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KARACHI, PakistanPakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday visited the churches vandalized and burned by angry mobs following alleged desecration of Muslim holy book of Quran in northeastern Punjab province, vowing the perpetrators will be brought to justice.Along with the governor and interim chief minister of the province, ...

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was sworn in on the country’s Independence Day on Monday afternoon in a ceremony carried live on TV and will lead a country wracked by political and economic instability through to the next elections. Source link

In response to recent Quran burnings and threats to burn a Torah during demonstrations in Sweden, Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer has pledged to examine legal and legislative possibilities to ban the desecration of holy books in the country.The move comes after Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European ...

Israel formally acknowledged on Sunday evening that an Iranian-planned terror attack targeting Israeli and Jewish targets in Cyprus was foiled recently, and warned that its operatives would continue thwarting “Iranian terrorism wherever it raises its head,” including in Iran. Cypriot media reported the suspected terror plot earlier Sunday, believed ...

Military also denies allegations of human rights abuses after PTI said some of its members were tortured in custody.The Pakistani military has vowed to punish the “planners and masterminds” of the violence that erupted last month after former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s brief arrest in a corruption case led ...

islamabad —  Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged Monday that supporters of his predecessor, Imran Khan, who allegedly stormed defense installations during recent nationwide anti-government protests, will be prosecuted in military courts. Sharif told the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, that rioters involved in vandalizing civilian facilities ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army said “restraint will no longer be exercised” on groups attacking military installations, vowing to take legal action against those who damaged property after former premier Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest last week. “The Armed Forces are well aware of the planners, instigators, abettors and perpetrators of these ...

ISLAMABADThe UN has vowed to continue raising its voice on women's rights in Afghanistan, though it could not disengage with the country over a recent decision barring women from working with the international organization."Let me be crystal clear: we will never be silent in the face of unprecedented, systemic ...

Rallying call: Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders Uddhav Thackeray, Ajit Pawar, Balasaheb Thorat, Nana Patole and others at a rally in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex on May 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The third joint rally by Maharashtra’s Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) troika in Mumbai on May ...

Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday expressed firm resolve to make Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) more powerful, efficient and effective in the Union Territory.Sinha was addressing a function organised to celebrate National Panchayati Raj Day at Palli, a nondescript hamlet in border district of Samba which on April ...