ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday, hearing a case against the transfer and posting of police officers, noted political interference in Punjab police, stating that the department was “deliberately” deprived of training and authority, and emphasised the need to impart training on police to improve the criminal justice system.
On Friday, earthquake with a 4.2 magnitude rocked Islamabad and the surrounding territories.
Asif Ali Zardari, the president of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), visited Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday night at the PM’s residence to discuss the government’s potential next steps in the wake of President Dr. Arif Alvi’s attempt to compel the ruling alliance to hold elections in two provinces.
Despite his commitment to stand up to the media on Meghan Markle’s behalf, Prince Harry ‘abandoned’ the actress “in the middle of peril.”
On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.N. General Assembly is set to vote late Thursday afternoon on a resolution that underscores the need for peace ensuring the country’s “sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity”.
On Tuesday, a parliamentary committee was informed that the leopard who scared housing society members was a wild animal and that the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) was in contact with outside specialists to get it returned to its natural habitat.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday claimed that the party’s top brass is being transported to an undisclosed location from Kot Lakhpat jail a day after PTI leaders and activists started voluntarily presenting themselves for arrest in Lahore under the party’s “Jail Bharo Tehreek”.
Ramiz Raja, a former cricketer, has criticised Karachi Kings president Wasim Akram’s conduct after his team’s loss to Multan Sultans on Wednesday in a thrilling last-ball match.
Peshawar Zalmi will play Islamabad United tonight in another high-profile match in the eighth season of the Pakistan Super League.
A remote community in the Australian outback was shocked over the weekend when small, live fish began falling from the heavens.
ANTAKYA: After the third significant earthquake in two weeks intensified an exodus from the once-vibrant metropolis, trucks, emergency vehicles, and excavators lined the deserted streets of Antakya in Turkey on Tuesday night.
CHICAGO: A significant winter storm that hit the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest on Wednesday caused hundreds of schools to close, grounded flights, and made travel challenging, if not impossible, in several parts of the US.
