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September 5, 2018

Petition against PM’s election accepted in Lahore High Court

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday accepted a petition seeking the prime minister’s election to be declared unconstitutional on the basis that at least 69 […]
September 5, 2018

Saudi Arabia declares online satire punishable offence

Saudi Arabia will punish online satire that “disrupts public order” with up to five years in prison, the public prosecutor said Tuesday, as the kingdom cracks […]
September 5, 2018

India convicts two over 2007 blasts that killed 44

NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Tuesday convicted two members of a banned Islamist militant group over bomb blasts in August 2007 in Hyderabad city that […]
September 5, 2018

UN brings Libyan factions to the table, brokers truce

TRIPOLI: A ceasefire has been reached between armed factions fighting over the Libyan capital for more than a week, the United Nations said on Tuesday, but […]
September 5, 2018

Former IG Jamali obtains interim bail

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to a former inspector general of Sindh police in a corruption reference. The former provincial police […]
September 5, 2018

Seven KE officials sent to jail

KARACHI: A local court on Tuesday remanded seven detained officials of K-Electric in judicial custody in a case pertaining to the falling of live electric wires […]
September 5, 2018

Nawabshah varsity VC, lecturer booked in sexual harassment case

NAWABSHAH: The vice chancellor and a lecturer at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU), Nawabshah, were on Tuesday booked in a sexual harassment case several days […]
September 5, 2018

Education more necessary than housing, says CJP

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday ordered the federal and provincial governments to provide a response within one month to the apex […]