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Prime Minister's Adviser on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan could be moved to a hospital if directed by a court, amid the party's demands regarding his health and calls for his transfer to Islamabad's Shifa International Hospital. Imran has been in custody since August 2023, serving a sentence at Adiala Jail in a £190 million corruption case. He also faces pending trials under the Anti-Terrorism Act in connection with protests on May 9, 2023. Read More: Khosa raises concern over Imran health The PTI has intensified calls for his release after a medical report submitted to the court stated that vision in his right eye had dropped to 15 per cent. Government officials, however, maintain that he is receiving appropriate medical care. Speaking in an interview on programme 'Capital Talk' on a private news outlet, Sanaullah said the PTI founder was in judicial custody and not under executive or any ot...

In Pakistan, Ramazan does not arrive like an ordinary month. It descends like a season namely half sacred, half social and fully intense. The atmosphere changes, markets glow, and we greet each other with 'Ramazan Mubarak'. Yet, too often, we reduce this month to a change of routine rather than a change of character. As a university teacher for many years, I observe a familiar shift every Ramazan across campus: not only in schedules, but in attitudes. A quiet assumption spreads that responsibility can be postponed. Classes begin to feel heavier, office corridors move slower, and the unspoken sentence becomes: "It's Ramazan, so things can wait." But if Ramazan means anything, it should mean the opposite i.e. more discipline, more integrity, more patience, and more care for others. In classrooms, students look tired in a deeper way than physical fatigue. Many are already carrying the modern burdens of weak sleep, mental distraction, financial pressure and family str...

Two policemen were martyred and several others were injured after a suicide attack targeted an inter-provincial checkpost in the Dajal area of Punjab's Bhakkar on Tuesday evening. District Police Officer (DPO) Bhakkar Shehzad Rafiq Awan confirmed the incident and said security forces immediately cordoned off the area in Saddar jurisdiction and launched a search operation. He said the blast occurred at around 6:54pm, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the checkpost while officers were performing routine duties. داجل بین الصوبائی چیک پوسٹ بھکر پر خودکش حملہ، 2 پولیس اہلکار شہید، 1 زخمی آئی جی پنجاب عبدالکریم کا فرض کی راہ میں شہادت کا رتبہ پانے والے کانسٹیبل فہیم عباس اور شہباز مدنی کی لازوال قربانی کو خراج عقیدت، آئی جی پنجاب کا سوگوار خاندانوں سے اظہار ہمدردی و تعزیت، زخمی… pic.twitter.com/m6ZlGJrtAg — PTV News (@PTVNewsOfficial) February 24, 2026 He added that Constables Faheem Abbas and Shahbaz Madni were critically injured in the explosion and succumb...

Gaza was never going to be the end. This week, speaking to Tucker Carlson, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Israel has a biblical right to land covering territory between Egypt and Iraq. When told that the verse includes land far beyond Gaza and the West Bank, he responded that it would be "fine if they took it all". The significance of this lies in its premise, that sovereignty is being derived from a divine promise. Once territorial claims are framed as biblical entitlement, they cease to be bound by international law or moral obligations. They are no longer constrained by the June 4, 1967 lines, by UN resolutions or by negotiated settlement. A divine mandate does not recognise compromise, nor partition. It only reecognises the fact that the goal is to be achieved at any cost. That is why Pakistan, alongside 13 other countries and major regional organisations, moved swiftly to condemn the remarks as highly dangerous and inflammatory. Their joint statement reaffirm...

Pakistan's airstrikes on terrorists hideouts in southern Afghanistan solely came in self-defence. The sorties flown over the Nangarhar and Paktika provinces, the staging ground for insurgency and infiltration into Pakistan, took out more than 80 terrorists. The attacks were conducted after hectic episodes of diplomacy, wherein Kabul was requested to go after the dreaded elements holed up inside Afghanistan – but in vain. A demarche was also served on the Afghan deputy head of mission in Islamabad last week, formally mentioning the terror nexus that has emboldened due to the Taliban regime's irresponsible attitude and its policy of appeasement towards the terrorists. It is a foregone conclusion that terror emanates from Afghanistan, and this has been documented twice by the world body in the last couple of months. The 37th report by the UNSC's Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, released on February 4, confirmed Pakistan's longstanding claim that the TTP is...

For better or for worse, academia is different than the corporate sector. It is meant to engage a deeper sense of analysis, to allow for issues to be debated and reflected upon. Learning is deliberate and incremental. For an enterprise that is built on serious engagement of the mind, emphasis must be on fundamentals, rigour and quality, not on sweeping changes to the curriculum in response to global trends and events. It is not to say that global trends and events are not important; it is simply to say that the academic approach to those changes must be rooted in care, thought and rigour, not on impulsive behaviour. The recent announcement by HEC that starting 2026 all undergraduate and post-graduate programmes must have a three-credit hour course on AI is more of the latter (impulse) than the former (serious thought). The justification, as per HEC, is that "in the fast-changing landscape of the 21st century, Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a revolutionary force" – and...