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Militants attacked the Burgi police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat early Sunday morning, leaving four policemen dead and injuring as many, according to a police official. “At midnight, militants attacked the police station and tried to enter the building,” Lakki Police spokesperson Shahid Hameed told Dawn.com, adding that more than 60 policemen were on duty at that time. He said …

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden threw his support behind a larger African role in the world as he also vowed to champion democracy in a continent where China and Russia have enjoyed rising clout. “The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa,” Biden told nearly 50 African leaders who spent three days in a wintry …

MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will meet the party’s chairman, Imran Khan, on Saturday in what will be the parliamentary party’s first formal meeting with the former prime minister after last year’s elections. PTI sources told Dawn that the meeting would be held at Mr Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore at 3pm, adding …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has linked the conduct of fresh deli­­mi­tation with official notification of the final results of the yet-to-com­mence exercise of the first-ever digital census results by March 31, 2023. Informed sources told Dawn that the decision, taken after the calculation of minimum time required with squeezed timelines through an in-house discussion, has been conveyed to the …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to an accused facing blasphemy charges for joining a “WhatsApp” group, which alleged­ly posted sacrilegious content, and obser­ved that the state, and not individuals, should have the authority to deal with the matters concerning religion. “The state should not surrender itself to individuals on religious matters rather the state machinery should be …

LAHORE / RAWALPINDI: A day before PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s promised announcement regarding the dissolution of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, the war of nerves reached fever pitch as their coalition partner, the PML-Q, seemed to be looking for a larger slice of the general election pie. After their attempts to convince party chief Imran Khan to delay the dissolution …

The Sindh High Court has dismissed a petition seeking to make the teaching of the Holy Quran mandatory in all schools and colleges, ruling that it was not the function of the court to dictate the content of the curriculum. The petition called for the amendment of the curriculum of primary, secondary and higher secondary/college education so as to make …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday rejected the statement issued by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it a “reflection of India’s growing frustration”. On Thursday, FM Bilawal had described Modi as the “butcher of Gujarat” while responding to his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the United Nations after …

As PTI gears up to unveil plans for the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called for political stability in the country and slammed his opponents for “spreading anarchy”. “It is required for the sake of loyalty to Pakistan and allegiance that there must be economic stability,” a statement issued by the Prime …

ISLAMABAD: Another purported audio clip of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi has emerged. Bushra Bibi, the former first lady, can be heard grumbling at Bani Gala’s former administrator Inam Khan for making pictures of Toshakhana gifts, calling him out for not taking permission from her. Earlier this month, another audio clip of Bushra …