Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a televised addressed to the nation on Independence Day, said that the past two years were difficult, but things were now “improving”. “We had a very difficult two years. We didn’t have foreign exchange and couldn’t pay our debts,” he said on Friday. “We have avoided a huge crisis because we didn’t […]
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KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday again came down heavily on K-Electric over prolonged loadshedding and sought details from the federal government about its future plan to supply electricity to the provincial metropolis and end power cuts. While heading a three-judge bench, Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed said that there were also grievances against […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday strongly reacted in the Senate to a statement made by Attorney General (AG) Khalid Jawed Khan in the Supreme Court that the federation was weighing constitutional and legal options with reference to Karachi and asked Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to summon the top government lawyer before the house […]
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab was expected to announce his government’s resignation Monday amid popular outrage over the deadly Beirut port explosion that has reignited angry street protests. The under-fire cabinet, struggling to weather the political storm, met amid widespread demands for an end to an entrenched political system widely seen as inept, corrupt […]
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MINSK: Police in Belarus detained 3,000 people for taking part in unauthorised gatherings during post-election demonstrations on Sunday, the interior ministry said, accusing some protesters of sparking clashes with police. The ministry said in a statement that 1,000 of the detentions were in the capital Minsk and the rest in other parts of the country. […]
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FARASIN: Israeli government has threatened to destroy Ahmed Amarneh’s home, built inside a cave with a wooden door opening onto cushion-lined rooms, in the foothills overlooking Farasin. However, this is not the first Palestinian residence in the occupied West Bank to receive a demolition notice from Israel. But it may be the first built inside […]
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KHARTOUM: The trial of Sudan’s ousted ex-president Omar al-Bashir was delayed Monday at the request of his defence, a prosecution lawyer said. The trial of Bashir over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago, as well as of 27 other defendants, opened with a brief hearing in July. The […]
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TAIPEI: US Health Secretary Alex Azar met Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in what is the highest level visit from a US official since it switched diplomatic recognition from the island to China in 1979, a trip that Beijing has condemned. Health Secretary Alex Azar is in Taipei for a three-day visit to promote shared […]
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BEIRUT: Two cabinet members of Lebanon’s government resigned from their posts over a deadly blast that has caught the ire of the people, as battles continued between police and citizens in the capital for a second day. As hopes faded of finding any survivors of Tuesday’s explosion, information minister Manal Abdel Samad and environment minister […]
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BEIRUT: The huge chemical explosion that hit Beirut’s port, devastating large parts of the Lebanese capital and claiming over 150 lives, left a 43-metre (141 foot) deep crater, a security official said on Sunday. The blast on Tuesday, which was felt across the county and as far as the island of Cyprus, was recorded by […]
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