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LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday granted protective bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan till March 3 in a terrorism case. The case was registered on charges of rioting and clashes with Islamabad police in October in the aftermath of his disqualification by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the Toshakhana reference. His plea...

ANTAKYA, TURKEY: Turkey on Sunday said rescue efforts following last week's devastating earthquake had ended in all but two provinces as visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $100 million in fresh humanitarian aid. The 7.8-magnitude tremor that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 has killed more than 44,000 people, with the likelihood of finding survivors...

DHAKA: The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign governments including the United States have long expressed worries about efforts by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to silence criticism and what they see as creeping authoritarianism. The...

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Inter-Varsity Gymnastics Championship 2023 concluded on a high note with the GC University Lahore clinching the championship trophy here on Monday. More than eleven universities participated in the tournament held under the auspices of Higher Education Commission at GCU Sports Hall. GC University Lahore Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Asghar Zaidi, Director of Sports Wasim Akhtar, and officials...

LAHORE: The landmark 9th JA Zaman Memorial Open Golf Championship will go under way from Tuesday (today) at Lahore Gymkhana Golf Club. This was stated by Sarmad Nadeem of Lahore Gymkhana Golf Club at a media conference, attended and addressed by Hamid Zaman, head of Zaman Family, Bilal Zaman, Taha Mehmood, Captain Golf and Ayesha Hamid, Lady Captain of Gymkhana...

KARACHI: All-rounders James Neesham and Rovman Powell played sensible knocks in the run chase to steer Peshawar Zalmi to a convincing four-wicket victory over Quetta Gladiators in the ninth match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) season eight. Set to chase 155, Zalmi amassed the target in the 19th over with four wickets to spare at the back of a...

LAHORE: The 2nd Ghazala Ansari Challenge Cup Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, a world amateur golf ranking event, culminated with a graceful prize distribution ceremony held at the historic Lahore Gymkhana Golf Club. The most striking feature of this unique event was the ambience of Ghazala Ansari’s presence that prevailed throughout the Lahore Gymkhana Golf Club on all three days. Equally...

BEIJING: Beijing strongly denied on Monday US claims that China was considering arming Russia in its war against Ukraine, as it reiterated a call for dialogue to end the conflict. On Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Beijing was now "considering providing lethal support" to Moscow ranging "from ammunition to the weapons themselves". "It is the United States and...

The surest way to mislead yourself is to love and revere an individual or a group so much as to consider them infallible on any and all matters. ‘If such-and-such says so, it must necessarily be right, and ipso facto worth emulating’, or so this type of ‘reasoning’ goes. Paradoxically, a close-second to this self-deception technique lies at the other...

About couple of months and so back, worthy Vice-Chancellor of Harper University, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Professor Dr Shakilur Rehman while speaking at a gathering has expressed his deep concern quite emphatically about increasing trend of committing suicide among the students. This obviously warranted immediate attention of the parents, teachers, educational institutions and official quarters concerned of the federal and provincial governments and all line departments downwards. Quite pertinently...

For the past 75 years, the Palestinians have raised four generations of aspiring youth who, like their counterparts in Israel and other advanced countries, dream of growing and flourishing while making their own mark by contributing to their community’s and their country’s prosperity and growth. They have failed not because they are incapable, or less talented, or unworthy of...

While the judiciary and its workings have been the cause of high drama yesterday, it would do us, as a polity, well to take a step back and look at the malaise that surrounds the mechanics of our judicial system. The hamfisted, intrinsically defective case against Ali Wazir is a case in point, where an elected representative of a constituency...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had made the Constitution, law, and judicial system a joke and instigated his party workers to attack the Lahore High Court. Talking to the media here at the Parliament House, she said Imran Khan should be taken to task for provoking his workers...

By virtue of the 18th Amendment, the labour laws were devolved to the provinces in April 2010. While all the other labour laws were transferred to the provinces, the federal government for some inexplicable reasons retained the management of the Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) which was constituted under an Act of parliament passed in 1976. Since then, the...

This is with reference to the editorial ‘Call for arms’ (Jan 27). It is unfortunate to say that the government has abdicated its responsibility by employing private workers or individuals to fight street crimes. Handing over its duty in sectors like health and education is quite different from letting private workers take over law and order situation in a...