The Cabinet comprises 18 members and two advisors to Prime Minister Raja Mumtaz Rathore The new AJK cabinet members will take oath in Muzaffarabad on Wednesday. Photo: Online A 20-member Azad Jammu and Kashmir cabinet, including two advisors, was sworn in after being formed as per an agreement with the Awami Joint Action Committee, which […]
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The 2026 monsoon is expected to bring 22 to 26 percent more rainfall than this year’s, the NDMA said, preceded by a short winter and intense summer. This is not new news, however. At a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee in August, the NDMA repeated the same figure of 22 to 26 percent. “There
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Trump said he was “taking our military cooperation to even greater heights” by granting the designation to Saudi Arabia. U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman speak under the colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC, United States, November 18, 2025. President Donald Trump designated Saudi Arabia
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Azma Bukhari reveals assets worth Rs23.40 billion frozen, along with 92 bank accounts LAHORE: The noose tightened further around the TLP after police arrested 90 of its suspected financiers, raising legal questions about how – and under what law – police applied the ban law retrospectively. Moreover, TLP workers, along with many ordinary citizens, have
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Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addresses a press conference in Karachi, Friday, November 7, 2025. MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said the “crushing defeat” inflicted on India during the May War was historic, saying Pakistan’s international standing had strengthened as India continued to face reminders of the “7-0
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. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian speaks to the media in Beijing on July 15, 2021. PHOTO: COURTESY OF CHINESE EMBASSY IN SOUTH AFRICA The Chinese embassy on Tuesday strongly rejected the US envoy’s claims of a so-called “debt trap” in China-Pakistan relations, calling the remarks driven by political agenda, saying Beijing’s strong cooperation
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A view of the start of the Kachhari Chowk megaproject (flyover, underpass). Photo: INP RAWALPINDI: The construction of three additional underpasses at Qasim Market, Racecourse and Cheering Cross on Peshawar Road, costing Rs7.20 billion, will begin either in the last week of this month or in the first week of December. According to officials, work
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The judges recalled that the SC had earlier asserted that any disadvantage arising from being a proclaimed offender ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that being declared a fugitive or fugitive in a criminal case does not, in and of itself, preclude an individual from pursuing civil or service-related remedies. In a five-page judgment written
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ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved a supplementary budget of 50 billion rupees for the armed forces to strengthen security at international borders, modernize naval bases and continue to protect foreign commercial interests in Pakistan. Of this, 39 billion rupees were allocated to the army and just under 11 billion rupees to the navy, according
ISLAMABAD: Three important judicial forums – the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Act (PAPA) committee – have been reconstituted in view of the 27th constitutional amendment. According to a notification issued by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, two judges of the new Federal
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