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Jan 20, 2025 | 
arab.news | Aqdas Afzal
Hope, caution and Pakistan’s unstable economic stability Short Urlhttps://arab.news/wswys Like a battered ship that stops heaving after emerging from a perfect storm, Pakistan’s economy has finally stabilized after two years. The numbers speak for themselves.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Aqdas Afzal
Posts from users on social media platforms on Thursday shared an image claiming that incoming US official Richard Grenell called for the resignation of Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir. However, the image was edited; the original post did not mention the army chief but instead referred to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Aqdas Afzal
The Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin was open to talks with Donald Trump after the incoming US president said a meeting between the pair was being set up. Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, has said he can bring a swift end to the nearly three-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine, without presenting a concrete plan.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Abdullah Zehri |Aqdas Afzal
The body of a miner was recovered on Friday during a rescue operation near a coal mine in Quetta after a dozen mineworkers were left trapped therein following an explosion a day ago, rescuers said.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer |Aqdas Afzal
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Friday approved the bail of 153 PTI workers who were arrested on November 26 when law enforcement agencies carried out a crackdown on protesters at Islamabad’s D-Chowk. On Nov 13, Imran issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate, the release of detained party members, and the reversal of the 26th Amendment which he said had strengthened a “dictatorial regime”.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Aqdas Afzal
Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighbourhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California’s National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. News of the growing toll, announced late on Thursday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the United States’ second-largest city lay in ruins.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Aqdas Afzal
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) finally resumed flights to Europe on Friday, over a month after a four-and-a-half-year ban was lifted by EU regulators. A flight of the state-owned airline, plagued by a history of deadly crashes and a pilot licence scandal, took off from Islamabad at around 12:40pm heading for Paris, AFP journalists saw, becoming the only carrier to offer a direct route to and from the European Union.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Umer Mehtab |Aqdas Afzal
Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan on Friday remarked that trials in a military court were “similar” to those in a civilian court, as a Supreme Court constitutional bench heard a case on military trials of civilians over last year’s May 9 riots. The case pertains to the military trials — and recent sentencing — of civilians for their role in attacks on army installations during the riots that followed ex-premier Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9, 2023.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Imtiaz Ali |Aqdas Afzal
Two people were killed while one was injured on Friday after a water tanker ran over them on Karachi’s Shaheed-i-Millat Road, officials said. In an update issued by the Chhipa Information Bureau at 10:16am, two people riding a motorbike died, while one was seriously injured, when the tanker ran over them near the Shaheed-i-Millat Bridge. “The deceased, along with the injured, were moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre,” according to Chhipa.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Aqdas Afzal
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls’ education hosted in Islamabad to advance girls’ education and promote awareness of women’s empowerment. Malala, an advocate for girls’ education, and her friends Kainat and Shazia were attacked by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Oct 9, 2012, while they were returning from school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat valley.
