ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court acquitted a 74-year-old Christian in a blasphemy case after 23 years of imprisonment, most of which he spent in a death cell due to his mental disorders. “The petitioner is above seventy-four years of age and has spent about twenty-three years in prison, most of which was in the death cell. […]
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RAWALPINDI: Amid a flurry of provocative statements from India following the May 9 setback, Pakistan’s top military commanders pledged Wednesday to counter any future aggression by India “with a swift and decisive response, shattering any notion of India’s relative security arising from geography.” “Any imaginary ‘new normal’ will be met with a new normal of
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ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered that local body elections in Punjab be held in the last week of December 2025, as per the provisions of the Local Government Act, 2022. A four-member bench of the Election Commission – headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and
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PESHAWAR: A perfect storm of political, administrative and security crises in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa finally cost Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur his job as the jailed founder of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Wednesday decided to replace him with a young tribal lawmaker, Muhammad Sohail Afridi. Political analysts say Gandapur’s ouster was long overdue as
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Security forces killed seven terrorists belonging to Indian proxy Fitna al Khwarij during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release, security forces launched the operation on October 8 following confirmed information about the presence of terrorists affiliated with the India-backed terror network
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GILGIT: On Wednesday, police claimed to have found the body of one of the attackers involved in the armed attack on cleric Maulana Qazi Nisar Ahmad. According to authorities, the injured militant’s accomplices abandoned his body on the side of the road near Sultanabad before fleeing the scene. The body was then taken into custody
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Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry has refuted media reports claiming that Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Anwarul Haq has been removed from office due to his alleged lackluster response to the recent unrest in the region. Speaking to reporters in the federal capital, Chaudhry said there was no truth in
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President Asif Ali Zardari met Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq to discuss the political situation, as tensions continue to simmer between the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. The PPP and PML-N leaders in Punjab have been engaged in a
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ISLAMABAD: President of the Senate of Pakistan, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, has arrived in Bridgetown, Barbados to participate in the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. At the opening ceremony, President Gilani was warmly welcomed by representatives of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and senior government officials. Gilani expressed gratitude for the warm hospitality extended by the
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Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs, Rana Sanaullah, urged the PML-N and the PPP to put aside their differences and "move forward" of the Sindh-Punjab dispute. Speaking to a private news channel, the senior PML-N leader said: "Today’s political leaders should sit down at the table and solve their political problems, and in
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