GUJRAT: In a shocking incident, the case of rape of at least five underage schoolgirls by the husband of their schoolteacher at a government school has surfaced in Saleem Colony (Therri Sansi) of Gujranwala. Reports said the suspect was running a canteen at the non-formal literacy centre where his wife was a teacher. The suspect had been raping the minor girls, belonging to the age group of 11 to 14 years, for quite some time. He would also make the pictures and videos of the victim girls in compromising condition to blackmail them to keep them silent. However, one of…
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Pakistan’s Haider Ali won bronze in the Men’s Discus Throw F37 on Friday with a 52.54m throw, clinching his fourth Paralympic medal. Uzbekistan’s Tolibboy Yuldashev took home gold with a massive 57.28m throw, setting a personal best on his sixth attempt. Canada’s Jesse Zesseu won silver with a 53.24m throw. A jubilant Ali could be seen taking his victory lap after the competition was over, hugging the other medallists and competitors in the process. Ali led the field in the first attempt with a solid 52.28m throw, his season’s best since the Paralympics marked his first competition of the year. But Zesseu…
The nation marked its 59th Defence Day on Friday to commemorate the sacrifices of fallen heroes of the 1965 war against India. A change of guards was held in major centres, including the Quaid’s mausoleum in Karachi and Allama Iqbal’s in Lahore. According to state-owned Radio Pakistan, “It was on this day in 1965 the Indian forces crossed international border in the darkness of night to attack Pakistan but the nation foiled nefarious designs of the enemy.” A statement was issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on behalf of the chairman joint chiefs of staff committee, Services Chiefs and Armed Forces,…
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the removal of Lieutenant General Munir Afsar as the current National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) chairman, stating that his appointment to the position was “unauthorised” and in violation of Nadra’s rules. In October 2023, Lt Gen Afsar became the first serving military officer to be appointed as Nadra’s chairman. The appointment was initially made by the caretaker government led by the then-prime minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar and later confirmed by the elected federal government for a three-year term in March 2024. The petition was filed by citizen Ashba Kamran, who challenged that the appointment of…
The Supreme Court on Friday restored changes to the country’s anti-graft laws, accepting the federal government’s appeal against the court’s Sept 15 verdict which struck down those amendments. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa pronounced the verdict reserved by a five-member bench on June 6 after hearing intra-court appeals (ICAs) filed by the federal government and other parties. SC sets aside Sept 15 verdict, dismisses Imran’s 2022 plea Court says previous ruling “rewrites the Constitution”, did not show how changes to NAB law violated basic rights Justice Minallah supports verdict by accepting private citizens’ appeal but rejects govt’s Legal expert says PDM govt’s “act of desperation” legalised In September 2023, then-CJP Umar Ata…
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that it was ensuring IT exporters had “uninterrupted access” while staying “connected and safe” when delivering internationally, a press release issued on Thursday said. The statement, seen by Dawn.com on Friday, comes amid an ongoing slowdown of internet services in the country, affecting both users and businesses. Last month, the business community and internet service providers (ISPs) had alleged that the government’s efforts to monitor internet traffic — including a so-called ‘firewall’ — had caused the slowdown of digital services, resulting in economic losses. While the country’s information technology minister, Shaza Fatima Khawaja, had confirmed that the government was upgrading its “web…
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Danish police detained activist Greta Thunberg at a Copenhagen protest against the situation in Gaza and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the organisers of the demonstration said. Thunberg was later released from detention, according to Danish media reports, and the daily Ekstra Bladet showed video footage of her walking out of a police station. Six people had been detained at Copenhagen University after about 20 people blocked the entrance to a building and three entered, a police spokesperson said without commenting on individual detainees. Widely known for her campaign to end man-made climate change, Swedish-born Thunberg…
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range US missiles to Ukraine, warned the United States on Wednesday not to joke about Russia’s “red lines”. Lavrov said the US was losing sight of the sense of mutual deterrence that had underpinned the balance of security between Moscow and Washington since the Cold War, and that this was dangerous. He was commenting on a report that the US is close to an agreement to supply Ukraine with long-range JASSM cruise missiles that could reach deep inside Russia — for which Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died after being set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, Uganda’s Olympic Committee chief said on Thursday. “We have learnt of the sad passing on of our Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei… following a vicious attack by her boyfriend,” Donald Rukare said in a post on X. Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body, the acting head of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the Rift Valley city of Eldorect where she was being treated, had told reporters on Tuesday. “All her organs failed last night,” a…
