Marquez takes pole at French Moto GP
LE MANS: Spain’s defending two-time world champion Marc Marquez rode a powerful final lap to clinch pole position at the French Moto Grand Prix on Saturday...
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PakistanChief justice takes suo moto notice on ECP's lack of performance
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has taken suo moto notice over the lack of performance by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...
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PakistanSenate adopts resolution seeking laws to review suo moto decisions
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution, moved by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar, to enact laws providing the right to revise decisions taken by the Supreme Court in suo moto cases...
Senator Babar termed the unanimous adoption of the resolution a “landmark development because it placed an obligation on the government to adopt appropriate legislation to streamline the suo moto...
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PakistanSupreme Court takes suo moto notice of rape, torture of minor in Karachi
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday took suo moto notice of the rape and torture of a six-year-old girl in Karachi, Radio Pakistan reported...
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PakistanSC takes suo moto notice of child maid's alleged torture
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has taken suo moto notice of the alleged torture of a child maid in Islamabad, a Supreme Court spokesperson told DawnNews...
A medical board comprising a general surgeon, a plastic surgeon, a burn surgeon and a psychiatrist, was constituted by the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) after the Office of District Magistrate Islamabad issued a letter to the hospital administration, asking it "to...
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ArchiveMartin takes Styrian Moto GP pole
SPIELBERG: Jorge Martin grabbed pole position for the Styrian Grand Prix in a frantic finish to qualifying on Saturday...
Championship leader Fabio Quartararo crossed with a faster time at the end of the session, but his lap was scrubbed out because he exceeded track limits, while six-time world champion Marc Marquez, pushing hard, crashed on his final lap -
ArchiveFlour price set to rocket in Punjab amid high wheat price
LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
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ArchivePresident Alvi links price hike to global rise in fuel price, dollar’s rate
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
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ArchiveNew approaches being used with Pakistan, India over Afghan issue: US
WASHINGTON: The United States is working on new approaches with India and Pakistan for promoting stability and reconciliation in Afghanistan, says the State Department...
“Our approach to South Asia, and specifically Afghanistan, means new approaches with India and Pakistan to deny safe havens to terrorist organisations,” says State Department Inspector General Steve A...
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WorldChina says AIIB won't be used for $46 billion Pakistan deal
BEIJING: China does not plan to use either its new Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) or Silk Road fund to finance the $46 billion Pakistan-China Economic Corridor, with money to come from both countries instead, a senior diplomat said on Friday...
President Xi Jinping's trip to Pakistan next week is expected to focus on the corridor, a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking Pakistan's deepwater...
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PakistanPakistan’s soil must not be used for terrorism, says US envoy
The acting assistant secretary of United States for South and Central Asian Affairs and acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Alice Wells, stressed that Pakistan’s soil must not be used to plan or conduct terrorist attacks against its neighbours...
She appreciated Pakistan’s significant sacrifices in the fight against terrorism, read the FO statement...
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PakistanDeath penalty in Pakistan being used as political tool, researchers say
The death penalty in Pakistan is exceedingly used as a political tool, research conducted by the Justice Project Pakistan has found...
Pakistan’s use of the death penalty has failed to deter crime and curb terrorism, it claims...
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PakistanPakistan may buy used F-16 jets from Jordan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering a Jordanian offer to buy sixteen used F-16 jets in lieu of the eight advanced fighters it could not buy from the United States because of a financing row, but officials fear Washington could still throw a spanner in the works...
The fiasco over procurement of F-16s, which started with Congress blocking the funding of the sale from the US government’s Foreign Military Financing Programme, brought into...
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PakistanFrequent flyer ‘Mansour’ used Pakistan airports
QUETTA: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Balochistan on Saturday, was a frequent traveller and over the past nine years used at least two Pakistani airports for his visits abroad...
“He first went to Iran on Feb 19, 2016, and returned to Pakistan through the Taftan border town on March 10, 2016,” the official said, adding that he again travelled to Iran on April 25 this...
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ArchivePakistan will not allow its soil to be used against anyone, says DG ISPR
Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Sunday said that with reference to any country, Pakistan believes that any tension in the region is against peace efforts...
Quoting Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff General (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa, Ghafoor told ARY News: "We will not allow our soil to be used against anyone...
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