US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential race. “I am proud to announce that I’ve asked Tim Walz to be my running mate. As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his. It’s great to have him on the team,” Harris wrote on X. Walz’s nomination comes after Harris won enough Democratic convention delegates last week to secure the party’s presidential nomination. He said it is “the honour of a lifetime” to join Harris on the campaign. “I’m all…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
JENIN: Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory showed no sign of abating. Five people were killed in the Jenin area and four in Aqaba town in Tubas district when Israeli forces carried out early-morning raids, the health ministry in Ramallah said. The Israeli army said three people were killed and two arrested in another raid in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin. The Palestinian Red Crescent had earlier reported deaths and injuries “due to the occupation’s shelling of two vehicles…
The government has advised Pakistani nationals in Lebanon to leave the country due to escalating violence in the region, a statement from the Foreign Office confirmed. As Israel’s onslaught on Gaza continues, security tensions in the region have heightened recently following the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last week. While Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate against Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination, Hezbollah has pledged to respond to the killing of its military chief Faud Shukr in Beirut. “In view of the recent developments and the prevailing security situation in the region, all Pakistanis are advised to avoid…
Pakistan on Wednesday expressed solidarity with the people of Bangladesh and hoped for a “peaceful and swift return to normalcy” after deadly protests led to the end of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s rule two days ago. The statement comes as a caretaker government is expected to be formed under the leadership of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus after student protest leaders asked him to do so. The movement that toppled Hasina rose out of protests against public sector job quotas for families of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war, seen by critics as a means to reserve jobs for allies of the ruling Awami League party.…
Thousands of riot police stood ready on Wednesday as Britain remained on alert for disturbances during far-right protests across the country. Nightly riots, during which mosques and migrant targets have been attacked, erupted after three children were murdered on July 29. Police said they were investigating several racially motivated hate crimes in Belfast on Tuesday, including an attack on a young boy that left him with minor facial injuries. Far-right groups plan demonstrations on Wednesday in more than 30 locations, with immigration lawyers and buildings hosting asylum seekers as primary targets, according to posts on messaging app Telegram leaked to the British…
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has asked federal and provincial authorities to take effective regulatory measures to ensure that the bottled water available in the country was “genuinely safe, clean and beneficial for the well-being of the consumers”. It asked all bottled water companies to submit in court their mechanism with regard to purifying water, its bottling methods and whether any additional treatment or additives were used to ensure water purity. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar also directed the federal and provincial authorities to file reports about their policy regarding the criteria to grant permission/licence for extraction…
ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to daughter of the Supreme Court judge in a hit and run case in which two persons were killed as she surrendered after absconding for over two years. Judicial magistrate Kamran Zaheer Abbasi took up the petition of Shanza Malik, daughter of Supreme Court Judge Justice Malik Shehzad Ahmed Khan seeking her pre-arrest bail in the FIR registered in the Khanna Police Station, Islamabad. Her counsel Mohammad Siddique Awan argued before the court that she has maliciously been implicated in the case by the complainant and the police, with ulterior motives to blackmail…
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Tuesday reviewed the private member bill titled ‘The Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals (Amendment) Bill, 2022’, proposing the establishment of a commission to provide immediate relief to journalists against torture and other woes. The bill was discussed during the meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting chaired by Senator Syed Ali Zafar. The bill’s mover, Senator Saleem Mandviwalla, argued that the purpose of the bill was to protect journalists, their families and properties. “The bill proposes the establishment of a commission to provide immediate relief to journalists against torture and other calamities,” he…
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Tuesday informed the National Assembly that new machinery and software would be installed to increase the printing capacity of passports upto 60,000 per day by the end of September. In response to a ‘Calling Attention Notice’ moved by PPP members in the assembly regarding delays in issuance of passports, the minister expressed optimism that the introduction of the new system would also help clear the existing backlog of the applications. He said during the previous PDM government, orders were issued for the import of the new system and the process had continued under the interim…
LAHORE: The general secretary of the Punjab PPP chapter, Syed Hassan Murtaza, has said that political vendetta will weaken the state and, therefore, no one should be victimised on the basis of one’s political affiliation. Speaking at a ceremony held here on Tuesday to mark the death anniversary of two party workers hanged by the army dictator Gen Ziaul Haq in 1983, he said that no one should be victimised on the basis of one’s political affiliation, warning that such an action would weaken the state. In order to strengthen the country, the Pakistan Peoples Party has weakened itself, he…
