Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Security measures have been put in place at the Pakistan Institute of Medial Sciences (Pims) to protect the four-year-old girl who faced an attempt on her life after being sexually assaulted in Bhara Kahu a few days ago. The girl has been kept at the Children Hospital under observation since Tuesday. Pims spokesman Dr […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday inaugurated the first housing project for the general public. The project was launched under the PTI government’s much ambitious programme called Naya Pakistan Housing Project (NPHP) on a piece of land in the Phul­garan area where Bahria Town was already executing its housing scheme. “The land for the […]

The death toll from a train collision in Sadiqabad rose to 23 on Friday after several people succumbed to their injuries overnight, officials said. The incident took place on Thursday in Sadiqabad — a subdistrict of Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab— when a passenger train coming from Lahore rammed into a goods train that had stopped at […]

TIMERGARA: Chief of the banned Tehreek Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) Mau­lana Sufi Muhammad, who spearheaded a violent movement for enforcement of Sha­riah in Malakand division in the 90s and later led thousands of youths into battle against US forces in Afghanistan, passed away on Thursday morning in Peshawar. He was 86. His body was shifted to […]

LAHORE: Many cities in the country on Thursday received rain and the Met department warned of a week-long spell of rains, heavy to very heavy at places, from Friday (today) that may cause urban flooding and landsliding in the affected areas. In its latest forecast, the Met department says moderate monsoon currents from the Arabian […]

ISLAMABAD: After a sudden rise in reported cases, the new leadership of the polio programme has reached a conclusion that data manipulation was done over the past few years as performance of the entire programme revolved around the data or numbers. Moreover, in the past all the attention was given to controlling the disease and […]

LAHORE: PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz met her father Nawaz Sharif in the Kot Lakhpat jail on Thursday and briefed him on the purported video clips of Islamabad accountability court judge Arshad Malik in which he claimed that he had been “pressurised and blackmailed” to convict him (Sharif) in the Al-Azizia reference. She told her father that Mr […]

At least 11 people were killed and 46 were injured on Thursday when a bus carrying passengers overturned near the Bahtar Interchange on the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway. Police said that the accident occurred in the early hours while it was raining. SP Pothohar Syed Ali held the driver of the bus responsible for the accident. He […]

At least 16 people were killed while 84 others were injured when a passenger train, the Akbar Express, collided with a freight train at the Walhar Railway Station in Sadiqabad on Thursday morning, officials said. Rahim Yar Khan Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jamil Ahmed Jamil said all passengers onboard the train, which was headed to Quetta, […]

MIRAMSHAH: One soldier was martyred and five others were injured in two bomb explosions in North Wazir­istan tribal district on Wednesday. The first incident occurred near Kha­r­qamar check-post in Datakhel tehsil. Officials said that a bomb disp­osal squad was searching the area when a remote-controlled device went off. Four security personnel were injured. Javed, one […]