IDF: Earlier Sunday, IDF troops identified armed Hamas Nukhba militants in southern Gaza who operated to advance imminent attacks against IDF troops.

At least 7 people shot in Paterson, New Jersey-reports.

Chinas consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.2% year on year in April, official data showed on Monday.

China said it successfully launched a Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft atop a Long March-7 Y11 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's island province of Hainan on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: Human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, have submitted additional documents to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, bringing these on record before the hearing on Tuesday, May 12, on their plea, which seeks to set aside the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) order denying interim relief in the controversial social media posts case.

In December 2025, Imaan Mazari and her husband moved the Supreme Court to set aside the IHC’s decision that denied the interim relief in the controversial social media post case against the couple. The petition argued that the high court had “erroneously and illegally refused” to exercise the discretion to grant ad-interim relief to the petitioners to stay the criminal trial, as recording of evidence before the trial court in their absence was not only a violation of Section 353 CrPC, but also their due process and fair trial rights under Article 10A of the Constitution.

The additional documents, submitted by their counsel, Faisal Siddiqi, on Monday, consist of the charge sheets of different dates against the petitioners, their statements before the trial court and the orders issued by the court.

The petitioners pleaded before the Supreme Court to allow bringing these documents on record in the interest of justice since they were “essential and relevant for adjudication of the present case”.

They explained in the application that the said documents were not available at the time of filing of the appeals, since the paper books were not prepared by the office of the IHC; the trial record was obtained after filing the appeals.

A three-judge Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui, and headed by Justice Shahid Waheed, will commence hearing on the appeals on Tuesday (May 12).

Earlier on April 30, Imaan Mazari and her husband had also moved appeals in the Supreme Court under Article 185(3) of the Constitution against the IHC’s February 19, 2026, order, through which the high court had admitted the appeal against the trial court’s January 24 decision of handing down a 17-year sentence.

While admitting the appeals against the trial court’s order, the IHC had issued notices to the respondents on the application for the suspension of sentence; however, it had not suspended the sentence.

The petition contended that the appeals be accepted and the sentence awarded to the petitioners through the impugned trial court’s judgement be suspended till the disposal of the criminal appeal pending before the IHC.

On January 24, a trial court had sentenced Imaan and Hadi to a total of 17 years in prison on multiple charges in the case.

The lawyer duo were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment under Section 10 (cyber terrorism), five years’ imprisonment under Section 9 (glorification of an offence) and two years’ imprisonment under Section 26-A (false and fake information) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA).

The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday dismissed a set of appeals instituted by Greentree Holdings Limited (GTH) against a June order by the Sindh High Court (SHC), which had held that GTH shares were the property of private equity firm The Resource Group Pakistan (TRGP).

The dispute revolves around a challenge to a June 20, 2025 SHC judgement, in which the SHC had allowed an application of former TRG CEO Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti to be filed under company laws.

In its order on June 20, 2025, the SHC had ruled that shares held by GTH in TRGP (the respondent) were the property of TRGP, and would be deemed to have been purchased by the latter from its shareholders.

The court had also ordered TGRP’s Board of Directors to issue notice for an extraordinary general meeting of the company immediately to elect directors, adding that the new board of directors would decide whether to retain or cancel these treasury shares after the elections.

A three-judge SC bench, headed by Justice Naeem Akhter Afghan alongside Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, rejected three appeals against the SHC’s order on Monday, and directed that the appellants would jointly bear the legal costs of respondent No. 1 (Chishti).

“We intend to pursue a defamation case against the group, which was moved against the social media campaign against the respondent,” Advocate Muhammad Shehzad Shaukat told Dawn while appearing on behalf of Chishti, adding that in this case, the cost ran into the millions.

The SC, in its short order, granted leave to appeal in “C.P.L.A. No.2543/2025 titled ‘Greentree Holdings Limited, Hamilton HM11, Bermuda v. Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, etc.’; C.P.L.A. No.871-K/2025 titled ‘The Resource Group International Limited (TRGI) v. Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, etc.’; and C.P.L.A. No.872-K/2025 titled ‘The Resource Group Pakistan Limited (TRGP) v. Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, etc.’”.

