لاہور سمیت پنجاب بھر میں حالیہ موسلا دھار بارشوں اور تیز آندھی کے باعث مختلف حادثات میں 7 بچوں سمیت 12 افراد جاں بحق اور 39 افراد زخمی ہو گئے ہیں۔ صوبائی ڈیزاسٹر مینجمنٹ اتھارٹی (پی ڈی ایم اے) کی جانب سے جاری رپورٹ کے مطابق 25 سے 27 جون کے دوران صوبے بھر میں […]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) bore the brunt of the intensifying monsoon system, as relentless rains, flash floods and landslides triggered a series of deadly incidents across the province over the past 48 hours. The powerful monsoon system has been wreaking havoc across Pakistan over the past 48 hours, leaving at least 42 people dead and dozens […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Awam Pakistan Party (APP) leader Miftah Ismail on Saturday criticised government’s economic policies, saying that if the premier had reduced the budget deficit, the interest rate would have fallen into single digits. Addressing a news conference at Karachi Press Club alongside former MNA Salahuddin, Nasiruddin and others, Miftah said the new federal budget had wasted […]
The FIA (Multan Zone) has arrested two individuals involved in human trafficking and visa fraud as part of its ongoing crackdown on illegal migration networks. The arrests were made during major operations in different parts of the city. According to an FIA spokesperson, the arrested suspects have been identified as Muhammad Muzammil and Sher Khan. […]
The Punjab Home Department on Saturday categorically denied a report published in UK online newspaper The Independent about the “inhumane” treatment being meted out to PTI Patron-in-Chief Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi during their incarceration, stating that both husband and wife were “receiving full legal entitlements”. While speaking to the British newspaper, Zulfiqar […]
Signs of a potential thaw in the country’s tense political landscape emerged on Saturday as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended an offer for a dialogue to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). In a brief but significant exchange during a session of the National Assembly, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan responded with a hopeful one-word reply: […]