ISLAMABAD: Following the receipt of threatening letters (laced with mysterious powder) addressed to all the 8 judges of IHC (including CJ), on Tuesday (2nd of April, 2024) a FIR was registered at CTD here on the complaint of Duty Clerk Qadeer Ahmad. IHC duty clerk stated that 8 letters were received, a day ago, addressed […]
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KARACHI: The soyem of Syed Iqbal Hussain, a senior journalist and member of the Karachi Union of Journalists and the husband of Sheher Bano, (Editor of Supplements and Special Reports at The News), was held at his residence in North Karachi. Earlier, the funeral prayer for Iqbal Hussain took place on Saturday (30th March, 2024) […]
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MIRAMSHAH (N. WAZIRISTAN): JUI-F’s influential cleric Noor Islam Nizami has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the Pak Afghan border on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024). Newspakistan.tv Sana Mehmood
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ISTANBUL: A daytime fire killed at least 29 people in a 16-storey residential building here on Tuesday (2nd of April, 2024). “The number of people who lost their lives in the fire […] in Gayrettepe of Besiktas district has increased to 29,” Governor Davut Gul’s office said in a statement, referring to the Istanbul neighborhood. […]
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VANTAA (HELSINKI): A 12-year-old opened fire on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024) at a school outside the Finnish capital Helsinki injuring three other children, police said, adding that the attacker was in custody. The school in Vantaa has around 800 pupils and 90 staff. Children in grades one to nine, or aged seven to 15, attend […]
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ISLAMABAD: Irani Envoy to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024) and discussed matters of mutual concern. The prime minister thanked the President of Iran, Dr. Ebrahim Raisi, for his congratulatory message and telephone call to him following his re-election. He underscored that Pakistan attached great importance […]
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ISLAMABAD: Eight judges of IHC have received threatening letters, that probably harbored anthrax powder, here on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024) exposing vulnerability of those working for the Judiciary. When a staff member, who opened one of the envelopes, reported burning sensation in eyes (presumably due to suspected powder) Islamabad Police was called to examine the […]
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ISLAMABAD: The coalition government emerged victorious in the Senate Polls held on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024) with PPP getting 11 and PML-N bagging 6 seats (out of 19 seats that were up for grabs). Ishaq Dar, received 222 votes to claim a technocrat seat from here beating SIC’s Raja Ansar Mahmood who bagged 81 votes. […]
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TEHRAN: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday (2nd April, 2024) condemned a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country’s consular annex in Damascus, saying the “cowardly crime will not go unanswered”. “After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations […]
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KARACHI (UNITED NATIONS): Ever since the UNGA designated 2nd April as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) in 2007, the UN has observed the day as a means to affirm and promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for autistic people on an equal basis with others. Progress has been made, not […]
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