Pakistan: An Islamabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali a physical remand for three days on Tuesday for allegedly “creating a security risk” by removing road barriers. The Islamabad police arrested the couple a day ago for “creating a security risk by interfering in state duties during the visit of an international cricket team.” On October 25, a video purportedly showed Imaan and Ali allegedly moving road barriers to clear the way for traffic. As the lawyers attempted to remove the barriers multiple times, traffic constables and a man in a…
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Pakistan : According to rescue officials, a passenger bus slid off the Hazara Expressway in the Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday morning, causing at least four deaths and three injuries. Amir Khadam, a spokesperson for Rescue 1122, told Dawn.com that the passenger bus was traveling from Gilgit toward Rawalpindi at the time of the accident. He stated that the King Abdullah Hospital in Mansehra was used to transport the deceased and injured. He stated, “The incident occurred as a result of heavy rain, which caused the coaster to slip and skid off the road.” Khadam went on to…
Pakistan : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa On Tuesday, militants shot and killed two police officers protecting a polio vaccination team in the Orakzai district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two attackers were also killed, according to police. Vaccination teams are frequently targeted by militants waging a campaign against security forces, and Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in which polio is still widespread. Pakistan began a week-long vaccination campaign on Monday with the goal of vaccinating over 45 million children under the age of five. A senior Orakzai police officer, Malik Sikandar, told AFP: Police officers protecting a polio vaccination team were attacked…
WASHINGTON: The race between US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Nov. 5 is poised to be one of the closest elections in modern American history. With just a week to go until election day, there is little distance between the candidates in the handful of crucial states that frame the 2024 race. Each of the 50 states in the United States would hold its own presidential election, as stated in the constitution. Each state has a set number of “electors” based on population under the intricate electoral college system. In most states, the winner takes…
TOKYO: On Monday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged to remain in office despite his bet that snap elections would fail and leave his party without a majority for the first time since 2009. After Ishiba took office on October 1, he called Sunday’s election, but voters punished his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955. On Monday, the 67-year-old Ishiba stated that he would not tolerate a “political vacuum” in the fourth-largest economy in the world. After the party scandal, which contributed to Fumio Kishida’s downfall, he stated that “people’s suspicion, mistrust, and anger”…
Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general who was elected as the Lebanese armed group’s leader on Tuesday, has been a prominent member of the organization for more than 30 years. On October 8, Qassem claimed that the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel was a “war” over who cries first, and that Hezbollah would not cry first. He was speaking from an undisclosed location in front of curtains. Despite Israel’s “painful blows,” the group’s capabilities remained intact. He added, however, that the group backed the efforts of parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, to negotiate a ceasefire. For the…
South Korea : As Beijing increases its vigilance against alleged threats to national security, Beijing confirmed on Tuesday that it had detained a South Korean citizen for alleged spying. Citing diplomatic sources in Seoul, the Yonhap news service in South Korea reported on Monday that the man in his 50s had been held by Chinese authorities since late last year. It stated that under a revised anti-espionage law, Chinese prosecutors had formally detained him “a few months ago.” This was the first time a South Korean national had been the target of such a case. On Tuesday, a South Korean…
A United Nations investigation revealed on Tuesday that the civil war in Sudan is rife with apes, particularly paramilitaries, who are accused of engaging in “staggering” levels of sexual violence. A new report from the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan stated that women and girls are being kidnapped for sexual slavery and that children are not spared from the abuse. In a statement, the chairman of the investigation, Mohamed Chande Othman, stated, “There is no safe place in Sudan now.” Since April 2023, the Sudanese army (SAF), commanded by de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the…
Pakistan and Russia : According to a statement released on Tuesday by the military’s media wing, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu of the Pakistan Air Force has emphasized strengthening military ties with Russia through collaborative training programs, joint military drills, and industrial collaboration. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claims that the air chief marshal met with a high-level delegation led by Colonel General Aleksandr V. Fomin, Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister, to discuss expanding military and industrial cooperation. According to the statement, “the meeting also discussed new avenues to fortify existing ties through joint military exercises and technical support for…
Kamala Harris On Tuesday, when she delivers her concluding election argument, Kamala Harris will urge Americans to turn the page on Donald Trump. She will do so in the location where her rival gathered supporters prior to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Democratic vice president’s campaign stated that she chose the symbolic location to promote her argument that the Republican former president is a threat to American democracy, despite polls showing a dead heat exactly one week before Election Day. However, a senior campaign official stated that Harris will also deliver an “optimistic and…