“The petitions are converted into appeals, which are all dismissed. The appellants shall jointly and severally bear the respondent No.1’s costs in the said appeals,” said the short order, authored by Justice Aurangzeb and announced in the open court on Monday.

In the same case, case files had been reported stolen in 2025. GTH, which had filed the petition before the SC last June, was informed by the court office on July 14 to immediately file its petition again, along with three paper books in each case, to avoid any inconvenience to the court after the case files were stolen.

The reason cited by the court office suggested that while transferring the case to the Principal Seat of the SC in Islamabad through a courier service, the vehicle carrying the case files had been robbed and the subject petitions stolen.

This incident was also mentioned by Justice Afghan during a hearing on August 26, where the court was told that the files of the case were not stolen, but rather a robbery was committed.

On June 25, 2025, a two-judge SC bench consisting of Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan and Justice Aamer Farooq, while granting status quo, had ordered the issuance of notices, with a direction to the parties to file concise statements.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday extended the countrywide austerity drive till June 13.

The Middle East war, which began with US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28, has given rise to a global oil crisis. In order to deal with the situation, the government had announced unprecedented austerity measures on March 9.

A notification of the Cabinet Division, available with Dawn, said: “The prime minister, on consideration of the recommendations of the committee for monitoring and implementation of fuel conservation and additional austerity measures, has been pleased to extend the applicability of the following additional austerity measures up till 13th June, 2026 with immediate effect.”

The measures extended included 50 per cent reduction in fuel allowance for official vehicles, with the exemption of operational vehicles such as ambulances and public buses.

Other steps included the move to ground 60pc of official vehicles and a complete ban on foreign visits by ministers and government officials, excluding those as specified the last time, which were deemed essential for the country’s interests.

“Other additional austerity and fuel conservation measures, as notified from time to time vide this Division’s notifications of even number, shall continue to remain in force over the periods specified in the respective notifications,” the notification read.

“Measures in the case of which no period or end date has been specified, shall remain applicable till further orders,” it added.

Among previously announced austerity measures, the working week for all government offices was reduced to four days — Monday to Thursday.

However, the additional holiday was not availed by banks. It did not apply to the agriculture and industrial sectors, or essential services such as hospitals and ambulance services.

Under the measures, the salary of parliamentarians was to be cut by 25pc, while employees of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and government-supervised institutions were to see their salaries cut by 5pc-30pc.

Expenses of government departments were reduced by 20pc, along with a ban on purchasing vehicles, furniture, air conditioners and other items for government departments.

PM Shehbaz had tasked the premier had tasked the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to carry out a third-party audit of the implementation of the austerity measures.

On April 30, the premier had also decided to extend fuel subsidies for motorcyclists, and public and goods transport by one month.

The subsidies were part of the targeted relief measures announced for bikers, farmers and transporters to cushion the impact of global oil price shocks amid the US-Israel war on Iran.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Monday decried decisions taken behind closed doors, saying that the provincial government would oppose those decisions that went against peace in the province and the people’s interests.

He made the remarks during a visit to Bannu, after 15 police personnel were martyred and three sustained injuries after a suicide attack on the Fateh Khel police post.

According to a statement issued by the CM House, Afridi met the families of the martyred police personnel and also offered Fateha.

The statement said that he also visited the hospital to inquire about the health of the injured personnel and directed officials to provide them with the best possible healthcare facilities.

The statement quoted Afridi as saying that the KP police had shown bravery and courage against terrorism. He said that the people of the province had to stand up for their rights, otherwise the “imposed circumstances” would continue to prevail.

“We have been continuously saying that terrorists are again rearing their heads, but decisions behind closed doors have been imposed on us for the last 78 years,” he lamented, adding that the imposed policies had “pushed the province into a quagmire of unrest”.

