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Art and supernatural lovers were left spellbound as the ‘ Yokai Parade — Supernatural Monsters from Japan ’ exhibition closed its doors for Karachiites. The three-day exhibition, held from Monday to Wednesday, showcased pieces reproduced from various art forms that depicted yokai — best described as “Japanese folkloric imaginary monsters”. Words such as ghosts and jinns do not suffice to categorise what yokai are, since these imaginary beings dating centuries back have various shapes, sizes, myths, and even behaviours, thanks to the creativity of Japanese artists. As time passed, the art medium for these depictions changed from picture scrolls to woodblock prints to card games and popular media, which were displayed at the event (most of them being fine-quality replicas). The Karachi exhibition was organised by the Japan Foundation in collaboration with the Consulate-General of Japan in Karachi, the Pakistan Japan Cultural Association (PJCA), and the State Bank of Pakistan Muse...

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Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom — engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now — is not open to financial compensation, officials and analysts say. “I think segments of British society might be ready to talk about reparation but you have other sectors, the majority really, that strongly oppose it,” Sascha Auerbach, director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery at Nottingham University, told AFP . Meeting last week at a summit in Samoa, the Commonwealth’s 56 members said the “ time has come ” for talks about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, in a landmark declaration that raised the prospect of future reparations. African, Caribbean, and Pacific nations want Britain — and other colonial powers — to apologise for slavery and other ills of colonisation, and to start talks about compensation. Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer , a former human rights lawyer, has rejected both requests, arguing tha...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the “Terminator” star and former Republican governor of the US state of California, endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday as the only way to “turn the page” on Donald Trump’s divisiveness. The former bodybuilder, 77, said that while he had issues with both major parties, Trump’s rhetoric calling the United States “a trash can for the world” had made him “furious”. With just days until the November 5 election, Schwarzenegger becomes the latest of dozens of prominent former Republican officials — including former vice president Dick Cheney — to endorse the Democratic candidate for president over Trump. “To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America … a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious,” said the actor. “I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” he wrot...

GAZA / BEIRUT: An Israeli air strike on a single residential block in Beit Lahiya killed nearly 100 people on Tuesday, leaving rescuers scrambling through rubble for survivors, with medics saying that at least 20 children were among the dead. Meanwhile, at least 60 people, including children, were killed and 58 others wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley. Separately, eight Austrian soldiers belonging to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) sustained injuries in a rocket strike on the force’s headquarters in Naqoura. Palestinian rescuers and desperate family members gathered round the demolished five-storey block in Beit Lahiya in the north of Gaza. A charred body with long hair hung out of an upper-storey window and corpses wrapped in blankets were lined up in the street below, as stunned relatives sought to identify the dead. Nearly 100 killed in Beit Lahiya airstrike; 60 dead in attacks on Bekaa Valley; US envoy presses Israel on Gaza humanitari...

QUETTA / GWADAR: Mil­itants killed five private security guards dep­loyed on the construction site of a dam in Panjgur district of Makran division on Tuesday, officials said. A Balochistan government spokesman said the attack took place in the early hours of Tuesday. Late on Tuesday night, the outlawed Baloch Libera­tion Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims were hired by the contractor for security duty at the dam site in the Promom area of Panjgur, officials added. A senior police official told Dawn that the assailants, armed with automatic weapons, arrived at the site on motorcycles. Victims were protecting dam construction site “Over a dozen armed men attacked the dam site where the victims were looking after the equipment and machinery,” the police officer said, adding the victims briefly returned fire but they were outnumbered. The Balochistan government spokesperson, Shahid Rind, said all five victims were locals. He said security forces mov...

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KURRAM: Two Fron­tier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred when unidentified shooters opened fire on Tall Scouts in the Char Khel area of Lower Kurram district on Monday, police sources said. The attack was carried out at a time when half a million residents have been facing acute shortage of daily commodities due to uncertain situation in the district, with several roads closed and public transport off the road. The police sources said that the FC personnel were deployed for the pro­tection of road users when some unidentified armed men attacked them. The two FC personnel suffered injuries in the attack and were rushed to Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Tall. Later, police sources said both personnel could not survive. Residents seek security instead of road closures, say children can’t go to school Meanwhile, locals complained that roads were closed and patients could not be transported to hospitals, adding that there was acute shortage of medicines in the area. Medical su...

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• Minister stresses need for ‘DNA change’; says database to be utilised to identify tax evaders • After Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi airports to also go under the hammer • World Bank agrees to provide grant for capacity-building WASHINGTON: Not trading with your neighbours doesn’t make sense, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Sunday, when asked a question on increasing regional trade, particularly with India. Speaking at a wide-ranging presser, held at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, he clarified that while “political connotations” or “geopolitical issues” affecting regional trade were outside his purview, Pakistan was “already engaging with its neighbours”. He noted that all intergovernmental organisations effe­ctively serve as “regi­onal corridors,” citing examples from south-east Asia and the countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). “We recently attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference and are keen to joi...

