Death of the Poet: Akash’s adopted son remanded to police custody

HYDERABAD: An ATC here on Tuesday (18th Feb 2025) has remanded celebrated Sindhi poet Dr. (Allah Baksh) Akash Ansari’s adopted son to police custody for four days. Postmortem report had revealed that renowned Sindhi poet was tortured before dying on Saturday (15th Feb) in a mysterious incendie in his Citizens Colony house’s locked bedroom. Police […]

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Nothing about Ukraine sans Ukraine: Zelenskyy

MUNICH: As, following the Trump-Putin telephonic conversation, USA is pushing to end the 3-year Kyiv-Moscow War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he needed security guarantees. Following his Friday (14th Feb 2025) rendezvous with with US Vice President J D Vance at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky took to the Social Media platform to state: “I […]

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Gaza Deal: Hamas to release Israeli hostages

GAZA: Following talks in Cairo, Hamas has proclaimed that it would continue releasing hostages, as mediators Egypt and Qatar had assured they would remove obstacles. It is pertinent to mention here that the mediators had successfully persuaded both Hamas and Israel to continue implementation. Hamas, citing Israel’s violations of the truce, had earlier postponed the […]

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IMF Team Reviews Pakistan’s Judicial/Regulatory System

ISLAMABAD: A 3-member technical mission of IMF, under the Pakistan’s 2024 Extended Fund Facility programme, arrived here Tuesday (11th Feb, 2025) for a week-long Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment. The scrutiny mission will examine six key governance-related sectors and institutions: IMF mission will examine severity of corruption vulnerabilities across six core state functions: 1) Fiscal Governance; […]

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IMF Mission to Conduct Governance, Corruption Diagnostic Assessment in Pakistan

KARACHI: Under Pakistan’s 2024 Extended Fund Facility programme, IMF’s 3-member mission will conduct a Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment. IMF mission will examine severity of corruption vulnerabilities across six core state functions: 1) Fiscal Governance; 2) Central Bank Governance & Operations; 3) Financial Sector Oversight; 4) Financial Sector; 5) Market Regulation; 6) Rule of Law […]

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North Waziristan

12 militants neutralised in N. Waziristan

N. WAZIRISTAN: Twelve militants have been neutralised by the security forces during an IBO carried out in general area of Hassan Khel here on 5-6 February, 2025. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the militants who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as target killing of innocent […]

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Trump wants US to takeover Gaza, relocating it’s population

WHITE HOUSE: Donald Trump, while speaking to journalists at a joint Presser held here with Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that he wanted the US to take over the Gaza Strip by relocating its populace in the neighbouring countries. President Donald Trump, who had already threatened to annex Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, said that the […]

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Afghan Taliban failed to rebuild the country: SIGAR

KARACHI: According to the report released by US Govt’s oversight authority on Afghanistan reconstruction SIGAR*, despite receiving aids worth billions of dollars, Taliban failed to rebuild their country. It is pertinent to mention here that since August 2021 (when US withdrew from Afghanistan) an aid of $3.71 Billion has been spent but still the repressive […]

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