Kundi calls on PM to 'take interest' in KP's issues, says told CM Afridi to focus on governance not Adiala

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi called on the Centre to address his province’s issues, asserting that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif “should take interest” in the matter.

At the same time, he also said he had conveyed to KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to focus on the “province’s governance rather than Adiala” — a reference to the PTI’s efforts and frequent protests outside the…

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Justice Aurangzeb calls for encouraging alternative dispute resolution, says SC to establish mediation centre

Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb has called on the judiciary to encourage alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and detailed the Supreme Court’s ongoing efforts to establish a mediation centre.

In remarks aired on television on Monday, the SC judge stressed the need for mediators to be referred more cases, saying, “For that, the courts have to be willing to refer cases to mediation and must never…

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Governor Kundi meets PTI leaders, asserts KP's case should be presented 'firmly, collectively' to the Centre

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi in a meeting with PTI leaders on Sunday at Governor House KP discussed the province’s constitutional and economic rights, stressing on the need to present a firm case before the federal government to ensure “justice and fair treatment”.

In a social media post on X, Governor Kundi said that PTI leaders, including former National Assembly speaker Asad…

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CM Afridi announces pen-down strike on May 6 over Centre’s ‘discrimination’ against KP

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Tuesday announced a province-wide pen-down strike tomorrow (May 6) over the federal government’s alleged “discrimination” against KP.

In a statement, CM Afridi contended that the Centre was discriminating against KP because the province has a government led by former premier Imran Khan’s PTI.

“The federal government is deliberately…

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Can the King be the UK’s Trump card?

“Time and again, our two countries have always found ways to come together,” King Charles III is expected to tell the US Congress later today, in what will be the first address to Congress by a British monarch since 1991.

The King’s words are a tacit acknowledgment that his trip to the US, the first British state visit since 2007, comes at a precarious moment for the “special…

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Iran threatens another waterway, Guyana sees economic boom, IMF warns of economic impact from Middle East conflict

There’s another waterway to worry about

While the world’s attention for the last month and a half has been on the Strait of Hormuz, it may soon switch to another vital shipping lane in the Middle East: the Red Sea. Why? On Wednesday, Tehran threatened to halt shipping there if the United States continued its blockade of ships that stopped at Iranian ports before exiting via Hormuz. Iran…

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‘Privilege for none’: Pakistan calls for abolition of UNSC veto power, rejects new permanent seats

Reaffirming its consistent policy, Pakistan has called for the abolition or severe restriction of the veto power and strongly opposed any expansion of permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

The stance was expressed by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, at a resumed session of the long-running Intergovernmental Negotiations…

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Finance minister assures KP CM Afridi of ‘full support’ in resolving all ‘legitimate issues’

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Tuesday assured his “full support” to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi for the “resolution of all legitimate issues”, according to the finance ministry.

The meeting comes a day after President Asif Ali Zardari chaired a meeting in Islamabad with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the chief ministers of all provinces, including Afridi.

His…

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Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship

Emails from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the late pedophile trying to connect far-right tech mogul Peter Thiel and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on at least six separate occasions.


The germ of the involvement of Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the Middle East may well have had its origins with Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents released earlier this year by the Department…

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The Left Could Learn Something From Trump’s Tariff Gambit

Donald Trump enacted his trade policy at the stroke of a pen for a whole year by acting quickly and assertively while the courts debated his tariffs’ constitutionality. It’s an approach the Left can use to much better ends.


Trump’s tariff policy, and his presidency as a whole, have been a real-world experiment in using the power of the office to affect change even without Congress on…

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Donald Trump, Warmonger-in-Chief

The United States is attacking Iran because Donald Trump was determined to drag us into war no matter what — and despite repeatedly insisting he would do the exact opposite.


Trump’s entire approach this term has been to do the exact opposite of what he promised people he would do. Perhaps nowhere have such lies been more blatant than in his attacking Iran. (President Trump via Truth…

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