A Syrian man was arrested after a shooting on Wednesday near the US embassy in Beirut, the Lebanese army said, with the diplomatic mission saying its personnel were safe. The embassy, in the northern suburb of Awkar, “was subjected to gunfire by a person holding Syrian nationality”, the army said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.     “Army personnel deployed …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be sworn-in for a record-equalling third term on June 8, after key allies pledged their continued support a day after a humbling election verdict that saw his party lose its majority in parliament. Modi, a populist who has dominated Indian politics since coming to power in 2014, will for the first time need the …

ISLAMABAD: Capital police have launched an investigation against a British embassy official who hit a constable while violating traffic rules, sources said on Tuesday. A police officer told Dawn that the office of the deputy inspector general of police (Operation) had sent a letter to the interior ministry requesting to approach the Foreign Office to collect details of the diplomat. In a …

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Tuesday demanded that the government issue licences to all those residents of Karachi who were willing to carry arms as both the administration and state had “failed” to ensure safety of the people. The party also suspected that the recent surge in killing of citizens during robberies was not just a type of …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday accepted for regular hearing applications filed by all three winners of National Assembly seats from Islamabad seeking the transfer of election petitions to some other tribunal. A three-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja while issuing notices to the respondents fixed June 6 as the date of hearing. “Point raised …

LAHORE: Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday referred to a full court bench a petition of the Pak­istan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) challenging the powers of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to withdraw the party symbol. When the matter came for hearing before the LHC, Justice Sheikh asked the PTI counsel how details about the intra-party elections. “Who selects in …

MUZAFFARABAD: Agreeing with the contentions of the prosecution, an anti-terrorism court in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of detained poet Ahmed Farhad Shah, holding that the legal points advanced by his counsel did not apply to the case in hand. Mr Shah, who had gone missing from his Islamabad residence on May 15, had surprisingly “re-surfaced” …

MUZAFFARABAD: Agreeing with the contentions of the prosecution, an anti-terrorism court in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of detained poet Ahmed Farhad Shah, holding that the legal points advanced by his counsel did not apply to the case in hand. Mr Shah, who had gone missing from his Islamabad residence on May 15, had surprisingly “re-surfaced” …

ISLAMABAD: Pol­io­virus has been found in samples taken from two more districts of the country — Dera Ismail Khan and Bahawalpur — taking the number of infected districts to 42. Both areas had been free from the virus over the past few years. Moreover, 15 environm­e­­ntal samples have been fo­­­und positive, taking the tal­ly of positive samples this year to …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered de-sealing of the central secretariat of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the G-8 sector of the capital. IHC Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz allowed a petition filed by PTI General Secretary Omar Ayub through his counsel Mohammad Shuaib Shaheen. The PTI had challenged the Capital Development Authority (CDA)’s operation conducted on its secretariat in G-8/4 on May …