABAD: Prices of deregulated petroleum products, including kerosene, light diesel (LDO) and high octane blending components (HOBC), have also increased following the recent hike in gasoline and fast diesel (HSD) prices and rising international oil prices. Although the government claims that kerosene, LDO and HOBC are deregulated products whose prices are not directly set

The police are investigating. Photo: (file)/Ramzan Seemab DERA ISMAIL KHAN/MIRANSHAH: Two policemen were killed, while 15 people, including five policemen, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Rustam Bazaar area of ​​Wana in Lower South Waziristan on Saturday. In another attack, the brother of a peace committee leader was killed in an

RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced 47 people, including some key PTI leaders, to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 500,000 each in connection with the May 9, 2023 attacks on the General Headquarters (GHQ). He also ordered the confiscation of the movable and immovable property of the convicts who had

Security sources say army struck Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij in North and South Waziristan, destroying posts The armed forces successfully carried out actions against the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij Saturday along the Pak-Afghan border in North and South Waziristan, destroying several of their posts and forcing the enemy to abandon their positions and