Speaker of the National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said on Sunday that he would not follow the Supreme Court’s order on the reserved seats case, stating that he would wait for a decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before taking action. Speaking on the Geo News programme ‘Jirga with Saleem Safi’, the speaker also said that the Supreme Court cannot challenge the recently passed 26th constitutional amendment , stating that doing so “would go against the Constitution itself”. “It is the Election Commission’s job to notify members,” Sadiq said. “If we start listening to courts, there are many decisions … We won’t do it on the court’s order, we will wait for the ECP to notify it,” he added. The speaker added that he would receive court orders, but would not act on them, instead wait for a notification from the ECP. In July, the top court declared the PTI eligible to receive reserved seats for women and non-Muslims in the national and provincial assemblies, giving it a ...

Two people were killed and 36 others were injured when a Rawalpindi-bound passenger bus fell into a ravine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Kohistan area on Sunday evening, according to a rescue official. Rescue 1122 spokesperson Abdur Rehman told Dawn.com that a private company’s passenger bus carrying 38 passengers bound for Rawalpindi from Skardu fell into a ravine near the Shetial area in Upper Kohistan’s Harban tehsil. “The bus driver and a passenger died in the accident and 36 others were injured and had been shifted to district headquarters hospital Chilas in Diamer,” he said. The spokesperson identified the deceased passenger as Mohammad Nadeem, a resident of Vehari in Punjab and bus driver Sadaqat Hussain, a resident of Gilgit’s Dinor area. Rehman told Dawn.com that most of the injured hailed from Skardu, four from the Bisham Dandai area of Shangla, and two from parts of Punjab province. Some patients in critical condition are undergoing surgeries while the rest are stable...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan issued a strong condemnation on Saturday of Israel’s missile strikes on Iran , describing them as a “grave violation” of the country’s sovereignty and international law. In a statement , the Foreign Office warned that the attacks posed a significant threat to peace and stability in an already volatile region. “Israeli military strikes against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran are a grave violation of the UN Charter and international law. “These strikes undermine the path to regional peace and stability and also constitute a dangerous escalation,” the FO said, holding Israel responsible for an “escalation and expansion of the conflict”. Starmer says Israel has right to self-defence; Biden hopes ‘this is the end’ after strikes Pakistan also urged the UN Security Council to step in and halt “Israeli recklessness in the region and its criminal behaviour.” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif echoed these concerns on social media, condemning the att...

GUJAR KHAN / ISLAMABAD: Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, the sisters of PTI founder Imran Khan, were released from the Jhelum District Jail on Friday after a judge granted them bail . Noreen Naizi, Mr Khan’s third sister, family members and party workers gathered outside the prison and welcomed the two women, who were detained for allegedly leading a protest in Islamabad earlier this month. The crowd showered them with rose petals and chanted slogans in support of Mr Khan and his sisters. In a brief talk with reporters, Ms Aleema claimed she and her sister were kept isolated from other inmates and not allowed facilities like TV and telephone calls. The release of Mr Khan’s sisters came two days after his wife, Bushra Bibi, was granted bail in the Toshakhana case. Ms Aleema said her brother was also detained in the same case and demanded his release as well. Ms Niazi dismissed the speculation that back-to-back bails were a result of any “deal” with the powers that be. Sources said...

• 10 FC men lose their lives while repulsing assault on D.I. Khan checkpoint • Army cadet gunned down trying to save people in Lakki Marwat mosque • Soldier, three cops targeted in Bannu, S. Waziristan and Khyber DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: At least 15 security personnel were martyred in militant attacks across Khyber Pakh­tun­khwa over the past couple of days, officials and sources confirmed. The deadliest incident occurred in the Darazinda area of Dera Ismail Khan district, where 10 Frontier Constabulary (FC) men embraced martyrdom while fighting militants who had stormed a checkpoint. Three personnel were also wounded in the crossfire between paramilitary personnel and militants, sources said. The Interior Ministry confirmed the attack took place on Thursday night. The martyred men were identified as Naib Subedar Muhammad Jan, Naik Arif, Lance Naik Saeedur Rehman, Sepoy Akhunzada, Hazratullah, Mushtaq, Abdul Samad, Imran, Basir, and Mehtab. According to a statement, six...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Friday that Ukraine has twice approached Russia with peace proposals, mediated by Turkiye, only to abandon its initiatives soon after. In an interview with the Russian channel Rossiya 1 , Putin urged Kyiv to clarify its stance on peace talks. “Our Turkish partners … have approached us with what they described as initiatives from the Ukrainian side. But each time we agreed, the Ukrainians had already withdrawn their proposal. This has happened twice. Ultimately, we need clarity on their readiness and intentions,” he said. Putin said Turkish representatives had given him “Ukraine-related materials” on the sidelines of the Brics economic bloc summit in the city of Kazan, which he said required careful review and that he had not yet had the chance to examine them thoroughly. He, however, emphasised that any agreement would need to consider and respect Russia’s interests. Russia’s started its “special military operation” in Ukraine in Febru...

The attacks of October 7, 2023, saw over 1,000 people killed in Israel, while over 250 were taken hostage by Hamas. Israel was caught off guard, as was the rest of the world. Nobody saw it coming, nor did anyone see the Israeli military’s retaliatory scorched-earth campaign in the Gaza Strip. It’s been over a year since that day, during which time Gaza has borne witness to one of the bloodiest conflicts in the region in decades. Over 42,000 people have been killed in Gaza, with Israel no closer to rescuing the hostages, although the Israeli military assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in July and his successor Yahya Sinwar in October, who was the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attacks. Meanwhile, South Africa has filed a “genocide” case against Israel with the International Court of Justice, while the International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes. A Pal...