Trump announced sweeping global tariffs President Trump unveiled yesterday his most expansive tariffs to date, hitting all of the U.S. trading partners except Canada and Mexico with a 10 percent tariffs. Europe and China will face much higher rates. At a ceremony at the White House, Trump called the announcement “our declaration of economic independence.”…
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Mian Rauf Atta has urged the federal and provincial governments to form a fully empowered committee to hold negotiations with Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Akhtar Mengal. Last Friday, the BNP-M announced a long march from Wadh to Quetta to protest against the arrests of Baloch Yakjehti Committee…
Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired that rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, N.J., where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 75. The cause of death,…
The Department of Agriculture said on Thursday that it had frozen federal funding for education programs in Maine, the latest in a barrage of actions targeting the state since its Democratic governor, Janet Mills, sparred with President Trump over the issue of transgender athletes at the White House in February. The agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins,…
KARACHI: Pakistani pilgrims departing from Karachi and Islamabad for Hajj this year will once again benefit from the “Road to Makkah” initiative, which streamlines immigration procedures before departure. The Ministry of Religious Affairs has issued a letter to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) director general, instructing officials to ensure all necessary arrangements for Hajj operations…
Lawyers for a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported last month to a notorious Salvadoran prison despite an order that he could remain in the United States angrily urged the judge overseeing his case on Wednesday to force the Trump administration to bring him back as soon as possible. In a court filing, the lawyers…
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry participated in the Border Security Summit 2025 held in London, where he met with UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, UK Deputy Foreign Minister Hamish Faulkner, and Angela Eagle. Chaudhry also held discussions with interior ministers from Germany, Spain, Austria, and Poland, focusing on border security and international…
In urging “disaffected patriots” to head to the polls on Tuesday and cast ballots in Wisconsin’s election, the political advocacy group Look Ahead America relied partly on a fairly perfunctory get-out-the-vote strategy: It spammed about 250,000 residents on Monday with a text message that reminded them of the issues at stake. That text message came…
ISLAMABAD: The government is set to unveil its National Minerals Harmonisation Framework 2025 at the Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum 2025 (PMIF25), scheduled for April 8-9. The framework aims to streamline mining regulations across provinces, ensuring a structured and investor-friendly mineral policy to attract both domestic and foreign investments said a news release. The federal government,…
The shooter who killed three third graders and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville two years ago acted alone in hopes of achieving infamy, a police investigation has concluded. The investigation, a summary of which the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released on Wednesday, found that the shooter, a former student at the…
