Pakistan is once again confronting a painful question: How many innocent women and girls must suffer before society stops treating violence against them as an isolated crime? In recent weeks, a series of deeply disturbing cases has shaken the country. The alleged sexual assault and subsequent death of 18-month-old Aizal in Karachi, the disappearance and...
Author: Team IBC English (Team IBC English)
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Qatar PM to visit Tehran to pursue US-Iran mediation efforts
Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in an effort to relaunch diplomacy after the United States and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure on Tehran by targeting its trade partners for sanctions. Qatar, a Gulf neighbour of Iran and a US ally, has served as a back-channel negotiator for...
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Trial for accused mastermind of 9/11 attacks set for June 2028
A US Air Force judge on Wednesday ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and three co-defendants to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028. The trial-scheduling order entered by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Schrama marked the latest milestone in a military prosecution beset by two decades of...
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After deadly blaze at Pims, hospitals in Punjab told to ensure fire safety
Hospitals and relevant authorities across Punjab have been directed to take fire safety measures, with provincial chief executive Maryam Nawaz instructing a fresh audit of arrangements at healthcare facilities. The directives have been issued after a deadly fire killed 14 infants at Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Wednesday. The fire broke out on the...
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The Prophetic Political Ethos: A Message for the Contemporary Age
Throughout the vast theatre of history, innumerable thrones have risen, countless crowns have glittered, and empires intoxicated by the magnificence of their own power have cast their shadows across successive ages; yet the inexorable dust of time has effaced the traces of them all. There arose, however, one polity whose authority rested less upon the...
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Tragic Incident at PIMS Hospital: 15 Newborns Lose Lives in Nursery Fire
A devastating fire broke out in the nursery unit of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital in Islamabad, resulting in the tragic deaths of 15 newborn infants, hospital officials confirmed. Rescue authorities reported that the blaze has been successfully brought under control, and cooling operations are currently underway following the immediate response of...
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US announces plan for ‘economic onslaught’ on Iran
• Tehran laughs off Trump, Bessent’s claims of ‘economic D-Day’ • Treasury secretary doesn’t divulge specifics, or which countries will be targeted • China vows to defend its interests; Xi calls for diplomatic solution WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday announced a possible expansion of sanctions on countries doing business with Iran, but stopped...
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Govt fails to maintain quorum as PPP stays away from National Assembly
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N on Monday suffered an embarrassing setback in the National Assembly as the lower house was adjourned within minutes for lack of quorum after its estranged ally, the PPP, stayed away from the proceedings over the alleged rigging in the recently-held Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections. The government failed to muster the required...
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Child among three killed in fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza
GAZA CITY: Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip killed three people on Sunday, including a child, rescuers said. An air strike killed two people in the town of Al-Zawayda, including a four-year-old child named Muhammad Abdel Salam Taha, according to the Palestinian civil defence rescue service. “The two martyrs as well as several wounded...
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Info ministry says video of Asif comparing Pakistan’s progress with India’s is fake
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday said that a video of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif comparing Pakistan’s progress with India’s was “fake”, adding that the PML-N leader had not made any such statement. The ministry shared the purported clip of the minister on its X account. The nearly minute-long video appeared to show...