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Pakistani law students and law graduates inform JURIST about the national events affecting the country’s legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at the Faculty of Law, University of the Punjab. He sends this correspondent report from Lahore.All eyes are now on Pakistan’s Supreme Court to decide who gets the reserved seats, a decision that will be crucial in determining the direction of governance and possible constitutional reform. The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) appeal against a Peshawar High Court (PHC) ruling upholding the Election Commission of Pakistan’s…
Khloe Kardashian explored her relationship with her body on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Khloe Kardashian talks about her fitness journey The KardashiansDuring this week’s episode, she admitted that if Ozempic, a trendy diabetes medication and weight loss tool, had been available when she was first trying to lose weight, she would have taken it. During the July 11 episode of the Hulu show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the youngest Kardashian sister, 40, opened up about her passion for working out and fitness during a visit to the Fabletics offices as part of her partnership with the sportswear brand.…
In Maharashtra, the BJP and its ruling coalition have revived resort politics after a two-year hiatus. Mahayuthi The coalition partners, fearing cross-voting in the state assembly elections scheduled for Friday, shifted their state legislators to three hotels in Mumbai on Thursday.The Shiv Sena (UBT) is part of the opposition along with the Congress and Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP). Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) also took 16 councillors to hotel ITC Grand Central in Lower Parel.The 103 state BJP legislators were taken to the Taj President Caffe Parade, while 40 legislators from Chief Minister Shinde’s Shiv Sena were shifted to the sea-facing…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday postponed until July 12 its verdict on a petition filed by the opposition Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) seeking its fair share of seats in national and provincial assemblies.A 13-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa was hearing a petition filed by the SIC, backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), challenging the Peshawar High Court’s decision upholding the Election Commission’s decision to reject the allocation of parliamentary seats.The petition was filed after the apex electoral body rejected the SIC’s petition seeking allocation of 70 seats in the National…
In its human rights statement, Apple said, “We believe that an open society in which information flows freely is vital.” At the same time, Apple remains deeply involved in China, which is ruled by a party-state that does not allow the free flow of information. Apple says it must follow local laws, even if they are the laws of China’s authoritarian regime and go against the company’s human rights commitments.This tension has been going on for years, but a new report examining Apple’s App Store in China shows its findings. The store lacks many apps that are available in other…
Responding to a question from Hungarian state media, the foreign minister said there were “completely different views” on the issue.The remarks contrast with a strongly worded joint statement released by NATO on Wednesday. A warning to China About the support it brings RussiaThe invasion of Ukraine An ongoing warHungary became a NATO member in 1999.NATO’s statement, issued after a high-level summit on Wednesday, said China’s interests and reputation would be adversely affected if it did not end its political and material support for Moscow’s “war effort”.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said there was “no significant difference” between sending arms and supplying…
Mission Local will be publishing alternating campaign reports on each of the main candidates in the Mayoral election each week until November. This week it’s the London Breed. Read previous reports here. Mayor London Breed arrived just in time. On Wednesday evening, several dozen people gathered at the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee’s annual “Summer in the City” event at the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin, where Board of Supervisors Chairman Aaron Peskin was already in attendance. Several candidates for the Board of Supervisors were also in attendance, along with City Attorney David Chiu and California State Comptroller Maria Cohen.…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Thursday it was considering plans to expel hundreds of thousands more Afghans who have been longtime residents of the country, the latest move in a months-long government crackdown on illegal immigration.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told reporters that the plan was still in the works and that the government might ultimately reject it. This is the “second phase” of the “Illegal Aliens Repatriation Plan,” which envisages people being given identity cards called “Afghanistan National Cards” that will regularise their stay in Pakistan for a certain period of time.”At this stage, there is…
Washington Nationals legend Ryan Zimmerman, three-time Super Bowl-winning general manager Charlie Casserly and former Washington Mystics teammates Vicki Brett and Shamik Holdsclaw will be among nine people who will be honored as new members of the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame during a pregame ceremony at Nationals Park on July 21. The 1983-84 Georgetown University men’s basketball team, which won the school’s first national title under coach John Thompson, will be recognized as an “outstanding team.”This year’s recipients include former HD Woodson swimming coach Bruce Bradford, DC basketball pioneer E.B. Henderson, longtime D.C. United and Washington Wizards play-by-play announcer Dave…
Inflation has remained stubbornly above the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual target, but recent economic data has stoked the view that the central bank should cut interest rates sooner rather than later.An inflation gauge on Thursday showed that headline inflation fell from the previous month for the first time since May 2020, according to data from CME Group, and immediately prompted the market to price in around an 89% probability that the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates at its September meeting, up from 75% the previous day.The data is the latest to support the Fed’s interest rate cut.The U.S.…