ANKARA: Turkiye launched its first aircraft carrier on Monday, aiming to extend its drone capabilities from land-based to naval operations amid increased regional tensions as war rages in Ukraine on the other side of the Black Sea. The TCG Anadolu can handle only light aircraft, chiefly helicopters and jets that can take off from shorter runways. It is 232 metres …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court office on Monday returned a PTI-instituted petition seeking ele­ctions to the Khyber Pakhtun­khwa Assembly within the stipulated period of 90 days by citing reasons that respondents in the case were not informed “properly” about reasons for filing of the petition. On April 6, PTI secretary general Asad Umar, along with the assembly’s ex-Speaker, had moved the …

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden did everything on Monday to look and sound like someone running for re-election — but again insisted he has no official announcement to make. The 80-year-old Democrat has delayed an expected campaign launch for months, while teasing repeatedly that his intention is to run. Hosting hundreds of members of the public at a festive Easter event …

Pakistan on Tuesday voiced its “strong indignation” of India’s plans to convene meetings linked with G20 in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying such a move was “self-serving” on New Delhi’s part. The third meeting of G20 Tourism Working Group under India’s G20 Presidency will be held from May 22 to 24 in Srinagar, according to the Times of India. India assumed the year-long …

An intelligence-based operation in Quetta turned deadly in the early hours of Tuesday, with at least four police officers losing their lives in a gunbattle with terrorists, according to the police. Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) in Quetta Capt (retd) Zuhaib Moshin told that the operation was launched to neutralise terrorists who had been involved in past attacks on security …

ISLAMABAD: All three pillars of the state — the executive, legislature, and judiciary — on Monday vowed to safeguard the Constitution, at an event held to celebrate 50 years of the Constitution at Parliament House, which was also addressed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa. At the Golden Jubilee Convention of the 1973 Constitution, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and three other …

ISLAMABAD: In the absence of senators belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the Senate on Monday passed a resolution endorsing general elections of all provincial assemblies and the National Assembly simultaneously. The house passed the resolution, which was not on the order of the day, soon after the PTI staged a token walkout from the house over the rejection of …

In line with the deadline issued by the Supreme Court (SC), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday submitted a report to the top court on whether the government had provided it with the funding to conduct elections in Punjab. The report was submitted with the SC’s Registrar’s Office in a sealed envelope. The April 11 date for the …

ISLAMABAD: Sardar Salman Ahmad Dogar, a lawyer, moved a reference on Monday before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against the chief justice of Pakistan and three other judges of the Supreme Court. The complaint alleged judicial misconduct on the part of Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Munib Akhtar, and Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Naqvi. The complainant …

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan shared good relations with the interim government in Afghanistan, but at the same time expressed concern that the “TTP [Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan] is using Afghan soil even today for attacks in our country, especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. He passed these remarks in an interview with Voice of America a day earlier.   Pakistan has witnessed a …