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US, Iran officials make first direct contact since war, s...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian Foreign Ministe...
Pakistani forces strike Afghan Taliban’s military install...
BEIJING/PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces targeted the Afghan Taliban’s military installation...
PM orders salaries for govt employees before Eid
• Premier tasks Intelligence Bureau to monitor compliance with fuel austerity measures• Pakistan ...
Subsidised fuel scheme on the cards for bikes, rickshaws
• Senate panel told ample petrol, diesel available; import of lower-quality fuel okayed; price hi...
Minab school strike violated humanitarian law: Amnesty
ISLAMABAD: An investigation by Amnesty International into an airstrike on an Iranian school – whi...
Federal Constitutional Court snubs judges on premature ci...
• Reserved rulings should be announced within 90 days, bench holds• Judgement harks back to ‘prem...
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60pc of Shalimar Express coaches ‘didn’t have brakes’: Pakistan Railway
• Inspection in Sukkur finds fault with 10 of train’s 18 carriages• Initial inquiry blames driver and assistant for Naushahro Feroze accident despite defects LAHORE: An initial inspection carried o...
Analysis by Khalid Hasnain
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PTI files disqualification plea against Abro, again
ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has filed a reference with the Senate secretariat seeking disqualification of Senator Saifullah Abro for voting in favour of the 27th Amendment agai...
Analysis by Iftikhar A. Khan
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Gul Plaza built in violation of approved building plan, Sindh Building Control Authority tells commission
• In his reply, authority’s chief denies regulatory lapse that contributed to Jan 17 deadly fire• Says three-storey shopping mall regularised under an amnesty scheme over two decades ago KARACHI: T...
Analysis by Ishaq Tanoli
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Bogey of a religious war
SHIA-Sunni. Arab-Persian. Jew-Muslim. Christian-Muslim. These are false binaries being thrown into the mix in the context of the war on Iran, and it’s been this way since well before the build-up t...
Analysis by Jawed Naqvi
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Speaking matters
IT was on the previous Friday (March 6) that the government raised petrol prices. And while the news about the price hike began doing the rounds shortly before it was announced, the amount took eve...
Analysis by Arifa Noor
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