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ISLAMABAD: Senator Faisal Vawda claimed that former Director General (DG) Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hameed has provided evidence, including devices, against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan. Speaking during ARY News programme ‘ Khabar’ , Senator Faisla Vawda said, “The troubles for the PTI founder and his associates are going to be increased as Faiz Hameed has handed over crucial evidence, including devices, against them.” Faisal Vawda said that Faiz Hameed’s trial has deflated the Imran Khan-led party’s call for civil disobedience. “If Faiz Hameed’s trial had not taken place, the PTI founder, his wife, and associates would not have faced these challenges,” he added. The former minister said that he would not be surprised if the PTI founder faces a military trial. He added that investigations against Faiz Hameed for other offenses are still ongoing. The independent senator also claimed that the PTI is planning to launch a n...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he was pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others who were serving long prison terms. The moves come over a week after the US president signed an unconditional pardon for his son Hunter. Officials said last week that the White House was listening to demands for Joe Biden to extend the same grace to thousands of people wronged by the US judicial system. The commutations on Thursday were announced for those who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The US president said these people would have received shorter sentences if charged under today’s laws, policies and practices. Sources had told Reuters last week that the pardons being discussed included those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and people identified by civil rights groups as unjustly incarcerated. Read more: Joe Biden says he has pardoned his son, Hunter “As president, I have the...

KARACHI: A report has revealed the shocking details regarding a police encounter in Oragni Town’s Pirabad area in which two alleged dacoits were killed, ARY News reported. Karachi police on December 3 claimed the killing of two dacoits Bilawal and Naqqash during a robbery at the house of a man identified as Mubarak Shah in Orangi Town. However, relatives of the dacoits protested, saying that the boys were innocent. They alleged the police killed both boys in a fake encounter. An investigation into the incident revealed that the robbery plan was hatched by three girls, including the niece of the house owner, a home tutor, and her sister in the house located in Orangi Town. According to the inquiry, Sabira, Mubarak Shah’s niece, devised the plan with Munnaza, who used to tutor Shah’s kids, and her sister Laiba. “Laiba persuaded her boyfriend Bilawal to commit the robbery, who along with his friend Naqqash entered Mubarak Shah’s house disguised as women in burqas,” the report said. ...

Saudi Arabia will host the men’s soccer World Cup in 2034 while the 2030 edition will be held in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with one-off matches in three South American countries, world soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Wednesday. The decision was announced by FIFA President Gianni Infantino following a virtual extraordinary Congress. The 2030 and 2034 World Cups each had only a single bid and both were confirmed by acclamation. “We are bringing football to more countries and the number of teams has not diluted the quality. It actually enhanced the opportunity,” Infantino said about the 2030 World Cup. “What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary in 2030 than to have the World Cup in six countries, in three continents, with 48 teams and 104 epic matches. The world will stand still and will celebrate the 100 years of the World Cup. “Congratulations to all the bidders for putting up a great dossier, but I would like to put on record my big, big thank you to the six confe...

KARACHI: The trend of migration in educated Pakistani youth is increasing exorbitantly, according to a report by PIDE. A report by the think tank Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) explained that disappointment with the future and the feeling of insecurity in Pakistani youth were among the major reasons for the brain drain. According to the figures by Overseas and Immigration of Pakistan, around 281,000 Pakistani citizens have moved to other countries in search of employment opportunities in 2024. It refuted the 700,000 figure given by a Gallup Pakistan’s representative in the “Subah Bakhair” program. Meanwhile, the PIDE report suggested that around 70 percent of educated youngsters, male and female, want to migrate due to economic instability and unemployment in Pakistan. A PIDE report in 2022 said that “62 percent of the educated young population of Pakistan, aged between 15 to 24 years want to leave the country as they are disappointed with their future”. Read...

BEIRUT: Four Israeli soldiers who were killed in southern Lebanon were likely killed in an accidental detonation of explosives as they demolished a Hezbollah tunnel laden with weapons, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Monday. The Israeli military said that four soldiers killed in combat, without providing further details. Army Radio said that the incident happened on Sunday and that an initial review found that the detonation set off secondary explosions, leading to the collapse of the tunnel while the soldiers were in it. Israeli authorities did not blame the explosion on Hezbollah or say it was a violation of the Nov. 26 ceasefire agreement, though the two sides have accused each other of other infractions over the past two weeks. A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah was held last month after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, a rare victory for diplomacy in the Middle East wracked by two wars for over a year. Israel-Hezbollah ceasefi...

SYRIA: Bewildered and elated prisoners poured out of Syrian jails on Sunday, shouting with joy as they emerged from one of the world’s most notorious detention systems and walked to freedom following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government. All across Syria, families wept as they were reunited with children, siblings, spouses and parents who vanished years ago into the impregnable gulag of the Assad dynasty’s five-decade rule. A video verified by Reuters showed newly freed prisoners ran through the Damascus streets in Syria, holding up the fingers of both hands to show how many years they had been in prison, asking passers-by what had happened, not immediately understanding that Assad had fallen. “We toppled the regime!” a voice shouted and a prisoner yelled and skipped with delight in the same video. A man watching the prisoners rush through the dawn streets put his hands to head, exclaiming with wonder: “Oh my god, the prisoners!” Read More: Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani: f...