ISLAMABAD: A senior judge on Monday ordered five government ministries and two regulatory bodies to explain, within two weeks, what they intend to do about children’s access to social media — the latest sign that Pakistan’s courts, not its parliament, have become the venue of choice for those pushing to rein in how minors use the internet.
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Pakistan axes seven seniors in mass Test overhaul after England humiliation
LAHORE: Pakistan cricket has undergone a dramatic shake-up after the Pakistan Cricket Board released seven Test squad members, including senior figures Mohammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq and Salman Ali Agha, following a chastening series defeat to England.
Volunteer climbers recover mountaineer Asma Mushtaq’s body 10 days after fatal descent from Spantik Peak
GILGIT: A team of volunteer climbers recovered the body of Pakistani mountaineer Asma Mushtaq on Monday, nearly 10 days after she died descending Spantik Peak in Gilgit-Baltistan, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said.
PPP leaders draw a line against calls to divide Sindh province
KARACHI: Sindh’s chief minister told the provincial assembly Monday that his province would never be split apart, dismissing calls for new administrative units as the work of outsiders rather than the people who would actually be affected.
Supreme Court won’t fast-track Imran Khan contempt petition; Islamabad court says private care isn’t a prisoner’s right
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday rebuffed a second attempt by the sister of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan to accelerate contempt proceedings against government officials accused of defying a court order to move him to a private hospital, even as a separate court in the capital rejected pleas from three other inmates seeking the same treatment.
Second autopsy contradicts suicide finding in Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: A second post-mortem examination has found that the gunshot wound that killed a 25-year-old businessman in Karachi last month is inconsistent with suicide, contradicting the theory police pursued for weeks after his body was discovered — and reigniting a legal battle over who should investigate his death.
The internet married Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. He would like a divorce
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spent the weekend watching the internet marry him off. By Monday, the chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party had heard enough. In a video statement posted to social media, he said that he is not engaged, is not getting married, and has never met the Austrian noblewoman the rumors had already fitted him for a wedding suit alongside.
Hague court rejects India’s suspension of Indus water treaty, orders halt on Kashmir dam project
ISLAMABAD: An international arbitration court ruled on Monday that India cannot unilaterally suspend a six-decade-old treaty governing the sharing of water from the Indus River system, delivering a sharp rebuke to New Delhi and ordering it to curtail construction on a hydroelectric project in the disputed Kashmir region.
PM Sharif meets Iranian Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan as Tehran-Washington conflict reignites
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met on Monday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bishkek, pressing the case for diplomatic restraint just hours after the United States and Iran exchanged their first direct strikes in more than a month, reigniting a war that has simmered since February.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey formalise defence pact as ‘Makkah Defence Alliance’
ISLAMABAD: Three nations bound by a first-of-its-kind mutual defense pledge took their first concrete steps on Monday toward building the institutions of what officials are now calling the “Makkah Defence Alliance,” with Pakistan set to supply the bloc’s inaugural secretary general and Saudi Arabia hosting its headquarters.