Suicide bomber kills Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani, 7 others

NOWSHERA: A suicide bomber detonated his jacket, harboring 5kgs of explosives, killing Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani and 7 others at Masjid Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak area here in the front suff immediately after Namaz-e-Jumma on 28th Feb, 2025. It is pertinent to mention here that slain Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq was son of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq Haqqani, an […]

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Ukraine War: Trump to sign peace/mineral deal on 28th Feb

WHITE HOUSE: President Donald Trump in a sit-down in the Oval Office with visiting UK PM Keir Starmer here Thursday, informed that he was going to sign an agreement apropos ending war with Russia and accessing Ukrainian rare material on Friday (28th Feb, 2025). “It’s really gonna get us into that country. We’ll be working […]

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7th Swap: Israel releases 643 Palestinian inmates

GAZA: In the 7th swap Palestine had handed over six live and four dead hostages in exchange for 643 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli gaols (including 50 incarcerated for life, 60 with high sentences & 47 who were re-arrested after the 2011 Shalit Deal). According to the Israel Prison Service statement it has concluded the 7th […]

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Elections

Pakistan’s Democracy Ranking Drops in 2024

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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Azerbaijan Embassy in France remembers attack on Khojaly

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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Akbar Ali Khan is the new Chancellor SSUET

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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Zelenskyy-Trump to sign truce/minerals deal on 28th Feb

WHITE HOUSE: Donald Trump has informed that Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy would be signing a very big agreement here on Friday (28th Feb, 2025). Trump held: “We have return for past US aid and, possibly, security guarantees…We’ve been able to make a deal where we’re going to get our money back, and we’re going to get […]

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Iran and IAEA Israel attacks on Irani energy installations

IAEA on Iran’s augmenting uranium stock

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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supreme court

Civilians cannot be tried in military courts: 5 SCP Judges

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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