FRANKFURT: Germany registered a record of around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, official data showed on Thursday. Around 9,600 of those deaths were recorded in one week in late June when Germany baked in temperatures of over 40C, according to the Robert Koch Institute. The heatwaves...
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PM Shehbaz, President Zardari call for global action against terrorism
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari called for unified global action against terrorism and stressed that no territory was used for terrorism against another country. The two leaders made these assertions in their separate messages on the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, which is observed annually...
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Do We Really Need a Billion Dollars?
Imagine opening your eyes to a rainy morning, taking a slow sip of hot chai, and casually unlocking your phone to check your bank app. The screen flashes back at you with a number so absurd it makes you freeze mid-sip, Rs. 60 billions ($200 million) sitting silently in your account. In a single heartbeat,...
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Supreme Court Registrar Returns Government Review Petition Against Imran Khan’s Hospital Transfer
SLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Registrar Office has returned the government’s review petition challenging the judicial order to transfer Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan to a hospital, raising administrative objections over incomplete documentation. According to sources, the Registrar Office flagged that the review petition was submitted without complete paper books. The petition will be re-filed...
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Syrian foreign minister arrives in Islamabad on official visit
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani arrived in Islamabad early on Thursday on an official visit. The Foreign Office (FO) shared pictures of the visiting minister arriving in Islamabad on the social media platform X. “Upon arrival, the distinguished guest was received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ additional secretary (Middle East),” it said. The...
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‘Tremendous consequences’: Trump threatens economic punishment on ‘any country’ helping Iran
United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was launching a major new campaign to target Iran’s economy, threatening “tremendous” punishment on any country that helps or does business with the country. The intensified economic pressure campaign comes as the war nears its sixth month with no immediate diplomatic or military off-ramp in sight...
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US, South Korea cut annual war games short after Trump criticism
Annual war games between South Korea and the United States will end around a week earlier than planned, both countries said on Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump ordered the “inappropriate and hostile” drills scaled back. Trump said on Sunday that he had told the Pentagon to curtail the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises — a day...
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Pakistan condemns ‘unprovoked’ Israeli attack on Syria air base
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday strongly condemned the “unprovoked” attack carried out by Israel on an air base in Syria, saying such acts had the potential to “further undermine regional peace and stability”. Syria’s state-run Ekhbariya television, citing a military source, said on Tuesday that Israel carried out eight airstrikes on the runway and storage facilities...
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Terrorist attempts to impede Balochistan’s development will be foiled ‘at all costs’, Zardari tells CM Bugti
President Asif Ali Zardari held a meeting with Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Wednesday and expressed the resolve to foil terrorists’ attempts of hindering development in the province. “Attempts by foreign-backed terrorists to hinder development in Balochistan will be foiled at all costs. The day is not far when terrorism will be eradicated from...
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Winds of change to where?
THERE is much talk of the ‘winds of change’, but where are they blowing from? Well-briefed sections of the media and well-connected cabinet ministers tell us that some form of administrative restructuring to create new provinces is inevitable, and that it may come sooner rather than later. We are told it is ‘the will of...