Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has said that his party will not boycott the upcoming general election in 2024, even if it does not get its iconic symbol of bat. Talking to the journalists in Islamabad, he accused the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of attempting to undermine the PTI as a party. He said that the Peshawar High Court had ordered the ECP to issue the notification regarding the election symbol, but it was not complied with. He also said that PTI lawyers were being arrested, while those affiliated with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz were being spared. He urged the Supreme Court to play its role in resolving the problems and ensuring transparent elections. He said that urged the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa to take notice of the matter and stop the non-party based election. He said that PTI had alternative plans to contest ...

A powerful 7.5 earthquake hit central Japan on Monday, the USGS said, prompting tsunami warnings and authorities to urge people in the area to move to higher ground. “All residents must evacuate immediately to higher ground,” national broadcaster NHK said after the quake hit the Noto region in Ishikawa prefecture around 4:10pm (7:10am GMT). Hazardous tsunami waves were possible within 300 kilometres (190 miles) of the quake’s epicentre along the Japanese coast, the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. A tsunami of 1.2 metres was confirmed to have arrived in Wajima city in Ishikawa prefecture. But a much higher tsunami of 5m was expected to arrive in Noto in the same region, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The JMA said the Noto region, on the Sea of Japan side of Japan’s main island of Honshu, experienced a rapid succession of quakes, starting with a 5.7 magnitude tremor at 4:06pm local time. This ...