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Former federal minister Faisal Vawda asserted on Wednesday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, despite running alone in an ostensibly empty political landscape post-Imran Khan, would only secure the "fourth position". Vawda made these remarks during an appearance on the Express News programme "Kal Tak" hosted by Javed Chaudhry. He said that it was Khan who fuelled the May 9 riots, causing losses to both democracy and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Expressing scepticism about Sharif's political standing, Vawda insisted that even in the vacuum created by Khan's exit from politics, Sharif's narrative remains outdated. Read more: Imran’s interim bail dismissed in Toshakhana case “Nawaz’s narrative is completely outdated. Today, a two-member bench has declared him eligible [for elections]. Tomorrow, a three-member bench might declare him ineligible. We have seen decisions being reversed [in the past],” he added. The former federal minister hi...

Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday unveiled the country’s first-ever National Adaptation Plan (NAP) unanimously approved by the federal cabinet to enhance the nation’s resilience against adverse impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. NAP is a framework for implementing large-scale environmental adaptation, building climate resilience, promoting inclusivity, and facilitating collaboration among different stakeholders, and serves as an effective tool for climate finance mobilisation. The initiative marks a big step forward in Pakistan's commitment to combat the challenges posed by climate change. “Pakistan is now on the world's radar as a flashing hotspot for climate disasters, and when your house is on fire, one has to take responsibility,” she said in a press release issued by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination. She said that, after the 2022 mega-flood impacted 33 mil...

Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan’s issue with the Pakistan Army is not its announcement of political neutrality, but rather their denial of supporting him any longer. “Mr Khan's problem with Pakistan's Army began in April of last year when they [army] declared that they would not be involved in politics and they would not take sides. Mr Khan's issue with the Army in Pakistan is not that they're not involved in politics; his problem with the Pakistani army is they're not getting involved to support him,” Bilawal said during an interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday. On the historic role of the Pakistan Army in the politics of the country, he said that it cannot be hidden. “More than half of our history has been covered by military rule. My party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, has challenged each and every single dictatorship in Pakistan's history,” he added....