Month: September 2024
Germany intensifies border controls in immigration crackdown
Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement – the European Schengen zone – will start on September 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday. The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said,…
PM Shehbaz stresses need for political stability, continuity of policies
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stressed the need for political stability and continuity of policies in the country. The prime minister expressed these views while addressing a dinner hosted in the honor of parliamentarians from the coalition parties in Islamabad on Monday night. Speaking on the occassion, the PM strongly condemned the “inappropriate language” used at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) power show in Islamabad on Sunday. A day earlier, the Imran Khan-founded PTI staged a much-hyped power show featuring fiery speeches in Islamabad. During the rally, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister reportedly…
Four dead, 14 missing in Morocco flooding
and Algeria have been drenched in floods By AFP September 09, 2024 Moroccan authorities on Sunday said four people died and 14 were missing in flooding caused by an “exceptional” climate phenomenon in southern areas, AFP reported. “Four people have died and 14 have gone missing” since heavy rains began on Friday in the province of Tata, some 740 kilometres south of Rabat, a local official told AFP, saying the toll could potentially rise. “Eight houses were washed away by floods in some valleys” near Tamanart, a rural area in the Tata region, said…
Eight Afghan Taliban fighters killed in retaliatory fire along Pak-Afghan border
At least eight Afghan Taliban fighters were killed and 16 others injured in the early hours of Saturday (September 7) when Pakistani forces retaliated against unprovoked cross-border firing from Afghanistan’s Pilwasin area. According to Geo News, sources linked with border security personnel confirmed two “key commanders” of the Afghan Taliban, Khalil and Jan Muhammad, were killed in the exchange of fire. “Afghan Taliban opened fire towards Pakistani check-posts using advanced weaponry in Pilwasin on the morning of September 7.” Besides a spike in terrorist activities within the borders, Pakistan has…
Daily Metro Times-9 September 2024
Harris adapts Trump’s playbook, aims to beat him at his own game
WASHINGTON: Vice President of the US and presidential candidate Kamala Harris seems to be taking notes from former president Donald Trump’s playbook by focusing on evoking emotions among the American voters rather than explaining policies during 2024 election campaign. Since taking over from President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket in July, Harris has had to run her campaign in fast-forward, with just months to go before the November election. With few exceptions she has avoided press conferences, interviews and lengthy discussions on policy. Instead, her…
Pakistan’s economic crisis surges female workforce participation
KARACHI: Amina Sohail veers through heavy traffic to pick up her next passenger — the sight of a woman riding a motorcycle drawing stares in the megacity of Karachi. The 28-year-old is the first woman in her family to enter the workforce, a pattern emerging in urban households coming under increasing financial pressure in Pakistan. “I don’t focus on people, I don’t speak to anyone or respond to the hooting, I do my work,” said Sohail, who joined a local ride-hailing service at the beginning of this year. “Before, we…
ECP rejects PTI’s petition seeking to delay intra-party polls hearing
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday suffered a setback after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected its petition seeking delay in the hearing of the case about its intra-party polls till the issuance of clarification by the Supreme Court on its July 12 ruling on the reserved seats matter. The ECP, in its today’s verdict, said that the PTI had already delayed the issue of intra-party polls a lot and it wouldn’t be appropriate to defer the matter any further. The electoral body’s decision was reserved on August 27…