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Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti. Photo: APP/ File QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti has announced that all future appointments of Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASIs) in the Balochistan police will be carried out through departmental recruitment to ensure transparency, merit, and professionalism within the force. During his visit to the Central Police Office (CPO) Quetta, the Chief Minister laid a floral wreath at the Martyrs’ Monument, offered prayers, and paid glowing tributes to the fallen heroes of the Balochistan police. Later, he presided over a high-level meeting on police affairs, reviewing key administrative, operational, and structural matters. CM Bugti…

. SWABI: A key meeting was held between Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Member of the National Assembly and head of the Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aeen Pakistan, and former National Assembly Speaker and PTI leader Asad Qaiser, who also serves as the movement’s Secretary General. During the late-night meeting, Asad Qaiser briefed Achakzai in detail about his recent discussions with JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and took him into confidence on political developments. Both leaders expressed deep concern over the failure of the Istanbul talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, stressing that all bilateral issues, particularly those related to security, should be resolved through peaceful…

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. Photo: SCREENGRAB PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted a petition filed by former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, directing the federal and provincial authorities to remove his name from the Passport Control List (PCL). A two-member bench comprising Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Waqar Ahmad heard the petition on Thursday. During the proceedings, the bench questioned under what legal provision a person’s name could be added to the PCL merely on the basis of a First Information Report (FIR). Justice Arshad Ali observed that the court must know which types…

Decries decisions made behind closed doors, vows to uphold PTI’s mandate and Khan’s reform agendaKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. SCREENGRAB PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has expressed dissatisfaction over the province being excluded from consultations on Pakistan-Afghanistan talks, despite being a key stakeholder in the process. Speaking to the media after casting his vote for the Senate elections on Thursday, the chief minister said that while he welcomed dialogue between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the K-P government had not been taken into confidence. Afridi emphasized that Pakistan must prioritize its national interests, saying, “No country is anyone’s true ally; every…

‘Stranger Things 5’ returns with Vecna’s terrifying revengeMillie Bobby Brown and her Hawkins crew are back in action as Netflix finally dropped the long-awaited trailer for Stranger Things season five. The final chapter promised darker, more emotional fight as the heroes prepared for their last showdown with Vecna. Set in 1987, the story picked up after the chaos that tore Hawkins apart. The once quiet town was now under military lockdown, watched closely by surveillance cameras. However, life turned grim for Eleven and her friends while Vecna’s shadow still hung over them, hinting that his evil never truly ended.Series creator Ross Duffer…

.The writer is a geopolitical analyst. She also writes at globaltab.net and tweets @AneelaShahzad Like all great civilisations, Russia has evolved through a long history of political thought. At the end of Imperial Russia, along with the ideas of civilisational pluralism with Europe and a unique Russian identity, there were also ideas of anarchism, anti-state revolution and radical liberalism. Later, with the Soviet Union, came strict Marxism, socialism, egalitarianism and the revolutionary thoughts of Lenin and Trotsky. When the USSR broke down in 1991, Russia was forced to revise its political thought and seek its identity in a new unipolar…

.The writer is a political, security and defence analyst. He tweets @shazchy09 and can be contacted at shhzdchdhry@yahoo.com Afghanistan is a sore, but it has been so for all the years of Pakistan’s existence. More importantly, we have lived through it and kept a decent face. The Soviets and the Americans came and occupied it, and we lived through it despite the hostility that came from it. And, now under the Taliban, the animosity continues, betraying a long-held dislike, if not venom. The history of Afghan animus is well established. Zahir Shah and his cabal knew how to hold their…

Defence Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif (right), shakes hands with his Afghan counterpart Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, following the signing of a ceasefire agreement in Doha, Qatar, October 19, 2025. — ReutersIn a major development, Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban regime have agreed to maintain ceasefire following a fresh round of talks in Istanbul, confirmed Turkiye’s foreign ministry on late Thursday.“Further modalities of the implementation will be discussed and decided in a principal level meeting in Istanbul on 6 November 2025,” read a joint statement on the talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan through the mediation of Turkiye and Qatar. It further…

.The writer is a Lahore-based academic currently associated with Forman Christian College, a chartered university To the conscientious and the significant, As I ponder the meaning of history today, I am reminded of the Persian adage, “History repeats itself and the debt of sorrow remains unpaid.” In Pakistan, our understanding of history has been reduced to a simplistic narrative of dates and events, stripped of nuance and complexity. We inherit a legacy of biased chronicles, penned by the victors and rulers, while the voices of the real people remain whispers in the wind. Our art history, in particular, has been…

. While camera-assisted e-ticketing traffic management and surveillance system is nothing novel even to many a developing country, it is like a blot from the blue to motorists in Karachi who have hitherto been left virtually unstrained on the roads and highways in terms of speeding above the limit, driving without a licence, avoiding use of seatbelt and helmet while driving, overloading the vehicle, jumping the red light, parking illegally, etc. No wonder that within just six hours of the launch of TRACS (Traffic Regulation and Citation System) in the megalopolis, on Tuesday, as many as 2,662 traffic rules violations…