JAKARTA: Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (15th Feb, 2024) looked set to become the new president of the world’s third-largest democracy, likely avoiding a runoff vote against election rivals who have yet to concede. The ex-general declared victory Wednesday evening after preliminary counts from government-approved pollsters – previously shown to be reliable – […]
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TOKYO: Once forecast to become the world’s biggest economy, Japan slipped below Germany last year to fourth place, official data showed Thursday (15th Feb, 2024), although India is projected to leapfrog both later this decade. Despite growing 1.9 percent, Japan’s nominal 2023 gross domestic product in dollar terms was $4.2 trillion, government data showed, compared […]
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin described US counterpart Joe Biden on Wednesday (15th Feb, 2024) as more predictable than Donald Trump but said the Kremlin was prepared to work with whoever wins November’s election. Asked by a journalist who Russia would like to see win in the likely contest between the Democratic incumbent and Republican […]
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RAWALPINDI: Former NA speaker Asad Qaisar has informed the Media outside Adiala Jail, following a rendezvous with PTI Chief incarcerated here, on Thursday (15th Feb, 2024) that Imran Khan had nominated Omar Ayub Khan as candidate for the slot of PM. According to Asad Qaisar, he has been instructed by IK to negotiate with political […]
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ISLAMABAD: President PML-N Shehbaz Sharif held a detailed meeting with JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazl-ur Rehman to ponder over the post-election scenario here on Wednesday (14th Feb, 2024). PML-N leaders Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Ishaq Dar and Malik Ahmad Khan and JU-F leaders Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Rashid Soomro, and Zia-ur-Rehman were also presented at the rendezvous. […]
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NEW DELHI: Indian riot police fired tear gas on Wednesday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded barricades and march on the capital to demand higher crop prices. Farmers in India this week launched a “Delhi Chalo”, or “March to Delhi”, in an echo of January 2021, when farmers breached barricades […]
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MANHATTAN: Ambassador Munir Akram, called for “strict” implementation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a World Bank-negotiated water-distribution agreement between India and Pakistan, as he underscored the need to address the looming water crisis. “Increasing water demand, coupled with climate change impacts, creates the potential for trans-boundary water disputes in several parts of the […]
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ISLAMABAD: Owing to the government’s decision to increase taxes on cigarettes to address its negative impact on public health and enhance revenue generation tobacco consumption in the country has reduced significantly. A study conducted by ‘Capital Calling’, in major cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Peshawar revealed that one in every 94 smokers has quit […]
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ISLAMABAD: Claiming that they were forging alliance for democratic stability, the representatives of PPP and PML-N on Wednesday (14th Feb, 2024) discussed the current political situation and agreed that establishing a stable democratic government is the need of the hour in the country. Senator Ishaq Dar, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Senator Azam Nazir Tarar, and Malik […]
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LAHORE: Before 8 Feb polls, so-called political pundits were of the view that script had been written according to which by Nawaz Sharif would be perched at the top executive slot. But voters changed the script and enormously voted for the PTI-backed Independents. Hence , following the editing made by the citoyens PML-N Supremo nominated […]
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