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Abdullah Abbas waded through Lahore’s flooded streets, struggling to push his motorcycle and deliver a food order on time. The water had risen to his torso, his jeans soaked and rolled up over sandals, leaving him vulnerable to electrocution and infectious diseases. “If I don’t deliver the orders, my account will get blocked, which would leave me without money,” Abbas told AFP in the old quarter of Lahore, known for its narrow, congested streets. “I need this money to pay my high school fees,” added the 19-year-old, who is completing his last year of secondary school. Since June, monsoon rains…
File photo: “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”Randy Holmes | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty Images”Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to air Tuesday night, generating 6.26 million total viewers despite significant preemptions across 23% of U.S. TV households, according to data from Nielsen shared by Disney.This viewership is exponentially higher than average. During the 2024-2025 season, a period that ran from September to May, Kimmel’s average viewership was 1.42 million.The pretaped show, which airs on the Disney-owned ABC, marked the first time host Jimmy Kimmel publicly addressed his suspension from late night following comments he made during a previous show’s monologue that criticized members of President…
RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed 13 terrorists involved in numerous activities, including facilitating a suicide bombing, abductions, and the targeted killing of government officials and civilians, during an intelligence-based operation in Dera Ismail Khan, the military’s media wing said in a statement. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces launched an intelligence-based operation on reports of the presence of terrorists belonging to the Indian proxy group ‘Fitna al Khwarij’, in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. During the operation, troops killed 13 Indian-sponsored terrorists and seized weapons and ammunition. The ISPR said the terrorists, killed in…
The Lahore High Court has ruled that under Islamic law, a marriage contracted after attaining puberty is valid, even if the individual is below the age set in the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929. In Punjab, the minimum marriage age is 18 for males and 16 for females. Justice Tariq Mahmood Bajwa delivered the ruling while dismissing a petition filed by a father seeking to recover his 15-year-old daughter. The father claimed his daughter, aged 15 years and 8 months, was in the illegal custody of Mudassar Ali and his family. Earlier, the police reported they could not recover her, but…
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the 80th session of the UN’s General Assembly (UNGA) on Sept. 23, 2025 in New York City.Alexi J. Rosenfeld | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was the victim of a “triple sabotage” at the United Nations a day earlier, where an escalator, teleprompter and microphone all failed to work for him.”A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.”This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage…
Pakistan raised the issue of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on the sidelines of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting during the United Nations General Assembly’s 80th session. In a Foreign Office statement, Pakistan—joined by Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Niger—reiterated “unwavering support for the Kashmiri people’s inalienable right to self-determination.” “Emphasised that some of the Indian leaders’ unwarranted claims and irresponsible statements about Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan constitute a threat to regional peace.” According to a post shared by the Foreign Office on X, “Further condemned the prolonged detention of the thousands of Kashmiri political workers, dissenters…
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. ET and features a diverse lineup of guests that include celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. Randy Holmes | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty ImagesNexstar Media Group said Wednesday it is continuing to evaluate whether it will bring “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” back to its ABC-affiliate stations, a day after the late night show returned to the Disney-owned network.Nexstar’s broadcast TV stations affiliated with ABC did not air Kimmel’s return to late night on Tuesday.”Nexstar is continuing…
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, waves to people while attending a gala marking the 70th founding anniversary of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Urumqi, the regional capital, on Sept. 24, 2025. Xi joined people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang to watch the gala entitled “Beautiful Xinjiang.” (Xinhua/Shen Hong)URUMQI, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a gala marking the 70th founding anniversary of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Urumqi, the regional capital, on Wednesday evening.Xi, also general secretary of the…
World Bank Group President Ajay Banga met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in New York, where the premier hailed the Bank’s long-standing support to Pakistan, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating 2022 floods. PM Shehbaz briefed Banga on the government’s comprehensive reform agenda covering resource mobilisation, energy-sector reforms, privatisation and measures to build resilience against climate change. He said these reforms have steered Pakistan towards macroeconomic stabilisation, restored investor confidence and promoted sustainable, inclusive economic growth. The prime minister expressed appreciation for the World Bank’s new Country Partnership Framework (2026–2035), under which the Bank has committed an unprecedented…
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa attends a protest against a tent shelter for migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on August 22, 2023. Paul Frangipane | Corbis News | Getty ImagesCurtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee in the race for mayor of New York City, said Wednesday that he has received at least seven calls from “emissaries” of wealthy people who have repeatedly offered him money to end his campaign.Sliwa slammed those offers as “unethical and illegal.”And he warned that if he receives one more such offer, he will begin revealing names of the…