• IHC CJ Dogar to take up petition against Sept 27 protest today • Petitioner fears disruption of routine life, traffic, and businesses, seeks court intervention against use of provincial resources for march • KP CM asks Karachi lawyers to join protest, says Imran not cutting any deals ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has...
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SC upholds Bait-ul-Mal aid for Hindu girls
• Rejects plea against SHC order requiring Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal to pay Rs10,000 per month to each girl, with 10pc annual increase until marriage • CJP says courts may look beyond legal questions to address underlying predicament ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea filed by the Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) challenging the Sindh High...
Israeli strikes kill seven in Lebanon
ARABSALIM: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks after strikes on Sunday killed at least seven people despite a truce and an Israel-Lebanon deal. Mr Aoun said Sunday’s strikes, which damaged government premises and destroyed an out-of-service hospital, were “a dangerous escalation… reaching Lebanese state institutions” and...
Pakistan rejects India’s ‘baseless’ claims on status of occupied Kashmir
The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday rejected Indian claims about the status of occupied Kashmir, saying that the neighbouring country’s “unilateral claims of sovereignty have no bearing on the internationally recognised disputed status of the territory”. The statement came after the United Nations voted on Friday to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries aimed at...
The Inner Reflection : The Water War: Pakistan’s Next Existential Crisis
It is said that life itself was drawn from water, yet if one looks closely at the current stream of our existence, we appear to be drifting toward a desert where thirst will scorch not merely our throats, but our very future. In Pakistan, we have witnessed political rivalries, power struggles, and the turbulence of...
The Kitchen of Necessity: Reflections on the Truest Flavor of Life
There is a quiet honesty that settles over a table when the plates are modest and the day has asked too much of your hands. We live in an age that worships abundance. Shelves groan under imported spices, restaurant menus read like encyclopedias of excess, and we spend a great deal of our lives trying...
HIV Is Treatable. Stigma Can Be Deadly.
When sonia (not her real name), a 22-year-old transgender woman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, learned that she was living with HIV, she did not immediately seek treatment. It was not simply a question of whether medicines or healthcare services were available. She was afraid of what might happen if people around her discovered her HIV status....
2 trapped tunnel workers rescued in Nepal more than a week after catastrophic flash floods
Two hydropower workers were pulled from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal on Friday, more than a week after catastrophic flooding swept through the area, government ministers said. Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled from a muddy opening, video released by the energy ministry showed. He was helped to his feet by rescuers. A photograph...
US House of Representatives passes bill to crack down on university boycotts of Israel
The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic criticism of the Israeli government over the assault in Gaza. The Republican-majority chamber voted 237-169 in favour of the “Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act”, which would have to pass the...
FO says Indian claims about Hindu temple in Narowal ‘false, politically motivated’
The Foreign Office (FO) on Friday rejected claims made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) regarding a Hindu temple in Narowal as “false and politically motivated”, adding that the neighbouring country was “distorting facts and resorting to cheap gimmicks”. According to the government, the over-a-century-old temple in Siraj village had collapsed following torrential rains. A...