KARACHI: Due to violence before and during 2024 general elections, plus anomalies including incarceration of PTI founder Imran Khan just before the polls, Pakistan’s score dropped from 3.25 in 2023 to 2.84 last year in the democracy index of Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It may be recalled that according to Fafen last year’s polls saw […]
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PARIS: Azerbaijan diplomatic post here was the venue where an event was organised by Ambassador Leyla Abdullayeva to remember the Armenian attack on the city of Khojaly, during the Karabakh War in 1992, that claimed lives of 600 unarmed civilians. The Envoy paid tribute to the citizens of Khojaly. Recalling that over six hundred innocent […]
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KARACHI: The newly elected President of Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys Association (AMUOBA) Muhammad Akbar Ali Khan, has taken over as the Chancellor of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET). KARACHI: Chancellor Akbar Ali Khan presided over the first Executive Meeting. __________ Addressing the faculty and staff members at the introductory ceremony, the […]
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GENEVA: IAEA has claimed that Iran’s stock of uranium close to weapons-grade has dramatically augmented. IAEA maintained: “The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon state to produce such nuclear material, is of serious concern.” Although Tehran has repeatedly denied that it wanted nuclear weapons, its adversaries […]
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NEELUM VALLEY: An avalanche has claimed lives of three people here on Tuesday (25th Feb 2025). Newspakistan.tv Anum Mashkoor
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ISLAMABAD: During the hearing of an intra-court appeal here on Wednesday (26th Feb, 2025) challenging the trial of civilians in military court, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail stated that 5 judges were unanimous in their decision that civilians could not be tried in military courts. During the proceedings, Advocate Faisal Siddiqui pointed out though there had […]
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WASHINGTON: In order to make sure that Pakistan use US-made F-16s only to contain terrorism and not against India, Trump administration had released $397 million on Monday (24th Feb, 2025). This amount is meant for a US-backed program aimed at making sure that the aircraft were not utilized the way they were used to during […]
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who will be seeing Donald Thump this week, has informed that he was in regular contact with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk. Starmer had talked to French leader Emmanuel Macron upon his return from Washington on 25th February. He said that UK will have to continue terms with both EU […]
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CHILAS: Despite government’s endeavours to pacify the protesters, thousands of slogan-chanting Diamer-Bhasha Dam affectees continued their dharna here for the 9th consecutive day on 25th Feb 2025, saying that the sit-in would continue till their 31 demands were fulfilled. Their key demands are: 1) Eighty per cent royalty of Diamer Dam for Gilgit-Baltistan; 2) Thirty per cent […]
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NEW YORK CITY: Due to criticism that American taxpayers’ money was being utilized to help asylum seekers in PIA-owned Roosevelt Hotel, Mayor announced that it would end $220 million lease agreement with the property. It may be recalled that during the 2020 pandemic the hotel had to close its gates. That translated into unbearable financial […]
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