A fatwa issued by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, president of Wifaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia Pakistan and Darul Uloom Karachi, stated that buying goods with cryptocurrency is not permissible under Islamic law (Shariah), The News reported.
According to the fatwa, based on the findings and opinions of experts consulted so far, cryptocurrency does not qualify as maal (property or wealth) in Sharia but is merely a record of notional numbers in an account.
Islamabad is all set to host the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) 9th Ministerial Conference on Women on July 12–13, with delegations from member states arriving in the federal capital.
The conference, being held under the theme “Socio-Economic and Political Empowerment of Women in the OIC Countries: Challenges and Way Forward,” will bring together the ministers responsible for women and family affairs, senior government officials, representatives of OIC institutions, international organisations and development partners to deliberate on advancing the socio-economic and political empowerment of women across the OIC Member States.
The results of the admission test conducted by NED University of Engineering and Technology have exposed serious weaknesses in the academic standards of Sindh’s public examination boards, particularly the Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) and several boards in the interior of the province, while students from Cambridge, foreign examination systems and other independent boards recorded significantly higher success rates.
Speaking to The News, NED Vice Chancellor Dr Tufail said a large number of students who had secured more than 70% to 80% marks in the first year of intermediate examinations failed to qualify in the university’s admission test, raising serious questions about the credibility of marks awarded by some examination boards.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday arrived in Doha for a daylong visit to offer condolences to Qatar’s leadership over the death of former Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
The premier is accompanied by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar.
A recent amendment to the National Accountability Bureau law has transferred the final appellate jurisdiction in NAB cases from the Supreme Court to the newly established Federal Constitutional Court, a development with far-reaching implications for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, The News reported.
The National Accountability Bureau (Amendment) Act, 2026 inserts a new Section 32A, which identifies the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) as the forum for second appeals against High Court judgments in NAB cases.
According to the sources, the PTI leadership knows that not only the most consequential £190 million (Al-Qadir Trust) case but also in any other case which falls under the NAB domain will finally go to the Constitutional Court.
The said section reads as: “32A Second Appeal. Any person convicted or the Prosecutor General Accountability, if so directed by the NAB chairman, aggrieved by the decision made by the High Court under section 32, may prefer a second appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court within a period of thirty days.”
Pakistan assumed the chairmanship of the 9th OIC Ministerial Conference on Women in Islamabad, with Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights Azam Nazeer Tarar saying the country would work to turn shared commitments on women’s empowerment into practical action across the Islamic world.
Assuming the chairmanship, Tarar said Pakistan regarded the role as a responsibility to help improve the lives of women in OIC member states, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday.