Dense fog reduced visibility to near zero in parts of Karachi early on Sunday, disrupting road traffic in areas including Super Highway, Scheme 33, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Clifton. The conditions caused difficulties for motorists during early morning hours, particularly on major arteries and high-speed corridors. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the city recorded a minimum […]
Broad-based initiatives are urgently needed to improve environmental sustainability across the globe, especially in agricultural economies like Pakistan, which is a source of food security for several countries. In recent years, the pace and intensity of climate change in Pakistan have increased dramatically. Repeated cycles of devastating floods, caused by unprecedented heavy rainstorms and even […]
I didn’t set out to build anything. In the late 2000s, in Houston, I was doing what I was employed for, pediatric emergency medicine: long shifts, clinical and academic/research competence, the steady rhythm of a life that made sense on paper. And yet, something was off. Not broken. Not dramatic. Just… hollow in places I […]
Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ritualised. A couplet can pass from a mushaira to a wedding stage, from a television studio to a WhatsApp status, without losing its cultural charge. English […]
Wake-Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is the third film in the Knives Out franchise and is not some algorithm-friendly murder mystery that’s just popped up on your Netflix homepage. It’s the return of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, a detective who has been solving murders since long before the genre became bingeable content. While […]
Massive crowds gathered in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday for the funeral of a slain student leader, held under tight security after two days of protests and violence. Tens of thousands of people joined the funeral procession to pay their respects to Sharif Osman Hadi, a key figure in last year’s pro-democracy uprising who was set […]
A Syria monitor said Saturday that five Islamic State jihadist group members had been killed in US strikes overnight as Jordan confirmed it participated in the raids, after a deadly attack on American troops last weekend. US forces said they had struck more than 70 IS targets in what President Donald Trump described as “very […]
Russia is trying to sever Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, following days of ramped-up airstrikes on ports and energy facilities in the Odesa region and a critical route to the Moldova border. Russia has unleashed an almost continuous drone and missile campaign against a region where ports key […]
A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight. The space company owned by American multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos launched its New Shepard suborbital mission at 8:15 am (1415 GMT) from its site in Texas. Michaela Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics […]
Although sacked judge Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri retains the right to appeal before the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) against the Islamabad High Court (IHC) order that removed him from office, the prevailing circumstances indicate that his prospects of securing substantive relief in the near future are slim. Since the passage of the 26th Constitutional […]