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Banned JAAC central leader Shaukat Nawaz Mir arrested: Muzaffarabad DC
DHIRKOT: Central leader of the banned Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), Shaukat Nawaz Mir, was arrested along with an associate in Dhirkot, Muzaffarabad Deputy Commissioner Munir Qureshi said on Tuesday. The DC said Mir was arrested by police and security personnel from the Hail Sarang area. It is noteworthy to mention here that…
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MQM-P holds consultation on budget strategy, urban Sindh development
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) held a consultative meeting on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui to discuss the party’s proposals for the recently passed Federal Budget 2026-27 and its political strategy, according to a party spokesperson. The meeting was attended by former Sindh governor Kamran Tessori, senior party leaders Dr Farooq Sattar…
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Pakistan downs four Afghan Taliban drones along Balochistan border
The Pakistani military has downed four drones launched by the Afghan Taliban along the Balochistan border, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. In a statement, the military’s media wing said that the Taliban regime had launched the “rudimentary” drones as part of their patronisation and support of terrorist outfits operating from inside their…
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Climate minister casts Indus Waters Treaty dispute as global test of ‘water justice’
Minister for Climate Change Musadik Malik delivered an impassioned address this week, framing the unravelling of the Indus Waters Treaty as a defining test case for water rights of downstream nations worldwide. Malik opened with the story of Iqbal Solangi, a Pakistani farmer whose family had worked the land for seven or eight generations before…
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Pakistan rejects India’s preposterous statement on strikes against Afghan terror infrastructure
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India’s statement on Islamabad’s military strikes against terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan, calling it “baseless and preposterous”. “Pakistan rejects the baseless statement on its legitimate, targeted and proportionate actions against terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, in a statement issued on X. “This preposterous statement has been made…
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Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers
PARIS: A large asteroid that will zoom harmlessly past Earth on Saturday will be visible to stargazers using a small telescope or large binoculars, the European Space Agency announced Wednesday. The asteroid will come within 2,560,000 kilometres of Earth at 1114 GMT on Saturday, which is more than six times the distance between the Earth…
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Applications invited for VCs in public sector’s medical universities
Punjab government has sought applications for the post of Vice Chancellors (VCs) for various public sector’s medical universities, The applications have been invited for the post of VCs of King Edward, UHS, Fatima Jinnah Medical University Lahore, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi Medical University. The deadline of the applications has been set till July 20. The age…
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US allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
WASHINGTON: Anthropic said on Friday that the U.S. government has allowed it to release its powerful Claude Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model to some “trusted” U.S. organizations, partially reversing a two-week-old order to suspend access over national security risks. More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, including many Fortune…
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DR Congo dreams of England World Cup upset
DR Congo’s long road to a first World Cup in 52 years has been beset by challenges that their English opponents in the last 32 on Wednesday could scarcely imagine. Despite having to navigate 13 qualifiers, a pre-tournament quarantine due to an Ebola outbreak and the instability caused by decades of conflict, the war-torn nation…
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Gold prices in Pakistan decrease – June 30, 2026
KARACHI: Gold prices in Pakistan extended their downward trend on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in line with a decline in the international bullion market amid easing geopolitical tensions. According to the All Pakistan Sarafa Gems and Jewellers Association, the price of 24-karat gold fell by Rs4,100 per tola to Rs424,836. Similarly, the price of 10 grams of…
