In a constituency where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration of a large Hindu temple just months prior was perceived as a momentous occasion that would solidify his legacy and the party’s election victory, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India conceded defeat on Tuesday. The opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress are leading in more […]
Imran Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the party’s leader, were cleared by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday in the Cipher case. While it considered the arguments of the imprisoned former prime minister Imran and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the court suspended their ten-year sentence. […]
After taking up the project left behind by her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose popularity among the impoverished contributed to her victory, Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president. Based on a fast sample count conducted by Mexico’s electoral authority, Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday ordered the Ministry of Finance to lower the price of gasoline by Rs15.4 and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs7.9 per litre, in a major action meant to alleviate the public’s suffering. The prime minister emphasized that this choice is in line with the government’s pro-people policies, according to the […]
The Taliban administration on Friday rejected Islamabad’s request for assistance from Afghanistan, stating Kabul was unrelated to the event that occurred on March 26, one day after Pakistan requested Afghan assistance to capture the culprits of a terrorist attack on Chinese engineers. The interior secretary was dispatched to Kabul by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif with […]
The Supreme Court judges have expressed annoyance over Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent “black sheep” remarks, asking him to file a reference against such elements. The remarks from the judges came during a hearing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendment case earlier today. Addressing an event on Tuesday PM Shehbaz said You are Pakistanis […]
Thursday marked the first time that a US president had been found guilty of a felony, as a jury in New York found that Donald Trump had falsified paperwork to conceal a payment made to a porn star in order to quiet her before the 2016 election. The 12-member jury found Trump guilty on all […]
The United States has expressed interest in providing loan financing for the multibillion-dollar Reko Diq gold and mining project. This might be Washington’s first significant investment in Pakistan in many years. According to government and diplomatic sources, the US government’s sovereign export credit agency, the Export-Import (Exim) Bank of the United States, was eager to […]
Following President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash, Iran began the registration of candidates for an early election next month on Thursday, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on state TV. Raisi’s unexpected passing has sparked a scramble among hardliners to influence the choice of Iran’s next leader. Raisi was formerly thought to be […]
A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and including Justices Athar Minallah, Aminuddin Khan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, and Hasan Azhar Rizvi resumed hearing the case. At the outset of the hearing, Justice Minallah said the hearing should be broadcast in the same manner earlier hearings were. If the case […]
