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Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has outlined as to when higher courts can cancel bail, adding that bail is not an unqualified right and can be withdrawn, if misused. In a three-page order in a case related to the cancellation of bail, the SC noted that the scope of the interference to be made by the SC in its appellate jurisdiction in matters of cancellation of bail are well settled and hardly need reiteration. According to the order, authored by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, bail, though a concession granted to ensure the liberty of an accused pending trial, is…

Since last week, nine Red Crescent crew members have been missing after they came under Israeli fire in Rafah.The president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has condemned Israel for targeting its paramedics as they “fulfil their humanitarian mission”. During a news conference in Ramallah, occupied West Bank on Sunday, Younis al-Khatib said the search to find nine missing team members in Gaza is ongoing. The PRCS lost contact with a crew on March 23, after they came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah, in southern Gaza. “Those souls are not mere numbers. If this incident [happened] anywhere else,…

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends the inauguration of a new hub in France dedicated to the artificial intelligence sector, at the Google France headquarters in Paris, France, on Feb. 15, 2024.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersAfter Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the matter with his employees at a company all-hands meeting. “We believe in building a representative workforce,” Pichai said, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “We’re a global company, we have users around the world, and we think the best way to serve them well is by…

PUBLISHED March 30, 2025 KARACHI: The bards of Sindh, known as Chaarans, have long been the custodians of oral tradition, their voices weaving tapestries of history, myth, and legend. These wandering minstrels once stood in the courts of kings, maharajas, chieftains, and nawabs, their verses resonating in grand halls, met with admiration and reverence. Their tongues carried the weight of royal epics, their memories safeguarded the chronicles of nations, and their songs breathed life into the annals of time. To hear a bard was to traverse the past, to live the triumphs and tragedies of those who came before. Even…

The Argentine star made an immediate mark upon his return to his club side, scoring the game-winning goal.Lionel Messi scored his second goal of the season less than two minutes after he entered the game as a second-half substitute, and Inter Miami held on for a 2-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Union. The 37-year-old star had missed Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers in South America during the recent international window after picking up an adductor strain in Miami’s most recent Major League Soccer (MLS) game, a 2-1 win at Atlanta on March 16. Finnish winger Robert Taylor had put Miami…

Staff members load relief materials onto a chartered flight at the Kunming Changshui International Airport in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, March 30, 2025. A chartered flight carrying about 7.3 tonnes of clothes, medicines, instant noodles, tents and other daily and relief materials took off on Sunday from Kunming, the capital city of China’s Yunnan Province, for Yangon, Myanmar, to support the earthquake relief work there. (Photo by Peng Yikai/Xinhua)KUNMING, March 30 (Xinhua) — A chartered flight operated by China Eastern Airlines took off from Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Sunday afternoon, carrying about 7.3 tonnes of…

PUBLISHED March 30, 2025 SUKKUR: Naila* a woman belonging to one of the villages of Rohri taluka, works with an NGO on a nutrition project for the betterment of pregnant and lactating women, malnourished adolescent girls and young children. She had prior permission of her husband to do this job which allowed her to work from home and not leave the house. Naila was eager to help her community by working as a focal person for the Nutrition Project, establishing a focal point in her home, and providing essential nutrition services to her village. Her sincerity and desire to help…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Japan is an ‘indispensable partner’ against Beijing in the Asia Pacific.United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says his country and Japan share a “warrior ethos” in tackling Chinese aggression across the Taiwan Strait. In a meeting in Tokyo on Sunday with his Japanese counterpart, Gen Nakatani, Hegseth said Japan was their “indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression”. “America is committed to sustaining robust, ready and credible deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait,” Hegseth said. In the past few years, China has increased its military presence around Taiwan, including near-daily…

About 3.5m tons of coal is imported every year to meet the country’s demand. The rest is met from coal mines in Balochistan. PHOTO: FILE PUBLISHED March 30, 2025 KARACHI: Pakistan is grappling with a deepening environmental crisis, driven by unchecked development, a burgeoning population, and the far-reaching impact of investments from its northern neighbour, China, which is reshaping the country’s landscape — from the coalfields of Tharparkar to the ports of Gwadar — at an alarming pace. In a wide-ranging interview, nuclear physicist and activist Pervez Hoodbhoy cautioned of the devastating toll of coal mining, water mismanagement, and the…

These are the key events on day 1,130 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where the war stands on Sunday, March 30: Fighting Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed 65 out of 111 drones launched by Russia overnight, which caused damage in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa and Donetsk regions. At least two people were killed and 25 injured in Kharkiv after a Russian drone strike targeted a military hospital, shopping centre, apartment buildings and other targets late on Saturday. Russia said it captured the village of Shchebraki in the southern Zaporizhia region and Panteleimonivka in the eastern Donetsk region. Moscow…