Indian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of the victim’s headless body at a Hindu temple left officers baffled. Shanti Shaw, 64, was killed and decapitated with a machete in 2019 after visiting the temple in Guwahati, a city in India’s remote northeast. Police made no headway in the …

Israeli police arrested more than 350 people early Wednesday after clashes at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, a police spokesperson said. In a statement, police said they had “arrested and removed over 350 individuals that violently barricaded” themselves inside the mosque in the Old City of annexed east Jerusalem. Those arrested included “masked individuals, stone and firework hurlers/throwers, and individuals suspected …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday took exception to British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “discriminatory and xenophobic” remarks on Pakistani men, saying that they painted a “misleading picture”. A day earlier, Braverman said that British-Pakistani men “hold cultural values at odds with British values”. During a Sky News interview about plans to tackle child sexual abuse, she spoke about “the predominance of British-Pakistani males …

ISLAMABAD: After serving for almost a year as special assistant to the prime minister (SAPM), Fahd Husain on Tuesday stepped down from the position for personal reasons. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif accepted his resignation and hailed his service as SAPM. “I have stepped down as Special Assistant to PM after productive stint of a year. Grateful to PM Shehbaz for …

KOHAT/LOWER DIR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have begun an investigation into the martyrdom of two Kohat policemen in Monday night militant attack. Also, an official of the traffic police was martyred in a gun attack in Lower Dir district, while a militant was killed and two injured in a police crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan district. SHO of …

ISLAMABAD: In a una­n­imous judgement, a three-member bench of the Sup­reme Court led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday fixed May 14 as the new date for elections to the Punjab Assembly, as the apex court quashed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to extend the polls date from April 10 to Oct 8. However, for the elections in …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council on Tuesday announced it had filed a complaint/reference before the Supreme Judicial Council against a Supreme Court judge, calling for initiating misconduct proceedings against him. According to a press release issued here, the reference was filed against Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi by the bar’s vice-chairman Zarbadshah Khan and its executive committee’s chairman …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate was assured on Tuesday that steps were underway to get objectionable material removed from the O level syllabus. Minister for Education Rana Tanveer Hussain informed the house that a notice was being issued to Cambridge to remove the content, otherwise these books would not be allowed in Pakistan. He was responding to a calling attention notice moved …

KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has finally decided to relocate two elephants — Noor Jehan and Madhubala — from Karachi Zoological Gardens to sprawling Safari Park within one month. On Tuesday, the KMC extended full support to the international animal welfare group, Four Paws, currently engaged in efforts to save Noor Jehan’s life at the zoo. “We are with …

ISLAMABAD: In an act of open defiance, the National Assembly and the federal cabinet — dominated by members of the ruling coalition — refused to abide by the Supreme Court ruling that fixed May 14 as the election date in Punjab, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calling the verdict a “murder of justice”. Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, …