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Creation of an emergency intervention committee

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday ordered federal and provincial authorities to step up preparations for the upcoming monsoon season, ordering the creation of a national emergency response mechanism and stressing that coordinated action is essential to mitigate the growing risks posed by climate change. Chairing a high-level meeting to review monsoon preparedness […]

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SC establishes rules for hiba in inheritance cases

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LAHORE: In a bid to strengthen women’s inheritance rights, the Supreme Court ordered the restoration of two sisters’ inherited share in their ancestral property after a 71-year dispute, while establishing that the burden of proving an oral gift (hiba) fell on those who claimed to benefit from it. In 1955, the defendants’ father died and

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Scientists make cells from lab-made DNA

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Tiny shaking spheres designed to feed and multiply raise possibility of artificial organisms Researchers say they are close to creating life from scratch after building tiny quivering blobs that use lab-made DNA to feed, grow and multiply in a dish. According to a report in The Guardian, the synthetic cells were made from chemical compounds

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Four dead as monsoon hits northwest

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Rescue teams extracted the injured from the rubble and transferred them to nearby hospitals. ISLAMABAD/QUETTA/PESHAWAR: Three children and a woman died and more than 30 others were injured in various incidents triggered by torrential monsoon rains and lightning in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), emergency services said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, monsoon rains accompanied by windstorms and

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Progress made after facilitating US-Iran negotiations in Doha (FO)

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The parties agree to continue discussions in the coming period, with the next round of negotiations to be scheduled. Pakistan and Qatar facilitated separate meetings between US and Iranian negotiators in Doha on Thursday, with both sides reporting positive progress on issues related to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), according to an official statement.

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CTD opens five fronts in investigation into Rangers attack

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Arrested terrorist claims banned Afghanistan-based organization planned attack with help of local facilitators Five cases have been registered by the Sindh Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in connection with the terrorist attack on a Rangers transport company at Gulistan-e-Jauhar in Karachi, in which three Rangers personnel were martyred. Investigators said an arrested terrorist claimed the attackers

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Earthquakes rock Islamabad, Punjab and KP as 5.3 quake hits

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Hit at 10:57 p.m. with its epicenter in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush; no damage reported A computer screen showing the earthquake in Karachi. PHOTO: SUHAIL YUSUF An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook Islamabad and parts of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday evening. Tremors were felt in several cities of KP, including Peshawar, Mardan

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Lower Dir woman allegedly killed by her uncle and cousin in ‘honor’ killing

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State registers FIR after police say 19-year-old was killed by relatives; suspect arrested A 19-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by her uncle and cousin in Lower Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa after she was seen talking to a neighbor outside her house, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on June 26 in the

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Lightning in KP kills two, injures more than 20

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At least two children were killed and more than 20 people were injured in different lightning-related incidents in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, officials said. In Khyber district, lightning struck a house in Zakhak Hail Bazaar area of Landi Kotal, killing two children and injuring members of the same family. Assistant sub-inspector Azmat Wali of Landi Kotal

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Pakistan moves to cashless payments for passports

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Interior Minister says move will speed up services at all passport offices and ensure transparency Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announced on Wednesday that the country had moved to cashless transactions at all passport offices. On June 19, the government decided to digitalize the passport issuing system as part of sweeping reforms aimed at modernizing immigration

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