Category: Pakistan

MOHMAND: The first child protection court in the merged tribal districts will be virtually inaugurated by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth in Ghalanai area here today (Saturday). Khyber Pakhtunkhwa already has three of the six such courts functioning in the country. They have been established in Peshawar, Mardan and Abbottabad under the […]

KARACHI: Police on Friday killed an unarmed citizen and wounded another on I.I Chundrigar Road as they suspected them to be muggers. The Mithadar police said that policemen of Madadgar-15 fired at two motorcyclists near Techno City killing 48-year-old Mohammad Aslam and wounding Waqar Mohammad, 26. Noman, a friend of wounded Waqar, later told media […]

ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Friday put the accused in same sex marriage case on exit control list (ECL) and directed the police to arrest and produce her before the court on Aug 17. LHC Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz heard the same sex marriage case. On the direction of the court, […]

At least nine people died in separate incidents in Karachi on Friday as the fourth spell of monsoon rains continued to lash parts of Sindh for the second straight day. Seven of the deceased lost their lives due to electrocution, while two minor boys died from drowning while swimming in accumulated rainwater, according to officials […]

A man was killed and another injured on Friday when police personnel opened fire at them on I.I. Chundrigar Road over a “misunderstanding”, assuming the men to be robbers. The incident prompted higher authorities to take notice and the three policemen involved in the incident were subsequently detained. According to Mithadar police, 48-year-old Muhammad Aslam […]

RAWALPINDI: The Aviation Division has announced that the domestic flight operation, already under way from some of the airports for some time, will be resorted from all airports in the country from August 6 midnight. A spokesman for the Aviation Division’s senior joint secretary, Abdul Sattar Khokhar, said the government had earlier allowed all airports, […]

RAWALPINDI: Police confirmed on Thursday that they registered a complaint against a group of men accused of filming a teenage girl on a road in Rawalpindi after stripping off her clothes, posting the video clip online, and allegedly gang-raping her. Authorities in Rawalpindi said a first information report (FIR) had been registered against “intoxicated young […]

KARACHI: Work on Shanghai Electric’s Thar Coal Block-1 Project, a priority implementation project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is expected to speed up following the arrival of a batch of 500 Chinese engineers and managers. The Chinese personnel arrived on a special chartered flight that took off from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on Tuesday […]

KARACHI: The torrential rainstorm that lashed the metropolis throughout Thursday left at least one person dead, wiped out power from numerous localities, and flooded multiple thoroughfares. According to rescue sources, a man died of electrocution while working inside a house near Johar Morr in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar area. The heavy rains blanketed the city in darkness […]

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar announced on Thursday that restrictions on the hospitality and recreational sectors, put in place nearly five months ago to curb the spread of the coronavirus, would be lifted from August 10 (Monday). “Restaurants and cafes, outdoor and indoor, will be allowed to open from Monday, […]