Новости за 03.01.2025

• 10 people injured in New York City shooting
• FBI says suspect in New Orleans attack ‘acted alone’

A National guardsman secures the area where people were killed in a truck attack in New Orleans.—Reuters

WASHINGTON: Shock and fear have engulfed America’s Muslim community as they grapple with the aftermath of Wednesday’s terror attack in New Orleans, which claimed 15 lives and left dozens injured.

ISLAMABAD: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, the senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, on Thursday expressed the hope that the federal government would swiftly enact arbitral legislation in the larger economic interest of the nation, and to ensure an effective and contemporary dispute resolution mechanism for the people.

LAHORE: Punjab has become the first province in the country to automate its development system, taking a significant step towards modernising governance. In a parallel development, the provincial administration has launched a solarisation programme to transition agricultural tube wells to solar energy.

KURRAM: Protesters continued their sit-in in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram district, on Thursday as they announced that they would end their protest only when the roads are opened for traffic and they are made safe for public travel. The two sides signed the peace agreement in Kohat on Wednesday.

KHAN YUNIS: Palestinians check a crater caused by an Israeli strike that hit an administrative building in the southern Gaza Strip.—AFP

CAIRO: Israeli airstrikes killed at least 54 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said. They said the 11 included women and children in the Al-Mawasi district, which was designated as a humanitarian zone for civilians earlier in the war, now in its 15th month.

ISLAMABAD: For the second consecutive day on Thursday, government officials faced intense grilling by parliamentarians over slow internet and frequent outages.

• Decision follows mercy petitions submitted by 67 of 85 convicted individuals
• Petitions of remaining men to be decided after ‘due legal process’, says ISPR
• Seven released from Peshawar prison

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has asked the governments of four provinces, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan to implement building codes for energy conservation.

ISLAMABAD: VEON Group, the parent company of Mobilink Bank, has invested $15 million in fresh capital to drive the bank’s strategic ambitions, through its parent.

LAHORE: A man convicted in the 2015 Kasur video scandal has filed an appeal before the Lahore High Court challenging his 10-year sentence in the three cases registered against him.

LONDON: A top-secret lab in the UK is developing the country’s first quantum clock to help the British military boost intelligence and reconnaissance operations, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD: A fault in one of the subsea internet cables connecting Pakistan slowed down the network speed in the country on Thursday, the telecom regulator said in a statement.

QUETTA: Three people, including two government employees, were arrested on Thursday for illegally hunting the rare Suleiman Markhor in the mountainous Takato Range.

QUETTA: Sibi Division Comm­issioner Syed Zahid Shah survived an armed attack while traveling through Kachhi district on Thursday night.

QUETTA: A female human rights activist was shot dead by her brother in the Jail Road area of Zhob town, police officials said on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD: The Isla­mabad High Court (IHC) decided 5.4 per cent fewer cases in 2024 as compared to the previous year, according to official data,

• MPAs seek resumption of 4G in Panjgur, division of Washuk constituency into two
• Cabinet okays guidelines for carbon trading
• Green-lights $100m World Bank project

ISLAMABAD: Election tribunals have picked momentum in deciding poll disputes, but still could only decide 27 per cent of petitions. With the legal deadline to decide poll petitions within 180 days having lapsed long ago, election tribunals decided 51 petitions between Nov 16, 2024 and Dec 31, 2024, bringing the total of decided petitions to 101 or 27 per cent of the total cases, according to systematic tracking of election disputes by Fafen, the Free and Fair Election Network.

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KARACHI: A legislator elected to the National As­­sembly on a seat reserved for minorities resigned on Thursday, after months of controversy that saw his own party accuse him of being involved in “illegal and anti-state activities.”

KARACHI: Pakistan must expand their pool of players to enable themselves to match the fitness requirements of modern day cricket, the team’s interim head coach and selection committee member Aaqib Javed has said.

BRISBANE: Novak Djok­ovic and Aryna Sabalenka were in ominous form ahead of the Australian Open as both powered into the Brisbane Intern­ational quarter-finals on Thursday.