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The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has submitted its report to the Islamabad High Court in the degree controversy involving Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, with Karachi University’s detailed response attached to the record. According to the HEC report, the commission has no role in the administrative affairs of universities and the ongoing petition is entirely an internal matter of the university. It stated that universities and their authorised bodies are solely responsible for issuing degrees, and the HEC has no involvement in this process. The commission informed the court that Justice…

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ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board on Monday approved a $1.3 billion loan by granting waivers against missing a few core conditions and securing a fresh commitment from Pakistan to introduce new tax measures to offset the impact of a huge revenue shortfall. In order to win the IMF board meeting date, the Pakistani authorities had agreed to fulfil two prior actions, a guarantee to issue an order to restructure an undercapitalised bank and publish the Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment report – the latter hit on its political…

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Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb has taken the oath as a permanent judge of the Supreme Court. The oath was administered by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Yahya Afridi, and the ceremony was held at the Supreme Court. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, who is already working as an acting SC judge, was proposed to be appointed as a permanent judge at SC by the Judicial Commission on December 2. Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Sarfraz Dogar, Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, Babar Sattar, Tariq Jahangiri, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq, and Justice…

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A guard of honour ceremony was held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi to honour Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military), Hilal-e-Jurat, on his appointment as Pakistan’s first chief of defence forces. During the ceremony, contingents from the three armed forces presented the COAS and the newly appointed chief of defence forces with a formal guard of honour. Field Marshal Munir was also presented with a general salute and inspected the guard of honour, the state broadcaster reported. The event was attended by senior military…

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The Supreme Court has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 36 Secondary School Teachers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, while expressing concern that the provincial Service Tribunal may have relied on “hallucinating” AI to produce fake legal citations. The ruling, delivered by a bench composed of Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi, Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, overturned a consolidated judgment dated July 14, 2025, by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Service Tribunal (KP-ST), which had upheld the teachers’ termination. The Directorate of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) K-P had repeatedly sought to…

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