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…
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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…
LAHORE MIRROR — Priceless heirlooms and antiques belonging to the family of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, reportedly worth Rs20 million, were stolen from the residence of Prince Bahawal Abbas Khan Abbasi, son of Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi, in F-8/3 in Islamabad. Police registered a case under Sections 454 and 380 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) after the family discovered that the storeroom had been broken into and the valuable items removed. The stolen articles included silver and gold valuables, including a silver throne chair, silver ladder, silver bowls and statues, gold plates, Bahawalpur-crested gold plates and a large crested silver…
LAHORE MIRROR (AFP) — North Korea said it tested an intermediate-range strategic missile on Saturday that involved the use of AI, hours after Seoul said Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile. The launch took place days after Seoul’s military demanded an apology from Pyongyang for a blast that wounded three South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that it blamed on the North. Pyongyang has denied responsibility for last month’s explosion and called South Korea “despicable” on Friday, undercutting overtures by Seoul’s civilian leadership seeking a return to dialogue. Early on Saturday, “our military detected a ballistic missile launched…
LAHORE MIRROR — An Azerbaijani woman, who allegedly fell victim to a gang rape in Lahore, refused to return to her country after boarding a flight for Azerbaijan, airport sources said. According to the sources, Diana reached the airport late at night to return to Azerbaijan. She completed the check-in and immigration procedures and boarded the aircraft. However, shortly afterwards, she refused to leave and disembarked. Diana insisted that she did not want to return to Azerbaijan and asked to be sent to a third country instead. Airport sources said Diana had remained at the airport since the night, while…
LAHORE MIRROR (AFP) — The UAE’s attorney general said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel had planned a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the captain, the official UAE news agency WAM reported Saturday. The news agency quoted Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi as saying that according to the initial findings of an investigation, “the co-pilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist act” and had “attacked the captain in the cockpit with the emergency axe and tried to take control of the aircraft”. Barred from flying The co-pilot accused of attacking the…
LAHORE MIRROR (REUTERS) — Disney agreed to license a slate of movies and TV shows to Netflix, including existing “Ice Age” films as well as “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and “Will Trent” series, the companies said on Friday. The deal expands Netflix’s access to Disney-owned content as the streaming platform broadens its library through licensing agreements, including a deal with AMC Global Media in July to bring “The Walking Dead” series to its platform. The first two seasons of Disney+ original series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” will be available globally on Netflix from October 4 for three months.…
