Sudan’s military launched air strikes on a paramilitary force’s base near the capital in a bid to reassert control over the country on Sunday following clashes in which scores of combatants and at least 56 civilians were killed. At the end of a day of heavy fighting, the army struck a base belonging to the government’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …

Gunmen seemingly posing as journalists shot dead a former Indian member of parliament and his brother live on TV as they were being taken in handcuffs to hospital by police, authorities said. Atiq Ahmed, 61, who had been jailed since 2019 and was convicted of kidnapping, was answering reporters’ questions on Saturday when he and his brother Ashraf were shot …

The Foreign Office (FO) said on Sunday that the latest revelations made by Satya Pal Malik — the “so-called” former governor of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) — regarding the Pulwama attack in 2019 had “once again vindicated Pakistan’s stance”. In February 2019, an attack took place on Indian paramilitary troops in IIOJK killing more than 40 soldiers. India accused Pakistan …

Sixteen people, including three Pakistanis, were killed and nine were injured in a Dubai residential building fire on Saturday, local media said on Sunday. The fire engulfed the five-storey building in the Al-Ras neighbourhood, one of the oldest parts of Dubai and home to many migrant workers and traders, on Saturday afternoon, according to Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National. Local media …

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has deci­ded not to use bullet- and bomb-proof vehicles and directed the services and general administration sec­r­­e­tary to get them parked. “The restriction of using bullet and bomb proof vehicles would be applicable on the chief minister, cabinet members, senior government and police officers,” Mr Bizenjo said in a statement on Saturday. …

KHUZDAR: Six policemen were killed in a head-on collision between a car and a truck on the Quetta-Karachi national highway in Wadh area on late Saturday night. The personnel were on their way to Hub from Quetta, Khuzdar SSP Fahad Khoso said. A truck coming from the opposite side hit the car, killing all six men on the spot, while …

LAHORE: A lawyers’ roundtable conference on Saturday questioned the oft-repeated argument of legislators about the supremacy of parliament, declaring that it is, in fact, the Constitution that is supreme. Prominent among those who spoke at the conference titled “Sanctity of the Constitution and Judicial Independence in Pakistan” were Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, Hamid Khan, Sardar Latif Khosa, Khwaja Tariq Rahim, Abid …

ISLAMABAD: At least 854 people were killed or wounded in militant attacks and counterterrorism operations in the first quarter of this year, a number that was half of what witnessed during the entire 2022, a report showed on Saturday. According to the report, prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, the number of deaths was 358 and that …

MUZAFFARABAD: The AJK Legislative Assembly could not hold the process to elect a new prime minister for a second consecutive day due to indecision of the ruling PTI and the combined opposition regarding their choice of candidates. When the house met at 5:50pm on Saturday, more than three and a half hours after the scheduled time, cabinet member Chaudhry Akbar …

ISLAMABAD: The number of voters between the ages of 18 and 35 years has increased by over nine million, turning them into a significant force which could swing the results of upcoming elections if convinced to come to the polling booth. According to voter statistics released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday, the number of young voters …