“We have made immense sacrifices [in the fight] against terrorism. Further unrest is unacceptable,” he asserted.

“The provincial government and police will fight against terrorism together,” Afridi said, noting that the government would oppose every decision against peace in the province and the people’s interests.

He further noted that the sacrifices of the martyred officials would not be in vain, as establishing peace in the province was the government’s top priority.

A former Polish justice minister sought in his homeland for alleged abuse of power says he has travelled from Hungary to the US, prompting prosecutors in Poland to say on Monday that they are investigating whether he was assisted in evading liability. Zbigniew Ziobro was a key figure in the government led by the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party that ran Poland between 2015 and 2023. That administration established political control over key judicial institutions by stacking higher...

China’s consumer prices ticked up in April as the cost of crude oil rose globally due to the Iran war, official data showed on Monday.

Helped by the surging oil costs, factory gate prices also continued to show signs of recovery, rising for a second straight month after being stuck in negative territory since October 2022.

However, analysts warn deflation is still a threat for the world’s second-largest economy as prices in other sectors continue to fall and overcapacity remains a headache.

China’s consumer price index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, last month rose 1.2 percent year-on-year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

The jump was due to “changes in international crude oil prices and increased demand for holiday travel”, according to Dong Lijuan, chief NBS statistician.

Domestic gas prices rose 19.3 percent on-year, Dong said, impacted by international commodity price fluctuations.

A five-day holiday at the beginning of May also typically sees more travel and spending in the weeks preceding it.

However, last month’s CPI was still well below the government’s two percent target for the year.

The April producer price index (PPI), which measures wholesale inflation, increased by 2.8 percent on-year — up from 0.5 percent in March.

It beat a Bloomberg forecast of 1.8 percent and marked the quickest pace since July 2022, when the PPI rose by 4.2 percent on-year.

The gauge slipped into negative territory that October and did not reverse until March.

“The rise in international crude oil prices drove up prices in domestic petroleum-related sectors,” the NBS’ Dong said in a statement, listing fuel processing and manufacturing of raw materials.

But analysts warn shocks caused by oil blockages in the Middle East are temporary.

“The fallout from the Iran War pushed up inflation again in April but price pressures remain narrow in scope and aren’t likely to build into a wider reflationary impulse”, Capital Economics said in a note.

“(With) overcapacity in most sectors unresolved and domestic demand growth still sluggish, the ingredients for a sustained reflationary impulse still appear to be missing.”

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A Malaysia Airlines flight burst a tyre on Monday after aborting take-off at Hong Kong International Airport due to “technical issues,” but no injuries were reported.

The Airport Authority (AA) said the tyre burst occurred at around 9.18am on Monday.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH79, bound for Kuala Lumpur, aborted taking off from the airport’s South Runway due to “technical issues,” the AA said.

“During deceleration, a tyre burst, and the aircraft veered off the runway and came to a stop on the taxiway.”

Following established procedures, the authority said, it arranged for a tow truck to remove the aircraft from the taxiway. “No injuries were reported,” it added.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that the plane “discontinued take-off following a tyre-related issue.”

“The aircraft was safely brought to a stop in accordance with standard operating procedures. All passengers and crew are safe,” the company told HKFP in an emailed reply.

Photos circulating on social media show the burst tyre and several fire engines standing by next to the aircraft. One photo posted to Facebook shows an airport personnel member checking the burst tyre.

MH79 was originally scheduled to depart at 8.45am and arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 12.45pm. Flight-tracking site Flightradar24 shows that MH79 did not take off and returned to the ramp at the airport.

Malaysia Airlines said it “deeply regrets” the incident and that it was working on rebooking passengers on alternative flights or carriers.

Following the incident, the airport’s South Runway was closed for a routine inspection, the AA said. “Meanwhile, other flights used the Centre Runway for take-off and airport operations were largely normal.”

The South Runway reopened shortly after 10am on Monday, the authority added.