LAHORE: Police on Thursday registered a case against five suspects on charges of kidnapping for ransom and sexually assaulting two foreign women.
LAHORE: Police on Thursday registered a case against five suspects on charges of kidnapping for ransom and sexually assaulting two foreign women.
El Niño will quickly develop into a strong event between July and September, fuelling the likelihood of extreme weather, the United Nations weather and climate agency warned on Friday.
KARACHI: The State Bank has abolished the incentives paid to banks for increasing remittances, after the amount grew to a level that came under the IMF’s radar.
• Decision taken unanimously by Senate Standing Committee on EAD• Division says it cannot directly order FIA, NAB inquiry into another ministry’s projects• Senators criticise EAD letter questioning committee’s jurisdiction
• Salman Akram Raja says critics are ‘hard of hearing’, claims party has emerged as largest social force in the country• Junaid Akbar Khan terms Balochistan ‘guarantor of country’s stability’, assails govt over law and order situation
MUZAFFARABAD: In a widely anticipated move, the PTI on Thursday announced its decision to boycott the upcoming Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) general election, stating it would instead stand by the people amid the prevailing political and social unrest.
• Six-member rope-fixing group establishes route to peak• Expedition includes climbers from China, Ukraine, Lithuania, Nepal and Pakistan• Italian team opens a new route on K7’s Southeast Face, but turns back 350 metres below the summit due to dangerous conditions
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has decided to introduce a convoy system on highways across the province to ensure the safety of cargo trucks, passenger coaches and people travelling by road.
• Defends Israel talks as ‘diplomatic war’, not betrayal• Syrian FM rules out any military action in Beirut
• Chief ministers commit to reducing unnecessary incarceration, improving infrastructure• CJP terms reforms ‘shared institutional responsibility’• Maryam says prisons should be reflective of values, effectiveness of justice system• Afridi calls for reforms to ‘start from Adiala’
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reviewed the law and order situation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and reaffirmed his commitment to utilising all available resources for the welfare and prosperity of the people of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Thursday it was closely monitoring internet traffic disruptions caused by a fault in the SEA-ME-WE 5 (SMW5) international submarine cable system, which was likely to cause intermittent degradation in service quality and connectivity.
LAHORE: A child was killed and at least five people were injured after the roof of an under-construction building collapsed in Lahore’s Baghbanpura neighbourhood on Thursday, police said.
Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a 43-year-old man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes, AFP journalists witnessed.
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court on Thursday deferred hearing on the Election Commission’s application seeking ex parte ad interim relief against a high court order directing the provisional registration of PTI as a political party.