Category: Pakistan

If you’ve been to Clifton beach in Karachi, you know it’s not the cleanest place around. People litter, waste washes up on the shore and there’s even a discharge of untreated sewage into the sea from a drain near a restaurant. Shaniera Akram has taken to social media to declare the beach in a state […]

A 19-year-old girl, who was allegedly forced to convert from Sikhism to Islam, was returned to her family after negotiations between a high-level government delegation and a 30-member committee of the Sikh community came to an end after at least five days, provincial Governor Chaudhry Sarwar announced on Tuesday. In a tweet from his official account, Sarwar said that […]

PESHAWAR: The government is outsourcing six health facilities in tribal districts to non-governmental organisations under the public-private partnership programme, according to sources. “A proposal has been submitted to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Foundation, which is likely to float tenders after completion of the necessary formalities and invite NGOs with expertise in healthcare provision under the public-private […]

As part of the government’s push to highlight the suffering of the Kashmiri people — who have been enduring a strict lockdown in occupied Kashmir since the Indian government took away their special autonomy last month — Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday called his Iranian, Turkish and Bangladeshi counterparts to discuss the situation […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday assured the Sikh community that his government will make all efforts to facilitate pilgrims who visit Kartarpur and Nankana Sahib, as well as other Sikh holy sites in different cities of Pakistan. “This is not a favour, this was our duty,” he said. The premier was addressing the first […]

A murder case was registered against three police officials on Monday for allegedly torturing to death Salahuddin Ayubi, a robbery suspect who was arrested after his video of breaking open an ATM machine, making faces and sticking his tongue out at the CCTV camera had gone viral. The case was registered on a complaint of […]

MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has urged the opposition to take part in the activities planned by the government to express solidarity with the people of India-held Kashmir. “The opposition that did not record its protest [against Indian atrocities in the held valley] on last Friday should do so this Friday [during the weekly […]

Pakistan Meteorological Department (Met) Director Sardar Sarfaraz on Monday said that the monsoon season in the country is expected to continue till September 30. The Met department official told reporters that the rainfall system in the Arabian Sea and in Indian Gujarat had caused the sea breeze to stop in Karachi, and that still and […]

VEHARI: Police got a six-year-old boy freed from a seminary in Mitro Town of Mailsi tehsil on Sunday where he was found chained. On a tip-off, Mitro police raided seminary Hassan Bin Sabit in Mitro Town and found six-year-old Farooq chained there. They freed him and arrested the seminary in-charge, Shaukat Ali, and the father […]

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday announced it has apprehended a resident of Karak for his alleged links with Afghan and Indian secret agencies. FIA Deputy Director Anti Human Smuggling Imran Shahid held a press conference in Peshawar to share details of the development. The FIA officer said that the suspected ‘agent’, Umar Dawood […]