Tue, 21-Oct-2025

President Alvi dismisses secretary after bills controversy

President Alvi

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has dismissed his secretary after a controversy erupted over the signing of two bills. The President’s Secretariat has written a letter to the principal secretary to the prime minister that the services of serving secretary to the president are no more required. “The services of Mr Waqar Ahmed, Secretary to … Read more

Pervaiz Elahi’s ex-principal secretary detained by Sindh Police

Punjab Assembly Secretary

Punjab Assembly Secretary has been taken into custody by Sindh Police He was detained while heading to secure bail from SHC Bhatti is considered a close confidante of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi KARACHI: Punjab Assembly Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti has been taken into custody by Sindh Police, Bol News reported. Muhammad Khan Bhatti was detained from … Read more

Griner concedes Russian medications charge yet denies aim

Griner

U.S. b-ball star Brittney Griner conceded. To a medications charge in a Russian court on Thursday. Denied she had purposefully overstepped the law. Griner was talking at the second knowing about her preliminary on an opiates charge that conveys a sentence of as long as 10 years in jail. Days after she encouraged U.S. President … Read more

Hamilton: Don’t stage F1’s negative old voices

Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton called for Formula One’s privileged few to be given no broadcast appointment. Following 91-year-old previous supremo Bernie Ecclestone and resigned triple title holder Nelson Piquet. Ecclestone safeguarded Russian President Vladimir Putin in a TV interview on Thursday as somebody he would “take a shot” for. Hamilton, Formula One’s just Black driver who has … Read more

El Salvador says over 15,000 suspected gang members arrested

El Salvador

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Friday that police and soldiers have arrested extra than 15,000 suspected gang members in underneath a month in a crackdown searching for to halt surging homicides. Bukele introduced a nation of emergency on the end of March following a bloody weekend in which 87 people had been killed in … Read more

Higher food prices could push 10 mn into poverty: Yellen

Russia

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Rising food charges which have been driven even higher through Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could pressure upwards of 10 million humans into poverty,  on Tuesday. Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor and retaliatory sanctions imposed by the West starting in past due February have brought on a spike in crude … Read more

Blinken visits Algeria in shadow of Ukraine war

ukraine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Algeria on Wednesday, a Moscow ally and big gas producer under pressure to increase shipments to Europe after prices surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On his first visit to the North African country as the top US diplomat, Blinken landed at Boumediene Airport and proceeded to … Read more

ECP not bound to hold elections using EVMs: secretary

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary, Omar Hamid Khan on Thursday said even though the bill regarding electronic voting machines (EVMs) has passed, the ECP is not bound to hold elections according to it. “It took India 20 years and Brazil 22 years to get themselves on the machines. It will also take us … Read more