Beyond Today, Into Tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned the Punjab Chief Secretary and the Local Government Secretary to appear in person before the commission on Jan 22 to explain delay in activities required to hold long-delayed local elections in the province, an informed source told Dawn on Friday. “This step is being taken to ensure urgent…
PTI senators slam ban on meetings with Imran Law minister says jail superintendent responsible for meetings, denies solitary confinement claim ISLAMABAD: Senators on Friday called for keeping tabs on the use of social media platforms by children under 18, with the chair proposing a special committee to develop safeguards in consultation with relevant ministries. The…
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Friday took up the issue of increasing cybercrimes in the country, which are badly affecting the masses. Members highlighted the problem of fake driving challans, as well as fraudulent messages from educational institutions, banks, mobile phone companies and other entities. It was also informed that in some cases people responded…
Washington: An American journal has strongly supported Pakistan’s position regarding India’s actions against the Indus Waters Treaty, warning that these steps could pose a serious humanitarian threat in South Asia. According to Betond the Time News, the US publication, The National Interest, in its report said India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has introduced…
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday it considered calls by some European states to resume dialogue with Russia as “positive”, after French and Italian leaders called for re-engagement with Moscow on Ukraine. Dialogue between the EU and Russia has been virtually frozen since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive on Ukraine in 2022. The bloc has imposed huge…
Hate speech against minorities, including Muslims and Christians, in India rose by 13 per cent in 2025, with most incidents occurring in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Washington-based research group said on Tuesday. India Hate Lab documented 1,318 instances of what it called hate speech in…
GENEVA: Sri Lankan forces used sexual violence against minority Tamils during the island’s decades-long separatist war, and victims still await justice 17 years after the fighting ended, a UN report said on Tuesday. Troops crushed the separatists following a no-holds-barred offensive and declared an end to the war by May 2009. The spectacular military success…
SEOUL: A South Korean judge sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration and in its chaotic aftermath. It is the first in a series of verdicts for the disgraced ex-leader, whose brief suspension of civilian rule in South…
WASHINGTON: US Central Intelligence Agency head John Ratcliffe travelled to Venezuela on Thursday and met leader Delcy Rodriguez, a US administration official said, in the highest-level American visit since the fall of Nicolas Maduro. President Donald Trump sent the spy chief to Caracas for a meeting that lasted approximately two hours, US sources said, less…
ALEPPO: A US-led coalition intervened on Friday to reduce tensions between Syria’s government and Kurdish forces, with Damascus determined to expel them from an area in the country’s north. After driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo last week, the Syrian army deployed reinforcements near the Kurdish-controlled Deir Hafer, some 50 kilometres east of the city, ordering…
