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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to two senior leaders of his party to hold negotiations with powers-that-be ahead of their November 24 protest in Islamabad. The PTI chief also made it clear that neither he would postpone nor withdraw the protest call […]
ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), and Intelligence Bureau to take joint action against tax evasion on sugar sale, undocumented sales, and price hike. According to an official statement issued by the PM Office, the prime minister said the sugar crushing season […]
ISLAMABAD – The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) has reported another polio case in Pakistan, bringing the total number of cases in 2024 to 50. It reported in media that National Reference Lab identified the latest case involving a 20-month-old girl from Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Tests confirmed the presence of Wild Poliovirus Type-1 […]
Unjust Sentencing under Hong Kong’s National Security Law Press Statement Matthew Miller, Department Spokesperson November 19, 2024 The United States strongly condemns the sentences announced today in Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) trial of pro-democracy advocates, known as the NSL 47. The 45 defendants sentenced today were aggressively prosecuted, and many now face […]
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Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years in a landmark national security trial that has damaged the city’s once feisty democracy movement and drawn international condemnation. A total of 47 pro-democracy activists were arrested and charged in 2021 with conspiracy to commit subversion under […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. They were prosecuted under the 2020 national security law for their roles in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors said their […]
1 The government has issued an ordinance raising the age limit for entering public sector jobs to 32. President Mohammed Shahabuddin issued the ordinance on Monday. The gazette of the ordinance was also published by the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division to expose information to the people yesterday. It sets the same age limit for […]
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court constitutional bench Monday dismissed a petition seeking an order that only candidates who secure more than 50 per cent of the votes in elections can be declared winners. A seven-member bench, headed by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, and comprising Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha Malik, Justice […]