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Pakistan Issues Firm Warning to Iran — Reminds Tehran of Strategic Defence Pact with Saudi Arabia
Islamabad — Pakistan has walked a diplomatic tightrope between its longstanding defence pact with Saudi Arabia and its delicate ties with Iran, resorting to shuttle diplomacy as Middle East tensions escalate following US-Israeli strikes on Tehran. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, addressing the Senate, stated that while Pakistan stands wholeheartedly with Iran,…
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Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Bill 2025 Passes National Assembly — Crypto Regulation Now Law
Islamabad — Pakistan has taken a landmark step in regulating its digital finance landscape as the Virtual Assets Bill 2025 cleared the National Assembly after earlier passing the Senate, paving the way for the formal legal establishment of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), which had been set up through a presidential ordinance in…
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Mojtaba Khamenei Named Iran’s New Supreme Leader Amid Ongoing Strikes — Sources
Tehran / Tel Aviv — Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba has been named as Iran’s new Supreme Leader, according to Iran International, after his father was killed in US-Israeli strikes. The independent news outlet reported that the IRGC heavily pressured the assembled group of clerics to select Mojtaba as the regime’s new leader. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56,…
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IG Punjab Listens to Issues of Police Employees, Orders Immediate Relief
By Muhammad Shahzad | Lahore, PakistanLAHORE: Abdul Kareem, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab, held an open meeting with police personnel and their family members at the Central Police Office, where he listened to their concerns and issued directives for immediate relief.During the session, the IG Punjab reviewed multiple individual requests and instructed senior officers…
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Crackdown Against Profiteering Continues Across Punjab
By Farzana Chaudhry | Lahore, PakistanLAHORE: The crackdown against profiteering continued across Punjab as authorities intensified enforcement to curb overpricing of essential commodities, Secretary Food Safety and Consumer Protection Dr Kiran Khurshid said on Tuesday.According to Dr Kiran Khurshid, price control magistrates carried out raids at more than 72,800 locations across the province in a…
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Why Europes leaders have struggled to speak as one on Iran
The difficulties of acting “as one” , as we now see again over the Middle East, are giving rise to smaller ad-hoc coalitions of countries forming for mutual convenience around different issues: joint defence procurement projects such as the recent UK-Norway Defence Pact to track Russian submarines in the north Atlantic, or the Coalition of…
