China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe successfully landed on Sunday on the far side of the Moon to collect samples, state media reported — the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme. The Chang’e-6 set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the China National Space Administration. It marks the first time that samples will be collected from the rarely explored area of the Moon, according to the agency. The Chang’e-6 is on a technically complex 53-day mission that began on May 3. On Sunday, it descended from its orbit…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
LAHORE: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Supreme Court has called for coexistence and tolerance in society, pointing out that Pakistan is among the lowest-ranking countries when it comes to religious freedom. Justice Shah said all non-Muslim communities in Pakistan “are dear to us, and we all love them”, expressing his wish to see elevation of judges in the higher courts from the minority communities as well, though he added the term ‘minority’ was not suitable for them, as it only represents their numbers. He expressed these views while addressing the Justice A.R. Cornelius Conference, hosted by a minority…
TAXILA: A court sentenced a child molester to five years in jail, besides imposing a fine of Rs50,000 on him in Fatehjang on Saturday. Additional Sessions Judge Umer Rasheed gave the verdict after the prosecution proved charges against him. Fatehjang police have registered the case on the complaint of his father under section 377 and 511 of the PPC. The court, after hearing arguments from both sides and recording statements of the complainant and victim, awarded the sentence to the accused. The verdict further said that in case the convict failed to pay the fine he would have to undergo…
ISLAMABAD: Wife of the Vietnamese ambassador was found at a restaurant four hours after she went missing on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Taqi Jawad told Dawn that at around 12 noon the ambassador called the police helpline and said his wife was missing for the last an hour. Inspector General of Police Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi and other officers reached the ambassador’s residence at F-8. The ambassador told the police that his wife had left for a beauty salon saying she would return in an hour. Later, it transpired that she had left her mobile phone and purse in the house.…
LAHORE: Two key PML-N and PPP leaders on Saturday reiterated the desire to hold talks with the PTI, but lamented that the party didn’t intend to have a dialogue with political forces. Talking to the media in Lahore, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said talks with PTI could only take place if the party “apologises for its mistakes”. The KP governor, who belongs to PPP, said PTI was a political force, but if the party wants to return to power with support of the establishment, nothing can be done. “If the PTI wants to sit with political forces and…
KARACHI: A senior government official, who has recently been removed by the provincial government from the chairmanship of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), has alleged that a “system of corruption” in the provincial anti-graft watchdog was being run by a “private person” and that he was sacked only because he refused to become part of the corrupt system. On May 31, the Sindh government had transferred ACE chairman Farhat Junejo, a BS-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, and directed him to report to Service, General Administration and Coordination department with immediate effect. While the Sindh government did not give…
TAXILA: A milkman was shot dead by armed robbers in Banni mohalla area in the limits of Taxila police station on Saturday. According to the eye witnesses, 21-year-old Habibur Rehman was going to his cattle yard after delivering milk, when three armed robbers intercepted him and tried to snatch his motorcycle and valuables. When he resisted, the robbers shot him dead and fled with looted items. Separately, two armed robbers snatched cash and valuables from Mohammad Irfan at gunpoint in Galli Darian and fled. In another incidents, two armed men snatched cash and mobile phones from Mohammad Miraj in Jameelabad…
GUJRAT: Rescue 1122, local administration and the forest department have successfully doused the fires that broke out in various parts of the Pabbi forest area in the last three days. Official sources said the fire first broke out near Mohri village on May 29; however, only grass and bushes were initially burnt as the rescue officials extinguished the fire without hours. They said that the fire again broke out in the forest area between Kharian and Sara-i-Alamgir on Friday evening and this time it engulfed the area going deep into the forest, making it difficult for the rescue teams to…
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) said on Saturday it will commence from next week the jail trial of four cases relating to torching police vehicles during the May 9 riots. Judge Khalid Arshad made it clear that a jail trial does not mean there would be no justice. The judge was hearing the cases when PTI social media activist Ayesha Ali Bhutto and former MNA Rubina appeared before the court. The judge issued bailable arrest warrants of those suspects who despite being on bail did not attend the hearing. Incarcerated PTI leaders, including Senator Ijaz Chaudhry, Dr Yasmin Rashid, former governor…
MUZAFFARABAD: The under-arrest Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad Shah was brought to a health facility in Muzaffarabad on Saturday for his medical check-up hours after his counsel had made a plea to this effect to an anti-terrorism court, hearing his bail petition. The petition was initially filed by local lawyer Syed Zulqarnain Naqvi on Thursday in the sessions court of Muzaffarabad, also the district’s anti-terrorism court. However, it could not be taken up on Friday following an adjournment request by the police who said they had asked the government for appointment of a special prosecutor to represent them. The case was fixed for…
