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LAHORE: PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat was on Thursday arrested in Lahore and shifted to an undisclosed location. Marwat visited the Lahore High Court and spoke to a group of lawyers. On his return, he was arrested at GPO Chowk under…

ISLAMABAD: The district and sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday sentenced Shahnawaz Amir to death with a fine of Rs1 million in the murder case of his wife Sara Inam.  The court acquitted Samina Shah, the mother of the convict, for…

OSLO, ISLAMABAD: Telenor Group today announced the sale of its Pakistan telco operations to Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL).  The sale is part of Telenor’s strategy to build scale and market-leading players in Asia, as…

NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has condemned the terrorist attack on a check post of the army security in Dera Ismail Khan that left 25 soldiers dead on Tuesday. Condemning the attack, the council members in a…

ISLAMABAD: The high court of Islamabad on Thursday issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency and a former secretary ministry of interior on a petition against the jail trial of former prime minister Imran Khan. Imran's petition…

SYDNEY (Reuters): A woman imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children, and pardoned in June, saw her convictions quashed by New South Wales state on Thursday, with her lawyer saying she plans to claim "substantial"…

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Wednesday approved the establishment of a National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). Briefing media after a meeting of the caretaker federal cabinet, minister for information technology (IT)…

DUBAI (Reuters): Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual end of the oil…

RAWALPINDI: The special court indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case in the Adiala jail on Wednesday. The charge sheet accused them of violating the Official Secrets Act…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday suspended implementation of its earlier judgement in which it had declared null and void the trials of civilians in military courts.  The suspension order came on an intra-court appeal…