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Barrister Aqeel Malik, adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on law, has hinted that the government could seek the extradition of PTI protesters abroad who hold an “anti-state agenda”. After more than a year of heightened tensions between the government and the PTI, the two sides commenced negotiations in December last year to bring down political temperatures. But despite weeks of negotiations , the dialogue process stalled on two major issues — the formation of two judicial commissions and the release of PTI prisoners. Citing the delay in forming the probe bodies, the PTI decided to boycott the fourth round of talks scheduled at the end of January. After the negotiations remained in limbo, both sides have continued trading barbs against each other. Responding to a question about PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, who is abroad currently, Malik said in an interview on DawnNewsTV programme ‘Doosra Rukh’ on Friday: “Interpol has been contacted by the interior ministry regarding these ca...

Indian authorities are looking into “deeply troubling” information about US governmental activity in the country, New Delhi said on Friday, after American President Donald Trump suggested that a US government agency had spent money trying to influence Indian elections. The Indian foreign ministry comment comes two days after Trump cited information released by DOGE, the department led by Elon Musk, showing that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had spent $21 million on “voter turnout” in India. “We have seen information put out by the US administration regarding certain USAID activities and funding. These are obviously very deeply troubling. This has led to concerns about foreign interference in India’s internal affairs,” foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a weekly news briefing when asked about USAID’s activities in India. Jaiswal said the “relevant department and agencies” were looking into the matter. USAID did not immediately respond...

Six terrorists were killed after security forces carried out an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Friday. According to a press release issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces effectively engaged after they received information regarding the presence of terrorists in the area. “During the conduct of operation […] six khawarij were sent to hell,” it said, referring to the term the state uses for members of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). “A sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area,” it said, adding that the security forces were determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism. Pakistan has recently witnessed an uptick in terror activities, especially in KP and Balochistan. Terror attacks have increased since the TTP broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022. Last week, security forces killed 1...

The Balochistan police have formed an inquiry committee to probe police negligence in Mustafa Amir’s murder case, an official said on Friday. Amir, a 23-year-old, was kidnapped and allegedly murdered by his friends in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on January 6. According to the police, the youth’s friends stuffed his body in the trunk of his car and torched it in the Hub area of Balochistan. Earlier this month, police arrested Armaghan for injuring policemen in an attempt to resist his detention in connection with Amir’s kidnapping case. Another suspect, Armaghan’s friend Sheraz aka Shavez Bukhari, was remanded in police custody by an antiterrorism court (ATC) last week. Sindh Acting Prosecutor-General Muntazir Mehdi, on behalf of the Sindh government, had filed revision applications in the SHC, challenging the ATC orders denying the police Armaghan’s physical custody and sending him on judicial remand instead. Another application was also filed against an ATC order o...

French police will start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to fight an increase in violent attacks, the education minister said Friday. The spot searches will begin in the spring, Elisabeth Borne told the BFMTV/RMC broadcaster. “I want us to be able to organise, together with the prefect, the prosecutor and the representative of the education system, regular bag searches at the entrance of schools,” she said. These would be carried out by police, she said, as teachers and school staff are not authorised to search pupils. The new policy was prompted by stabbings becoming “much more common”, Borne said. The minister said she would also seek a rule change by which any pupil found with a bladed weapon at school would automatically have to appear before a disciplinary council. Any such case would also trigger a notification of prosecutors, without exception. Currently, such a procedure is at the discretion of heads of s...

Two motorcyclists were killed and another was critically injured on Thursday in accidents involving heavy vehicles at Karachi’s Sharea Faisal and National Highway, respectively, according to police and rescue officials. Rules restricting the movement of heavy vehicles were recently implemented in the metropolis amid rising traffic accidents involving dumpers and tankers, and protests over the deaths of citizens. Earlier this month, the provincial government banned the entry of heavy vehicles into the city during the daytime, only allowing them to operate from 11pm to 6am. Exemptions, however, were granted to trucks carrying water, petroleum products, medicines, meat and other essential goods. Last week, the Sindh government made it mandatory for all heavy vehicles in Karachi to have a physical fitness certificate amid the rising number of traffic accidents involving dumper trucks. In the first incident today, a young man was killed while his relative was injured when the duo met...

A member of India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist party was sworn in on Thursday as chief minister of New Delhi after an election landslide handed it control of the capital for the first time in decades. Rekha Gupta, 50, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the fourth woman to serve as chief minister of the sprawling megacity of more than 30 million people. The BJP is in government nationally but has not controlled the local legislature in Delhi since 1998, so its sweeping victory in seizing more than two-thirds of seats in the February 5 polls was both symbolic and strategically important. Gupta, who has a law degree and began her career in student politics in the city, was selected for the post by party members late on Wednesday. “I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office,” Gupta said while taking the oath of office in front of a crowd of cheering supporters. Modi, who was present at the ceremony, said in a post on X that Gup...