KARACHI: Justice Athar Minallah, while talking to lawyers at KBA Thursday (4th Sept, 2025) here has maintained that hybrid system was a euphemism for dictatorship. According to him: “It is something to accept that people today say there is a hybrid system, that means there is dictatorship and there is no constitutional governance.…I had to […]
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LISBON: A carriage on historic Glória funicular derailed here Wednesday (3rd Sept, 2025) killing 17 (including 5 Portuguese) and injuring 21 (some critically). According to details the carriage hit a building near Avenida da Liberdade and collapsed. Last year, 8.5 million tourists visited Lisbon and one of the major attractions for them was Glória’s brief […]
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BEIJING: China will be observing the Victory Day – 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrendering in the WWII – on Wednesday (3rd Sept, 2025) here. But in this epoch, when Trumpian Tariffs are changing the established geo-political scenario, when Russia-Ukraine and Hamas-Israel skirmishes are resurrecting the ghoul of cold war and the Satan of East-West division, […]
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TIANJIN: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while visiting China for the first time in seven years, met the host of 2-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit President Xi Jinping on the sidelines here on 30th August. The duo (representing 2.8 billion people) maintained that there was now deepening trust between the two countries. While, Modi […]
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SANAA: Yemeni Presidency took to the X Sat (30th Aug, 2025) to proclaim that Iran-aligned Houthi Govt’s PM Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, along with several of his fellow ministers, were killed here in an Israeli airstrike on 28th August. According to Houthis, the ministers were targeted during a routine workshop held by the government to evaluate […]
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ANKARA: Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, while addressing an extraordinary parliamentary session on Israel’s attacks on Gaza, has declared on Friday (29th August, 2025) that his country had totally cut trade with Tel Aviv, closed off ports to Israeli ships and were not allowing Turkish ships to portcall Israel. Türkiye, that has also closed its aerospace […]
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COPENHAGEN: Intelligence Agencies here have reported on Wednesday (27th Aug, 2025) that Americans were being infiltrated in the Greenland society in order to promote its secession from Denmark to USA. After receiving reports apropos US citizens who were involved in such covert activities, Chargé d’affaires was summoned to inform that no such conspiracy would be […]
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NEW YORK: Fitch Ratings Inc. on Monday (25th Aug, 2025) stated that India’s economic outlook remained strong “relative to peers, even as momentum has moderated in the past two years.” Citing the country’s strong economic growth and resilient external finances Fitch Ratings Inc. maintained long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating on India at BBB-. The agency […]
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MOSCOW: While Kyiv was preoccupied on Sunday (24th August, 2025) with observing the 34th Independence Day, Russia accused it of attacking country’s Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, situated close to the border with Ukraine, by means of drones. According to Russia, the overnight attack caused an incendie and damaged an auxiliary transformer. Moreover, at reactor number […]
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LAHORE: Pakistan has sent a consignment of 100 tons of relief goods (including flour, ready-to-eat meals, cooking oil, jam and fruit cocktails) from Allama Iqbal Int’l Airport to Gaza (via Egypt’s Al Arish) on Saturday (23rd of August, 2025) by means of a chartered avion. It is pertinent to mention here that so far, by […]
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