LONDON: Newly-elected Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly lawmaker Rukhsar Ahmed has denied being involved in grooming gang crimes in the UK and has stressed his innocence. The Guardian disclosed last week that Ahmed, a former Azad Kashmir minister, was arrested at Manchester airport in July 2024 on suspicion of raping and trafficking at least…

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MATIARI : Persons with disabilities staged a protest outside the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office in Matiari against the alleged denial of employment under the disability quota. The protesters, including Wasim Ahmed, Saqeeldino Anar, Sohail Mirjat, Sajid Memon, Arsalan Memon, Muzaffar Khoso, Ayaz Memon and Mubeen Jamali, said they had reached the DC office to demand…

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MIRPURKHAS: Three suspects arrested in connection with the Suaira Laghari murder case — Irfan Ghouri, Imran Ghouri and Munir Rajput — were produced before the court of Civil, Family and Judicial Magistrate Maryam Saba. The police requested the court to grant 14 days of physical remand of all three suspects for further investigation. After hearing…

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SUKKUR (Bureau Report): A family from the New Pind Islam Colony area of Sukkur staged a protest outside the Sukkur Press Club, alleging that their 16-year-old daughter, Afroz, had been abducted and forcibly married. The family demanded her immediate recovery and the arrest of those allegedly involved. The protest was led by Khair Muhammad Korkhani,…

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SUKKUR : The District Council Employees Labour Union (CBA) Sukkur staged a protest outside the Sukkur Press Club against the alleged failure to accept their legitimate demands and announced a four-phase protest movement if their issues were not resolved. The protesters demanded immediate acceptance of their demands, resolution of employees’ problems and an end to…

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SUKKUR (Bureau Report): An elderly woman, identified as Shamim Iqbal Ansari, a resident of Baban Shah Graveyard area of Old Sukkur, staged a protest outside the Sukkur Press Club against what she alleged was continued violence, mistreatment, harassment and injustice by her two sons and their wives. Speaking to the media during the protest, the…

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HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Police have arrested 12 suspects during separate operations against criminal elements, drug dealers and suppliers of harmful Mainpuri and Gutka across the district. The operations were carried out on the directives of DIG Hyderabad Range Tariq Razzaq Khan Dharejo and SSP Hyderabad Shahzaib Chachar. Police teams have intensified their actions against drug peddlers…

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Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, has said that Pakistan-US relations are currently in a significantly better position than in the past, but cautioned that there is no room for complacency and stressed the need to transform the improved atmosphere into a durable and results-oriented partnership. The Pakistani American Press Association (PAPA)…

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PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has announced simultaneous sit-ins outside key government offices in all four provinces on August 16 against the high petroleum levy, electricity costs and alleged corruption. Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Rehman accused the government of using the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL) to conceal corruption and said petrol…

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Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand reviewed the regional situation and discussed the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia-Turkiye defence agreement during a telephone conversation held on Sunday, according to the Foreign Office (FO). According to the FO, Dar briefed his Canadian counterpart on the objectives of the defence agreement and Pakistan’s shared commitment…

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