Israel’s attack on the Evin Prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday. At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel struck Tehran’s most notorious jail for political prisoners, in a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear […]
A ward councillor and his two-year-old son lost their lives after their car fell in a canal in Husri area of Hyderabad on Saturday. Some local people dived in the waterway to save lives of Mohsin Rajput and his son Zulqarnain Rajput but the high water flows stymied their attempt. Later, a crane of Rescue […]
A young Tunisian woman has found herself stranded in the metropolis after her brief marriage to a local man — whom she met through Facebook — ended in divorce just months after it was solemnised. According to police sources and official records, 19-year-old Sanda Ayari, a resident of Tunisia, arrived in Karachi on November 28 […]
The water level in sea has risen with the onset of monsoon in Karachi, flooding recreational spots including Hawksbay and other coastal areas. Seawater crossed over the huts and reached the service roads, prompting authorities to restrict public access to beaches. Citizens have been strictly advised to stay away from the shoreline due to dangerously […]
A 17-year-old student, Syed Ali Raza Shah, died of Naegleria fowleri, marking the fourth death due to the brain-eating amoeba, in Sindh, this year. The teenager, a resident of North Karachi, tested positive for the infection on June 27 and, according to the Sindh Health Department, was admitted to a hospital on June 25 experiencing […]
The Sindh government’s decision to assign dual charge of two major educational boards in the metropolitan city to one officer has resulted in administrative chaos, leaving the academic future of hundreds of students hanging in the balance. The chairman of Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) and Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), Ghulam Hussain […]
Iran held a state funeral service Saturday for around 60 people, including its military commanders, killed in its war with Israel, after Tehran’s top diplomat condemned Donald Trump’s comments on supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “unacceptable”. The proceedings started at 8:00 am local time (0430 GMT) in the capital Tehran as government offices and […]
Thirteen servicemen were martyred and three civilians – two children and a woman – injured in a suicide attack targeting a military convoy in North Waziristan tribal district on Saturday as the army chief vowed to relentlessly pursue terrorists and unmask the “true perpetrator of terrorism in the region”. “A vehicle-borne suicide bomber attempted to […]
Pakistan and China have signed $3.7 billion equivalent commercial loan deals this week, pulling the foreign exchange reserves back to the double-digits from the critically low level of $8.9 billion in last week. The deals would also help meet a commitment with the International Monetary Fund to close the fiscal year 2024-25 with $14 billion […]
Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have challenged the Supreme Court’s order endorsing the transfer of three judges to the IHC. They have also requested the apex court to restrain the three transferred judges — including Acting Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar — from performing any judicial or administrative functions as IHC judges. The judges, including […]