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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, said on Wednesday that there could be some room to cut the country’s policy interest rate before the end of the year. The central bank has kept the rate at 11 percent since May, after bringing it down from 22 percent since June 2024 in a series of…
Al Sharif Gaza Airstrike Kills Five Journalists Including Anas Al Sharif The Al Sharif Gaza airstrike on Sunday killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif, 28, along with four colleagues. The Israeli strike, described by Al Jazeera as a “directed assault,” hit a tent across from Shifa Hospital in eastern Gaza City. Al Sharif,…
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has welcomed Washington’s decision to add the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and its suicide wing, the Majeed Brigade, to the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs). The announcement came from the US State Department on Monday, with officials saying it reflected President Donald Trump’s commitment to combating terrorism. In a statement…
PESHAWAR – The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has stepped in to stop the appointment of new opposition leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate — at least for now. The order came Tuesday, just a week after PTI’s Omar Ayub and Shibli Faraz were removed from those posts following their disqualification by the Election…
United States Vice President JD Vance said a negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine was unlikely to satisfy either side, and that any peace deal would likely leave both Moscow and Kyiv “unhappy”, adding that the US is aiming for a settlement both countries can accept. “It’s not going to make anybody super happy. Both…
Gaza’s civil defence says Israeli fire killed 37 on Saturday, including 30 civilians waiting for aid Tens of thousands poured into the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night, demanding an end to the war in Gaza and the safe return of hostages. Demonstrators waved signs, chanted slogans, and held up photos of loved ones…
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan marked National Minorities Day on Monday with speeches from both government and opposition leaders, each promising to safeguard the rights of religious minorities and recognising their place in the country’s history, culture, and economy. The day, held every year on August 11, remembers Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s 1947 address to the Constituent…
What the ATC Faisalabad Judgment on May 9 Really Said The Anti-Terrorism Court in Faisalabad has sentenced senior PTI leaders — and more than a hundred other party members — to 10 years in prison over the events of May 9. Nine parliamentarians lost their seats the same day. The verdict runs 71 pages. Not…
Altaf Hussain, the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was released from a London hospital early on Saturday morning after being admitted for the second time in a month, according to a party official. On July 10, the founder of the MQM was admitted to the hospital in London because of a “severe illness.”…
The military’s media wing reported on Saturday that security forces had killed 14 additional terrorists who were trying to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Zhob district of Balochistan. This comes after 33 terrorists who were members of the “Indian proxy Fitna al Khwaraj” were killed on the evenings of August 7 and 8. The…
