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PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: Pakistan’s parliament has passed the eagerly awaited Islamabad Capital Territory Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2025 restricting marriage below 18 years of age, meanwhile, the Council of Islamic Ideology and conservative parties have challenged the bill publically and in the Federal Sharia Court. Similar developments are seen in neighbouring India, which endangers the enforcement of rights in a completely different way. India’s Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is a bill pending in the Indian national assembly (Lok Sabha) which has long been a constitutional aspiration to standardise religious groups’ personal laws in India. A version of it…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic attends the opening ceremony of a Chinese-built highway section in southwestern Serbia’s Lucani municipality, July 5, 2025. S (Photo by Wang Wei/Xinhua)He noted that the newly completed section not only connects northern and western Serbia, but also strengthens people-to-people ties, improves traffic flow, boosts economic development, and enhances quality of life.LUCANI, Serbia, July 6 (Xinhua) — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Saturday inaugurated the final segment of the E-763 “Milos Veliki” highway between Pakovrace and Pozega, completing the entire 30.9-km Preljina-Pozega section.The opening ceremony took place at the entrance of the Munjino Brdo tunnel in southwestern…

PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: Glastonbury 2025 was always going to be charged, but few expected the seismic waves sent rippling through the global cultural sphere when Bob Vylan, mid-performance on the Left Field stage, roared out the chant “Death, death to the IDF” to a crowd erupting in cheers. The moment, aired uncut by the BBC, was joined hours later by Belfast rap group Kneecap voicing support for Palestine from the West Holts stage. Mo Chara, one of the trio’s frontmen, wore a Palestinian keffiyeh as he led chants of “Free Palestine” and “F*ck Keir Starmer”, calling out the…

PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: On paper, M* is living the life. She has a job she likes as a biomedical scientist and research fellow in women’s health. She has found her purpose: working to improve the lives of women with chronic health conditions through her FemTech start-up. So why does she want to kill herself every month? What is PMDD? M suffers from PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, a much more severe form of PMS, premenstrual syndrome. According to Dr. Benicio Frey, a psychiatrist at the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, Canada, both PMS and…

PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: In a cruel twist of irony, America’s Independence Day is being celebrated with the largest upward transfer of wealth in the country’s history. By signing the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, President Donald Trump has turned Robin Hood into a bogeyman – and made the rich the rightful folk heroes. With the sweeping tax-and-spending package, Trump has unleashed a legislative juggernaut that brings Karl Marx’s warning into brutal focus: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery at the opposite pole.” The bill robs…

PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 SWAT: On June 28, the summer sun rose over the Swat Valley to start a picture perfect day. A favourite retreat for holidaymakers from across the country fleeing the searing heat of urban centres, Swat was in peak tourist season. The valley’s winding roads were packed with vehicles carrying families in search of cool breezes, mountain views and memories. Around 8am, two families arrived in Mingora’s Babozai area among the many other travellers. One family came from Mardan and the other had come from Sialkot. After a light breakfast at a roadside hotel, they made their…

PUBLISHED July 06, 2025 KARACHI: Over the past decade, India has barely made the effort to conceal its insatiable appetite for destabilising Pakistan. That ambition has pulsated beneath every wave of anti-Pakistan vitriol — a chorus that has only grown more pronounced with time. But its most obvious display surfaced in 2014, shortly after the inauguration of Narendra Modi, when his newly appointed National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, laid out the cards in a speech at Sastra University that left little to the imagination. “Pakistan’s vulnerability is many, many times higher than (that of India’s). Once they know India has…

Akash Deep took 10 wickets in a Test match for the first time as India thrashed England by 336 runs at Edgbaston on Sunday for a series-levelling win. Deep was playing in the second Test of the five-match series after India rested outstanding quick Jasprit Bumrah. The 28-year-old took 6-99 as England, set a mammoth 608 runs to win, were dismissed for 271 on the fifth day. Deep’s match figures of 10-147 were far and away the best of his eight-Test career. Jamie Smith was the lone England batter to pass fifty in the second innings, with the wicketkeeper’s 88…

Listen to article KARACHI: A 50-hour-long search and rescue operation in the Baghdadi area of Lyari — where a five-storey residential building collapsed on Friday morning — concluded on Sunday, with 27 confirmed deaths and 10 injuries. “Twenty-seven people lost their lives in the Lyari tragedy, while eleven others were injured. Among the deceased are eleven women and sixteen men, including a one-and-a-half-year-old girl,” confirmed the Civil Hospital administration. The report states that 26 bodies were brought to the hospital, while 55-year-old Fatima succumbed to her injuries during treatment. “Of the injured, ten people were discharged after receiving medical treatment. However, 30-year-old…

Lando Norris won a treacherous rain-hit British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg took third for the veteran German’s first-ever podium in 239 race starts. Briton Norris returned to a rapturous reception from his home fans as he moved to within eight points of Piastri in the drivers’ standings. “It’s beautiful, everything I ever dreamed of, this is everything I wanted to achieve, aside from winning the championship this is as good as it gets,” beamed Norris. Piastri, who finished less than seven seconds behind Norris, threw away the win after…