Recent Supreme Court decisions have eased the way for states to enact more partisan gerrymanders. Now legislatures are racing to redraw their congressional maps in rare mid-decade redistricting efforts that may reconfigure the calculus of who will win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm elections this November.
These endeavors were inspired by President Donald…
United States President Donald Trump’s administration threatened to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations if the Palestinian ambassador refuses to end his candidacy for the vice presidency of the UN General Assembly, according to an internal State Department cable seen by _Reuters._
In a cable dated Wednesday, US diplomats in its embassy in Jerusalem are instructed…
Minnesota State Senator John Marty was furious with the nonprofit National Council on Problem Gambling, so much so that he couldn’t wait until morning to fire off an angry email. “I am deeply disappointed to see this!” he wrote to an NCPG staffer one night in April 2025, after a Senate colleague shared the draft of an op-ed by Keith Whyte, NCPG’s longtime executive director and one of America’s…
Pakistan expressed on Sunday “utmost satisfaction” over a supplemental award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that it said affirmed Islamabad’s position of the Indus Waters Treaty placing “substantive limits on India’s water-control capability” on Indus River system’s western rivers. The decision pertained to maximum pondage – a technical term for the maximum volume […]
ISLAMABAD: Human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, have submitted additional documents to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, bringing these on record before the hearing on Tuesday, May 12, on their plea, which seeks to set aside the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) order denying interim relief in the controversial social media posts case.
In December 2025, Imaan…
Australia on Friday imposed sanctions on the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and three of its senior leaders, according to a statement from Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s office.
“The Australian Government has today imposed counter-terrorism financing sanctions on the Balochistan Liberation Army and three senior leaders for their engagement in and support of terrorist attacks,” said the…
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PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Saturday moved the Peshawar High Court challenging the recent transfer of three judges of the Islamabad High Court to other provinces, along with the relevant constitutional provisions.
Advocate Hastham Khan Khalil filed a petition in the PHC, requesting that the Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP’s) April 28 decision to transfer judges of the IHC be declared…
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to stop operations against informal settlements to retrieve state land in Islamabad after the hue and cry over the prime minister’s decision to halt action against the ‘One Constitution’ skyscraper.
After a court order, the CDA and police had arrived outside the twin towers on Constitution Avenue to vacate the building, but the…
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) has challenged the transfer of three judges of the Islamabad High Court to provincial high courts, filing a petition in the Supreme Court and raising constitutional and transparency concerns.
The LHCBA, through senior lawyer Hamid Khan, has taken the plea that the transfers violate Article 2A of the Constitution and lack transparency,…
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Monday suspended the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) December 23, 2025, decision declaring key provisions of the Passport Rules 2021, which allowed the government to render a citizen’s passport inactive and impose long-term travel bans on deportees and human trafficking suspects, as ultra vires.
With the suspension of the LHC order, the federal…
President Donald Trump endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for reelection just days after Vice President JD Vance slammed the European Union for supposedly interfering in Hungary’s elections.
Writing on Truth Social Thursday night, Trump once again endorsed Orbán, the strongman leader who captured the imagination of conservative populists, just days before the country’s…
Will there be a Supreme Court vacancy in 2026? The November midterms are inching closer—and with them, the slim but growing prospect of a Democratic Senate majority next January. If any conservative justices want to guarantee that a conservative president nominates their successor, their window to get out while the getting is good is closing fast.
Of the court’s two eldest members, it is…
Pakistan repaid $1.43 billion in external debt, including a $1.3 billion Eurobond maturing on April 8, Adviser to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad said on Tuesday.
“As part of its routine course of external debt management, Pakistan has repaid its $1.3bn Eurobond maturing on April 8 — on schedule and in full,” he said in a post on the social media platform X.
“Alongside, the country has…
LAHORE: Traders across Punjab have appealed to the federal and provincial governments to implement the decision of closing businesses at 8pm across the board without any discrimination, including in the residential and commercial localities falling within limits of cantonments and Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
“We accept the proposal and decision of the federal government to close markets,…
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) decision to include online broadcasting under its jurisdiction is an overreach, ideological, but also part of a global push to control speech.
Israel said the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem would regain access to Christianity’s holiest site after the decision to block him from entering the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday triggered international condemnation.
Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the church, citing security concerns as Israel enforces a ban on gatherings in synagogues, churches and mosques…
On the 24th day of the US-Israeli war on Iran, President Donald Trump’s decision to defer planned strikes on Iran’s power plants and energy infrastructure by five days introduced a tactical pause in an otherwise escalating conflict, essentially extending the 48-hour ultimatum into a more uncertain holding phase.
The shift from threats of “obliteration” to claims of “productive conversations”…
Historical FCC precedent includes cases where station owners lost their broadcast licenses for deliberately skewing news coverage toward favored political candidates.
LARKANA: Despite a decision taken in January to send a cluster of coins dug out from Mohenjo Daro to a lab in Karachi in order to establish their age, the purported artefacts are still lying at the site.
Trust deficit is cited as the reason, as a couple of officials concerned without mincing words had expressed their apprehension that the object might be stolen or damaged in the process.
The…
Student Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers Local 2710 has just voted to authorize a strike. (Madison Ogletree / Student Workers of Columbia)
Columbia University has been a…
KARACHI: Industrialists and businessmen criticised the government’s decision to suspend gas supply to industries for two days a week, along with curtailment to fertiliser plants, claiming it would further strain Pakistan’s fragile economy, especially with a recent power tariff increase.
Pakistan is already confronting major economic difficulties due to the steadily increasing cost of doing…
Today's CPUC voting meeting marked the final time Commissioner Alice Reynolds was present for her role as CPUC president. President Reynolds is moving on to work with the CAISO, and fellow commissioner John Reynolds (no relation) will succeed her as head of the public utilities agency.
Gavin Newsom Installs John Reynolds as New CPUC PresidentAlice Reynolds will step down later this month and…
This month, the Supreme Court of Canada released its first, and likely only, major decision addressing COVID-era restrictions. The case, Taylor v. Newfoundland and Labrador, considered the fundamental constitutional question of whether Canadians have a right to move freely within their own country. Read More
ISLAMABAD: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi reiterated a decision made last year to issue visas to over 10,000 skilled Pakistani workers, saying that it was aimed at promoting “legal migration”.
Italy would issue 10,500 work visas for Pakistan’s skilled workers to promote “legal migration”, he said during a meeting with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Rome, according to a statement…
The Punjab home department submitted a report to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday stating that 17 people died during the recent Basant festival in Lahore.
The three-day Basant festival was held in Lahore from February 6-8, following the Punjab government’s decision to lift a ban on the historic event after 18 years, with strict regulations.
However, despite the government’s emphasis on…
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WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrives here on Wednesday (today) to attend the global summit of the Board of Peace (BoP) hosted by US President Donald…
ISLAMABAD/CAIRO: The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Tuesday condemned what they described as Israel’s decision to designate land in the occupied West Bank as “state land” and to approve new land registration and settlement procedures.
According to Pakistan’s Foreign Office, in a joint statement, the ministers…
Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington was itself a reflection of how beholden he was to the disgraced peer. (Jason Alden / Bloomberg via Getty…
The CPUC's February 5 voting meeting authorized several notable decisions.
First and foremost, the Commission adopted a decision in the Energization rulemaking (R.24-01-018) that directs PG&E and SCE to establish a standardized, tariffed “Standard Offer” Flexible Service Connection to accelerate energization for customers facing distribution capacity constraints.
"A flexible service connection…