LAHORE MIRROR ( REUTERS) –Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have secured effective control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen’s Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani told Reuters on Monday, though fighting continues with Houthi forces in the area. The government forces advanced rapidly along the coast with heavy Saudi air support to seize key positions in the Dhubab area on the narrowest point of the strait, a vital oil route whose seizure by the Iran-backed Houthis last month sent shockwaves through energy markets. However, while Eryani said the military had seized Dhubab airstrip, located just inland from the strait, and cut off remaining…
Author: Faisal Waqas
LAHORE MIRROR — Police have arrested Jawad Ali, husband of Additional Deputy Commissioner (Headquarters) Rawalpindi Maliha Sehr, on allegations of assaulting his wife and sent him to jail on judicial remand. A case was registered against Jawad at the Women Police Station, Rawalpindi, on the complaint of Rawalpindi ADC Maliha Sehr, who alleged that her husband had subjected her to physical violence. Police arrested the accused and produced him before the court. The court subsequently sent Jawad Ali to jail on 14-day judicial remand. Further investigation into the case is under way.
LAHORE MIRROR (REUTERS) — Daniil Medvedev, a Russian tennis player, was disqualified from his China Open semi-final clash with Novak Djokovic after hitting a rebounding ball into the crowd, striking a spectator in the eye. World number five Medvedev was trailing 7-5 5-3 on Monday and had lost a point when he hit the ball coming off the wall. The spectator, who was sitting in the first row to witness the tennis match, clutched his left eye and appeared to be in pain as he walked out of the gallery, assisted by stadium staff. “I was shocked, to be honest……
When the common man is burned by a disputed electricity bill, who exactly is he supposed to fight? There is a strange rule in Pakistan: The powerful can challenge the system. The common man has to negotiate with it. Give an ordinary citizen a bill that suddenly jumps to double, triple or four times his normal consumption, and watch what happens. He does not simply complain. He enters the maze. First the meter. Then the reader. Then the office. Then the queue. Then the in-charge. Then another officer. Then another visit. And somewhere between the counter and the complaint, the…
LAHORE MIRROR — Four injured Pakistani crew members and the bodies of three others killed in a pirate attack in Somalia have been brought back to Pakistan, with the injured shifted to hospitals and the deceased handed over to their families. Two of the injured were taken to private hospitals in Karachi in Rescue 1122 ambulances after arriving at Karachi airport, while the other two are being sent to Islamabad and Lahore for treatment. Sindh Governor Nihal Hashmi, provincial ministers Nasir Hussain Shah and Saeed Ghani, MQM leaders Farooq Sattar and Waseem Akhtar, Jamaat-e-Islami MPA Muhammad Farooq, Director General of…
LAHORE MIRROR — Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said negotiations between the government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were held in good faith, but the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister attempted to sabotage the process. Addressing a news conference in Lahore today, he said the opposition stepped back from its commitment after a draft agreement had been prepared, while the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister attempted to make changes to the final draft. Mohsin Naqvi said the government wants the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to demonstrate seriousness in dealing with terrorism. The Minister said President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif were…
LAHORE MIRROR (REUTERS) — Renault Group will invest more than €10 billion ($11 billion) in France over the next five years in electric vehicles and more affordable cars, Chief Executive François Provost said on Saturday. “Over the last five years, we invested €13 billion in France to transform entirely our industrial footprint to bet on electric, and over the five coming years, if the social and political context allows it, we will re-invest more than €10 billion to continue pushing on electric and on making cars more affordable”, Provost said in an interview on France Inter radio. Electric cars reached…
LAHORE MIRROR (REUTERS) — Zinedine Zidane’s perfect start to life as France manager came to an end when his side were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy in their Nations League meeting at the Stade de France on Friday, where the hosts went down to 10 men in the closing minutes. France had won 1-0 away to both Turkey and Belgium in Zidane’s first two games, but after Michael Olise put the French ahead 10 minutes after the break, Alessandro Bastoni levelled for Italy. “I’m very disappointed for the players because we deserved better,” Zidane told TF1. “But I’m…
PARIS: Exiled Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev takes on Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine in “Minotaur”, a drama about conscription and moral compromise released nearly five years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion. The film, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is an entry for the 2027 Oscar for best international film, is released as debate persists over Russia’s ability to sustain troop numbers in a conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead or wounded. One scene shows Russian conscripts boarding a bus for the front, with a father saying goodbye to his…
LAHORE MIRROR (AFP) — Yemen’s government forces said Sunday they had struck Houthi targets around the country, deepening the conflict ravaging one of the world’s poorest nations and the wider region. The armed forces launched strikes against the Houthis in the capital Sanaa, the northwestern governorate of Saada — one of the group’s strongholds — and Taiz in the southwest, military spokesman Colonel Majid al-Nuzaili said. Yemen was plunged back into civil war in July after years of calm, pitting the Iran-backed Houthis, who control most of northwest Yemen including Sanaa. The government, based in the city of Aden, controls…
