Four miners died while another five were injured after a gas explosion at a coal mine in Balochistan’s Harnai district, state-run Radio Pakistan reported on Sunday. The army completed a rescue operation at the incident site, where miners were trapped following a gas explosion, th...
LAHORE: The third round of talks between Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the government to abolish the petroleum levy will be held on September 15 (Tuesday) following an extension request from the latter, the party said on Sunday. According to a statement via the party’s information dep...
The brother of Hina Javed, who was found dead last month, has written to the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR), requesting intervention in the investigation of her sister’s murder case, as the family alleges that the probe was compromised. Hina, a 45-year-old digital med...
In the markets of old Dubai, saffron, cumin, pistachios and almonds from Iran still fill the stalls, as if the two shores of the Gulf were not separated by the ongoing regional conflict. Last month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the suspension of trade and financial ex...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that Pakistan would continue its efforts for “defusing” regional tensions and expressed solidarity with the Gulf state in light of recent Houthi attacks. According to a statement issued b...
Donald Trump turned his focus Sunday to golf and promoting his business interests, as he wraps up a two-day visit to Ireland during which his off-the-cuff diplomacy has caused another stir. The US president caught his Irish hosts and the neighbouring UK off-guard Saturday when he...
Pakistan cricket hit a fresh low during the dismal 3-0 Test whitewash in England, even if a dazzling cameo by debutant Razaullah at least ensured a tour marred by mid-series sackings ended with a flicker of hope. Described as the worst team to tour England in the last 50 years, P...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday announced a “relief scheme” for users of motorcycles, autos and vehicles of up to 800cc to “alleviate the burden” of rising global oil prices. A statement issued by his office said the prime minister took “immediate notice of the recent ten...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Kot Shakir police in Athara Hazari tehsil of Jhang arrested on Saturday a seminary teacher for raping a minor Quran student. The complainant, a resident of Kot Langar, said in his first information report (FIR) that his 12-year-old son was a resident student in Ma...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has suspended an administrative order of a magistrate exonerating the chief executive officer of a private firm in a graft case, and allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to arrest him for interrogation. The court was informed, however, that...
KARACHI: Residents may face water supply disruption in parts of the metropolis following a power breakdown at the Dhabeji pumping station on Sunday morning, the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) said. Dhabeji pumping station is the city’s primary water intake point an...
Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from a passenger ship that sank in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency official said. An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people had been reported missing afte...
A ship was struck in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three, local Iranian authorities said, as Tehran and Washington clash over the strategic waterway. “A merchant vessel was struck around 5am this morning off the coasts of Hengam and Qeshm islands...
Brics leaders including China, Russia and India, entered a second day of talks in New Delhi on Sunday, discussing “inclusive global growth”, after reaching rare agreement calling for calm in the Middle East. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “cooperation” within the ...
KARACHI: The residents of Defence Housing Authority and Clifton may heave a sigh of relief as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation and the Frontier Works Organisation on Saturday signed an agreement to complete the laying of a dedicated pipeline from Dumlottee within 12 mon...
Muttahida chairman Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui speaks at the event.—Dawn KARACHI: Speakers at a programme called for the creation of new administrative units or provinces and constitutionally empowered local governments (LGs), arguing that Pakistan’s existing provincial structure ...
In the last decade or so, global politics began moving towards highly emotive, personality-driven territory. American scholars such as Steven Hassan, in his research on authoritarian control and cult dynamics, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in her work on ‘strongman’ politics, have describe...
VENICE: A chilling new documentary about Israel’s AI-assisted killing of civilians in Gaza by two Israeli directors won a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. NAZA, by Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, had been tipped by some critics fo...