KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday remanded the purported husband of 13-year-old Arzoo in police custody till Nov 6. Police arrested Syed Ali Azhar on Monday night, recovered his purported wife, Arzoo, and sent her to a shelter home following an order of the Sindh High Court in a case pertaining to alleged abduction of the Christian girl, her purported …

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic, accompanied by a high-level delegation including the minister for security and presidential advisers, will arrive here on Wednesday on a two-day official visit to Pakistan. Mr Dzaferovic is paying the visit on the invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan, a Foreign Office spokesperson said in a press statement issued …

KARACHI: The prosecution on Tuesday pointed out discrepancies in the preliminary charge sheet submitted by police in the case pertaining to alleged breach of sanctity of the Quaid’s mazar registered against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader retired Captain Safdar Awan. Deputy district public prosecutor (DDPP) East Arif Sitai in his scrutiny note observed that the investigation officer (IO) of the case, SI …

ISLAMABAD: Over half of the polling stations being established for Nov 15 elections in Gilgit-Baltistan have been categorised as sensitive, a Senate panel was informed on Tuesday. The GB chief secretary told the Senate Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan that out of the total 1,141 polling stations, 577 had been identified as sensitive, with 297 of them highly …

Pakistan and Bosnia on Wednesday signed two accords of cooperation, including memorandums of understanding on the return home of illegal Pakistani migrants and scientific cooperation, while the leaders of both countries also agreed to improve trade relations. The accords were signed at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad, where Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic arrived …

Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Tuesday said Pakistan looks forward to working with whoever wins the United States election — Republican President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While speaking to Arab News, the FO spokesperson conveyed the country’s best wishes to Americans who voted in the record-setting election on Tuesday. He added that the election was an “internal matter” …

Republican Tony Gonzales, a Navy veteran, was leading Air Force veteran Gina Ortiz Jones early Wednesday in the race for the massive border district that Jones nearly won in 2018. The Democrat was running again after her narrow loss to Rep. Will Hurd, a San Antonio Republican who decided not to seek reelection. The 23rd has long been Texas’ only …

Arlington Rep. Ron Wright, a freshman Republican, defended his seat in Congress against Democrat Stephen Daniel, an attorney with ties to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. Health care was a prominent issue in the race, particularly as Wright fought lung cancer during the campaign. Daniel slammed his opponent over the GOP’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, while Wright …

WASHINGTON – Texas Democrats running for Congress put Republicans on the defensive in the state’s fast-changing suburbs, but it appeared unlikely late Tuesday that they would pick up even a few — or even any — U.S. House seats in territory that the GOP has long dominated. Upwards of a dozen districts were home to real competition on Election Day, …

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls, a Republican, defeated Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni, a former diplomat, in the Houston-area U.S. House seat left open by retiring Rep. Pete Olson, according to the Associated Press. It was Kulkarni’s second attempt at winning the district after narrowly losing to Olson, R-Sugar Land, in 2018. His race against Nehls was defined in part …