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PESHAWAR: Chief Justice (CJ) Peshawar High Court (PHC) Justice Mussarat Hilali urged swift disposal of family cases and to provide the best facilities to prisoners. She said this in a meeting attended by all District and Sessions Judges of the province, said a press release issued here on Sunday. CJ emphasized the significance of family cases and called upon Family Judges...

LOWER DIR: Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) for Political and Public Affairs and National Heritage Engr Amir Muqam here on Sunday said that May 28 had importance in Pakistan's historic day as on the day 25 years ago, Pakistan's defence was made impregnable after successful nuclear tests by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government at Chaghi mountains, Balochistan...

Gujranwala: In a joint operation, the Gujranwala Development Authority and Municipal Corporation on Sunday demolished the illegally constructed roads and sheds in the G. Magnolia Park Housing Society owned by Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi's close friend Farah Gogi, officials said. A case was registered against Farah Gogi and her husband Ahsan Jameel Gujjar for map violation. According to the...

MIRPUR: The silver jubilee of nuclear tests by Pakistan was commemorated in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday with full zeal and fervor to remember nuclear tests conducted on this day in 1998. Speakers in special ceremonies, hosted to mark youm-e-takbeer in various parts of AJK including Mirpur and the capital city of Muzaffarabad to celebrate the historic day,...

NARANG MUNDI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Rana Tanveer Hussain, has called for the banning of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), stating that it is no longer a political entity after the attack on military installations that took place on May 9. In a statement on Sunday, he made sarcastic remarks about party leaders leaving the PTI, questioning the government's...

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday commended the role and struggle of scientists, engineers, political and military leadership to make Pakistan a nuclear power. He felicitated the Pakistani nation on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Youm-e-Takbeer. President Arif Alvi said, in response to India’s nuclear tests, Pakistan conducted nuclear tests 25 years ago on the day that was essential...

ISLAMABAD: Mushaal Hussein Mullick, the Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation and wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Yasin Malik, has urged the government of Pakistan to raise the issue of senior Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s detention at all fora globally because the notorious Narendra Modi fascist regime is hell-bent to silence the most powerful voice of Kashmir...

LAHORE: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid on Sunday warned that the ruling party would reap the harvest tomorrow of what they were sowing currently. In a series of tweets, the former interior minister, who is still standing by PTI Chairman Imran despite many of his own close aides leaving the party after the May 9 episode, remarked that...

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Planning and Development (P&D) is facing administrative challenges in preparing for its Annual Developmental Program (ADP). The department made three changes to the approved ADP within a week, leading to a lack of progress in the program thus far. In an effort to address this issue, the P&D has issued guidelines for a four-month developmental program,...

PARIS: Aryna Sabalenka kept her cool to win a politically-charged French Open duel against Marta Kostyuk on Sunday as jeers rained down after the defeated Ukrainian refused to shake hands with her Belarusian opponent. World number two and Australian Open champion Sabalenka swept 10 of the last 12 games to win 6-3, 6-2 as she kick-started her push to reach...

LANZHOU: An international research team has developed a new method to treat celiac disease, according to Lanzhou University in northwest China's Gansu Province. The study conducted by Chinese, Pakistani and other overseas researchers has been published in the journal Food Research International. Aman Khan, leader of the study and a Pakistani postdoctoral fellow at Lanzhou University, has been engaged in research...

LAHORE: Imran Khan accused Rana Sanaullah Khan of attempting a "cover-up" after the interior minister claimed intelligence agencies intercepted a plan by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to “stage a raid and rape at a known party leader's house” to gain sympathy as the military seeks to destroy former prime minister's support ahead of elections. Khan's response came after the minister...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin ul-Haque said that artificial intelligence (AI) use and its promotion in the country is the need of the hour for national development. Pakistan has to progress in multiple fields, especially in artificial intelligence in order to move alongside the digital world, the minister said in an official meeting on AI. Haque highlighted...

ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) said it had foiled four separate bids to smuggle over 844.5 kilogrammes of drugs in total in the country. According to a statement, the ANF launched four operations in different areas of the country and arrested four smugglers besides seizing the drugs. In one of the operations, the ANF acting on an intelligence tip-off conducted a...

ISLAMABAD: The Global Development Initiative (GDI) proposed by China is aimed at accelerating the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by focusing on people-oriented development, experts from Pakistan said. The GDI promotes stronger, greener and healthier global development by revitalising global development cooperation and partnerships with countries and organisations around the world, said the experts and academics...