ISLAMABAD: The prediction by a Dutch research organisation of a powerful tremor that may hit Pakistan soon has not only taken social media by storm, but even authorities seem to be taking it seriously...
But even as the scientific community insisted that it was not possible to predict earthquakes this way, Iranian media reports suggest that the prediction is being taken seriously across the border as well
PESHAWAR: The federal government has decided about the re-verification of mobile phone SIM cards issued across the country...
The exercise will start from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including its tribal districts on the Pak-Afghan border, official sources told Dawn
• ECP says parity required between different constituencies of a district, not a province • Claims 10pc limit exceeded in 64 constituencies only • PTI fears ‘indefinite’ delay in polls, requests CJP to interveneISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday justified the wide variation in the population of various constituencies in the preliminary delimitation scheme, saying parity only had to be maintained between...
Former prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Haider Panjutha, claimed on Tuesday that the PTI chief was moved to a lower class cell at the Adiala Jail last night and feared the ex-premier’s life was in danger...
Imran was shifted to Attock jail on August 5, 2023, after a court sentenced him to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case for concealing details of gifts he received as the prime minister of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Power sector circular debt continues to grow despite all the repeated tariff increases on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis as the government takes a strategic move towards billing in the consumer tariffs capacity charges payable to power producers...
This came to light when the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday notified a flat Rs3
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have detained 61 foreigners for their illegal stay in Islamabad, the police said on Monday...
The arrests were made during combing and searching operations
Twelve infants died in one day at a hospital in the Indian state of Maharashtra, sparking a political storm on Tuesday with opposition politicians accusing the regional government and hospital authorities of negligence...
The infants died on Sunday and were among 24 deaths recorded that day at the Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital in the Nanded district, some 600km (373 miles) from India’s financial capital Mumbai, hospital officials...
RAWALPINDI: A Qatar-based airline’s inaugural flight landed at the Peshawar’s Bacha Khan International Airport early on Monday...
The first flight of SalamAir from Muscat to Peshawar touched down at the airport at 3
• ECP says parity required between different constituencies of a district, not a province • Claims 10pc limit exceeded in 64 constituencies only • PTI fears ‘indefinite’ delay in polls, requests CJP to interveneISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday justified the wide variation in the population of various constituencies in the preliminary delimitation scheme, saying parity only had to be maintained between...
KARACHI: With a special focus on Karachi, which has a large population of unvaccinated children and several ‘super high-risk’ union committees (UCs), health authorities launched a major polio immunisation campaign across the province, targeting 10...
3 million children in 30 districts
Outdated technology incompatible with hundreds of modern camerasTwo ‘scanners’ go missingAuthority faces shortage of technical staff as over 50 seats vacantISLAMABAD: The Safe City project does not support more than 800 modern closed-circuit television cameras installed across the capital over the past couple of years, as the technology developed to make the project operational in 2014 has reportedly become obsolete, insiders told Dawn... ...
JAKARTA: An endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest and hairiest of the five extant rhino species, was born in Indonesia last week in a conservation area, the government said on Monday...
Weighing about 27 kilograms (59
LAHORE: An additional advocate general told the Lahore High Court on Monday that the Punjab caretaker government had no plans to form a judicial commission on the Jaranwala incident in which churches and homes of Christian community were torched and ransacked...
Ghulam Sarwar Nahang, the law officer, stated that the government had constituted various joint investigation teams (JITs) to hold an inquiry into the incident
MEXICO CITY: A church roof collapsed during Sunday Mass in a northern Mexican city killing at least nine people and injuring 40, authorities said, as rescuers worked into the night, desperately looking for another 30 people believed to be trapped under the rubble...
Working under floodlights, military personnel supported emergency services using rescue dogs and earth moving equipment to identify and dig out survivors from the ruins of...
ISFAHAN: Al Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave the dressing room due to a statue of assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani being placed at the entrance to the pitch...
The game was postponed by officials at the Naghsh-i Jahan Stadium in Isfahan, where around 60,000 fans had turned out to see Sepahan take on an Al Ittihad starting line-up that was...