NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Friday sought the government and Twitter’s response to a petition seeking greater regulation of content on social media platforms amid a debate over free speech. The case comes amid a growing standoff between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government and Twitter, after the company refused to fully comply with orders to remove certain …

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf on Friday called for building the Pak-US bilateral relationship around economic security. He was speaking at the launch of a report titled ‘Pak-Americana: Ushe­ring in a New Era of Pakistan-US Rela­tions’ published by Tabadlab, a think tank and advisory services firm. This paradigm shift in ties, he …

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is the target of unconstitutional “vengeance” and senators should reject his impeachment for inciting insurrection, the former president’s lawyer told the US Senate at the opening of the defense case on Friday. “The article of impeachment now before the Senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political vengeance,” attorney Michael van der Veen said. “Like …

• Cansino Bio only company to have conducted clinical trials in Pakistan • Around 20m doses to be available in next six months • Another Chinese firm to conduct clinical trial ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) on Friday issued emergency use authorisation to the Chinese company Cansino Biologics Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine after which supply of the doses …

MUZAFFARABAD: Kashmiri leader Sardar Sikandar Hayat on Friday rejoined Muslim Conference (MC) party after ending his association with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz after more than a decade. Mr Hayat announced the decision in the presence of an MC delegation led by former Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan. He was accompanied by his younger …

ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday rejected the post-arrest bail applications of four lawyers arrested for storming into the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Feb 8. ATC Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan dismissed the bail applications of advocates Naveed Hayat Malik, Chaudhry Zafar Ali Warraich, Nazia Bibi and Sheikh Mohammad Shoaib. The detained lawyers in their petition maintained that …

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday said that Pakistan had made substantive progress on the remaining items of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Action Plan. “FATF had assessed Pakistan to have completed 21 of the 27 Action Items under the current Action Plan. In the remaining six partially addressed items, significant progress has been made by Pakistan, which is …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday said the written order by the chief justice of Pakistan in which he said Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa should not hear cases involving Prime Minister Imran Khan “is not good for the credibility and respect of the judiciary”. “The whole system of justice and the respect of the judiciary is being risked to …

LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that governments in parliamentary democracy do not think beyond their tenure of five years for their vested interests though the future of countries depends on long-term planning. He called upon the nation to join the 10 billion trees planting campaign to help reverse the smog, a silent killer, and environmental pollution. PM Khan …

t ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday dismissed the petition filed against the recent appointment of retired Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed as head of the one-man commission constituted to probe the controversy related to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the UK-based asset recovery firm, Broadsheet LLC. When IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah took up the matter, the petitioner, Saleemullah …