ISLAMABAD: Yaum-i-Ashura processions commenced across the country on Sunday amid tight security, police said. Yaum-i-Ashura is observed every year on Muharram 10 with solemnity to pay homage to Imam Husain — the grandson of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) — and other martyrs of Karbala. Earlier in the week, Karachi Traffic Police issued a traffic plan for Muharram 8 to 10, …
SAHIWAL: Following Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s directive , Pakpattan police on Saturday registered three FIRs in connection with the death of 20 babies at the paediatric ward of Pakpattan District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital between June 16 and 22. Two FIRs have been registered against hospital officials and lab technicians for what the CM described as “criminal negligence” during a briefing …
PESHAWAR: Four people were killed while one person was injured on Sunday as flash floods swept across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Buner, Malakand and Mansehra areas, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). At least 22 people have been killed and 11 others have been injured in KP in accidents related to rain, strong winds, flash floods and landslides since June …
ISLAMABAD: The chief justices of Islamabad, Sindh, Balochistan and Peshawar high courts are likely to take oath next week. However, formal notifications of their appointments are yet to be issued. The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on July 1 approved the appointment of Justice Sardar Mohammad Sarfraz Dogar as the chief justice (CJ) of Islamabad High Court, Justice Mohammad Junaid …
ISLAMABAD: Certain individuals were booked under separate criminal laws after they were found involved in hunting endangered barking deer on the Margalla Hills National Park, police said on Saturday. A case has been registered in response to a complaint lodged by Assistant Director Wildlife Aisha Shahzad against two identified and some unidentified persons. The police said the assistant director brought …
ISLAMABAD: PTI has denounced PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s remarks suggesting Pakistan could extradite citizens to India as a confidence-building measure (CBM), accusing him of undermining national security and appeasing a hostile neighbour. According to reports, Mr Bhutto-Zardari said Pakistan had no objection to handing over “individuals of concern” to India, provided New Delhi showed a willingness to cooperate. In a …
RAWALPINDI: A total of 65 processions, 16 of them categorised as most sensitive, eight as less sensitive and 41 as normal, will be taken out on Ashura in Rawalpindi amid tight security arrangements. The processions will be monitored by about 2,000 CCTV cameras installed under the Safe City project in the garrison city on Sunday. A central control room has …
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s Meteorological Department on Saturday issued an alert for heavy rains in the upper parts of the country, including the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, for July 6 and 7. The alert said that heavy to very heavy rainfall from Sunday to Monday may trigger flash floods in local streams of Murree, Galiyat, Mansehra, Kohistan, Abbottabad, Buner, Chitral, …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged the nation to take guidance from the life and character of Imam Hussain to overcome internal and external challenges and keep Pakistan on the path of peace, unity and progress. He said the grandson of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), along with his family and companions, sacrificed their lives for the “sake of truth, justice …
KARACHI: Rescuers on Sunday concluded their operation to recover people from the site of a five-storey building which collapsed in Karachi earlier this week, with the final death toll standing at 27. Rescue teams worked overnight on Friday to pull out more bodies from the rubble of the building situated in Lyari on Fida Husain Shaikha Road in Lea Market. …