Elahi secures bail in money laundering case also By: Agencies on June 25, 2023Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi on Saturday once again secured post-arrest bail from Lahore’s special central court in a money laundering case. During court proceedings, Advocate Amjad Pervaiz appeared as Elahi’s counsel while Elahi was in jail. Meanwhile, the FIA had opposed the acceptance of his bail plea. Later, judge Bakht Fakhar Bahzad’s court […]
Woman bomber targets police van in Turbat; one martyred By: Agencies on June 25, 2023A police official was martyred and two more injured in a suicide attack on a police van in Balochistan’s Turbat on Saturday, according to Kech Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammad Baloch. The SSP said according to reports from the district, a police van was targeted in a bomb blast at Chakar Azam Chowk by […]
Court acquits Nawaz in plot allotment reference By: APP on June 25, 2023An accountability court on Saturday acquitted ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a plot allotment reference. Accountability Court Judge Rao Abdul Jabbar announced the short order while deciding different objection applications, filed by Yousaf Abbas and other relatives of Nawaz Sharif, against auction of assets owned by the former prime minister. In his final arguments, the […]
Another Sikh trader shot dead in Peshawar By: Agencies on June 25, 2023Unidentified motorcyclists shot dead a Sikh trader, identified as Manmohan Singh, in Peshawar’s Kakshal neighbourhood on Saturday. According to SP City Abdul Salam Khalid, the incident occurred at around 8pm when Singh, who was heading home in Guldara Chowk at the time, was targeted by the motorcyclists, leaving him severely wounded. He stated that the […]
Around 40 missing in Italy migrant boat shipwreck: UN By: AFP on June 25, 2023More than 40 people are missing after a migrant boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN said. The shipwreck took place on Thursday and at least one newborn baby is among those missing, said UNHCR representative to Italy Chiara Cardoletti. The vessel left from Sfax in Tunisia and was carrying 46 migrants […]
UK village remembers US Army racism in World War II By: Agencies on June 25, 2023The village of Bamber Bridge in northwestern England is proud of the blow it struck against racism in the U.S. military during World War II. When an all-Black truck regiment was stationed in the village, residents refused to accept the segregation ingrained in the U.S. Army. Ignoring pressure from British and American authorities, pubs welcomed […]
Bangladesh arrests chief of Islamist militant outfit By: AFP on June 25, 2023Bangladesh police have arrested the leader of an Islamist organisation at his hideout in Dhaka, officers said Saturday, months after the launch of a crackdown against the group. Shamin Mahfuz, the founder of Jamaat al Ansar fil Hindal Sharqiya, is accused of helping to run militant training camps in the country’s restive Chittagong Hill Police […]
UN peacekeepers face pushback in Mali and elsewhere By: AFP on June 25, 2023When Mali recently called for a UN peacekeeping force to depart the country “without delay,” it was the latest sign of unease in parts of Africa over the role of the so-called Blue Helmet operations. Mali Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop last month called for the UN Security Council to withdraw peacekeepers from his country “without […]
Sierra Leone votes amid crippling economic crisis By: AFP on June 25, 2023Sierra Leoneans voted Saturday in a general election in which President Julius Maada Bio is seeking a second term amid a crippling economic crisis that sparked deadly riots last year. One of the world’s poorest countries, Sierra Leone was battered by a brutal 1991-2002 civil war and the Ebola epidemic a decade later. More economic […]
Scots leader says independence to be ‘front and centre’ at next election By: AFP on June 25, 2023The Scottish National Party (SNP) will fight the next general election in the United Kingdom with independence “front and centre” of its campaign, First Minister Humza Yousaf said on Saturday. Addressing a conference of Scotland’s governing party in the city of Dundee, Yousaf vowed he would seek fresh negotiations with the UK government about independence […]