Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the police action at Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s Lahore residence last week. Last week, police and Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) teams conducted a late-night raid at PTI President Parvez Elahi’s Gulberg residence and arrested 12 people. The raiding party used an armoured vehicle to break down …

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin. A senior Ukrainian presidential official said Kyiv had nothing to do with the purported incident, the most dramatic accusation Russia has levelled against Ukraine since invading its neighbour more than 14 months ago. The Kremlin said two drones had …

Candidates running for Dallas City Council and mayor have raised nearly $1.2 million in donations since January, with boosts in the last month of the May 6 election from political action committees, and cash from billionaire Harlan Crow, records show. Crow’s yearslong bankrolling of luxury trips and gifts for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has recently raised ethics and disclosure concerns nationwide. The real estate …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) filed on Wednesday a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the latter’s order on holding polls in Punjab on May 14, saying that the verdict was “per incuriam (lacking regard to the law or the facts) to the Constitution, law and previous judgments”. In a una­n­imous judgment on April 4, a three-member bench …

The Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR’s) customs department seized urea fertiliser and sugar worth Rs392 million from Balochistan’s Khuzdar during three raids as part of a major anti-smuggling operation, it emerged on Wednesday. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the FBR said during the ongoing operations against the smuggling of essential commodities, Customs Intelligence seized 41,883 bags of urea having …

KARACHI: Despite calm in international gold markets and exchange rate stability, the yellow metal traders on Tuesday pushed up the prices to historic highs of Rs221,000 per tola and Rs189,472 per 10-gram. The prices were raised by Rs1,500 per tola and Rs1,286 per 10 grams from overnight levels. According to All Sindh Saraf Jewellers Group (ASSJG), the world gold rate …

London police seemingly foiled a plan of an alleged attack as they detained a man armed with a knife and accused of throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Asper reports, neither King Charles or his wife Queen Consort Camilla, who are set to be officially crowned on May 6, were at the palace at the time. …

Opener Imamul Haq and Babar Azam hit solid half-centuries on Wednesday as Pakistan scored 287-6 against New Zealand in the third One-Day International (ODI) in Karachi. Haq scored a 107-ball 90 for his 16th half-century while Azam made a 62-ball 54 for his 26th half-century, after New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl on a slow-paced National Stadium …

Israel voiced hope on Wednesday that Saudi authorities would admit direct flights for its Muslim citizens who want to make the Haj pilgrimage, which begins next month, in what would mark another step toward normalising relations. Saudi Arabia signalled approval for Israel’s US-sponsored forging of ties with Gulf neighbours United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020 but has held off on following suit, saying …

Government-led reforms and the growth of private investment in new sectors will help support non-oil economic growth in Saudi Arabia amid an expected sharp slowdown in overall growth this year, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said. The Saudi economy grew 8.7 per cent last year, as high oil prices boosted revenue and led to the kingdom’s first budget …