Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed all commissioners and deputy commissioners across the province to ensure strict implementation of the one-dish policy at weddings and social events. According to the official directives: Strict action will be taken against loud music played at weddings and other gatherings. Illegal use of loudspeakers, including at qawwali…
Getty Images Members of the National Guard patrolling a metro station in Washington DC A National Guardsman is on the mend after he was critically injured in an ambush-style shooting last month in Washington DC. The parents of Andrew Wolfe, 24, say “his head wound is slowly healing and that he’s beginning to ‘look more…
At least 12 homes were either destroyed or damaged when a wildfire swept through a coastal area north of Sydney, local authorities said. The blaze broke out in the town of Koolewong, New South Wales. Scores of wildfires are burning across the state, fuelled by soaring temperatures. An unnamed local resident said: “You had no…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the Director-General of the ISPR exercised restraint in his recent remarks, adding that he himself would have used even “stronger language” while responding to criticism directed at state institutions. In an official statement, Iqbal recalled that he was once detained in the same cell “under a…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the Director-General of the ISPR exercised restraint in his recent remarks, adding that he himself would have used even “stronger language” while responding to criticism directed at state institutions. In an official statement, Iqbal recalled that he was once detained in the same cell “under a…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the Director-General of the ISPR exercised restraint in his recent remarks, adding that he himself would have used even “stronger language” while responding to criticism directed at state institutions. In an official statement, Iqbal recalled that he was once detained in the same cell “under a…
SIALKOT: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has sharply criticized leaders of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), accusing them of using rhetoric that disrespects the country’s martyrs and undermines national cohesion. Speaking to the media in Sialkot, Asif said that anyone whose language spares “not even the nation’s martyrs” cannot claim moral authority to complain. He…
Border clashes have erupted again between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban forces, with each sides accusing the other of breaking a fragile ceasefire. Residents fled the Afghan city of Spin Boldak overnight, which lies along the 1,600-mile (2,600 km) border between the two countries. A medical worker in the nearby city of Kandahar told BBC Pashto…
Sakshi Venkatraman,US reporterand Harry Sekulich REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the last century, has died aged 96. Gehry was acclaimed for his avant garde, experimental style of architecture. His titanium-covered design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, catapulted him to fame in 1997. His breakthrough in the…
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether the long-standing constitutional right of guaranteed citizenship for those born in the US will remain. On his first day in office in January, President Donald Trump signed an order to end birthright citizenship, but the move was blocked by lower courts after it…
