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World |2023-06-04 18:45:01
Scores detained in Hong Kong on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary

Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, including four arrested for “seditious” intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown...
Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators, leaving cities like Taipei, London, New York and...
Archive |2023-06-04 10:55:04
Pakistan face UAE in Asian rugby Div I

LAHORE: Pakistan’s rugby team will play two matches against the UAE in the Asia Rugby Men Division I 2023 in Lahore on July 4 and 8...
Pakistan Rugby Union (PRU) Salman Sheikh secretary on Saturday said the winners would qualify for next year’s Asia Rugby Championship
Archive |2023-06-04 08:35:13
Hina Rabbani Khar to embark on four-state tour tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar will depart on a week-long trip to four European countries on Monday, said the Foreign Office...
The visits to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium will last till June 13
Archive |2023-06-04 10:25:00
JI, PPP continue to trade barbs as battle for Karachi mayor intensifies

KARACHI: With less than two weeks left in the Karachi mayoral election, the war of words between two leading contesting parties for the key municipal office intensified on Saturday when the Jamaat-i-Islami having a majority in terms of numbers after allying with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf warned the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party against imposing a ‘jiyala mayor’ on Karachiites by use of ‘undemocratic’ means...
The ruling party, on the...
Archive |2023-06-04 08:45:13
Balochistan CM grants SED status to Gwadar

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has approved a summary to grant the status of Special Economic District (SED) to Gwadar for the city’s development and promotion of port-related activities...
An official handout issued on Saturday said the initiative would encourage exemptions on taxes for industrial activities
World |2023-06-04 11:05:01
Families, rescuers search for victims of India’s worst train crash in decades

Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause...
At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha
Archive |2023-06-04 10:35:03
PHC CJ asks police not to register bogus cases

SWAT: The Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Musarrat Hilali on Saturday directed the police to avoid lodging bogus cases in their pursuit to get promotions, warning if such practice was not discontinued the district police officer concerned as well as the provincial police chief would be held responsible...
The chief justice also called upon the lawyers’ community to avoid unnecessary adjournment of cases, especially that of undertrials
Archive |2023-06-04 10:25:02
Keenjhar Lake to have world-class tourist resort, says minister

KARACHI: The provincial government on Saturday decided to build a world-class tourist resort at Keenjhar Lake...
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the steering committee on tourism chaired by Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh
Archive |2023-06-04 10:05:04
‘Too much pain’: the carnage of India’s train crash

BALASORE: When India’s worst train accident in more than 20 years happened just outside his home, Hiranmay Rath said it felt “like the sky was falling on us or the earth was cracking open”...
What followed was an unimaginable nightmare of corpses, body parts and suffering
Pakistan |2023-06-04 12:25:00
Punjab police to challenge court order to discharge Yasmin Rashid in Jinnah House attack case

The Punjab police decided on Sunday to approach the high court against a Lahore anti-terrorism court’s order to discharge PTI leader Yasmin Rashid in a case pertaining to vandalism at the Lahore Corps Commander’s Residence — also called Jinnah House — on May 9...
The PTI chief’s arrest at the Islamabad High Court last month by the paramilitary Rangers in a corruption case had sparked countrywide protests, during which several private and...
Archive |2023-06-04 08:15:02
PM invites Turkish firms to invest in Pakistan

PRIME MINISTER Shehbaz Sharif greets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after his inauguration ceremony in Ankara, on Saturday...
—Courtesy Foreign Office ANKARA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday invited Turkish investors and businessmen to expand their investment in various areas of Pakistan
Archive |2023-06-04 10:05:00
Shafay Hussain advises Parvez Elahi to form his own party

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Punjab Secretary General Shafay Hussain has advised the embattled Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi to form his own party after quitting the PTI as there was no room for the former chief minister in the PML-Q...
Flanked by former Punjab governor Chaudhry Sarwar, Mr Hussain was speaking to media persons outside the Jinnah House, that was attacked and torched during May 9 protests
Archive |2023-06-04 09:55:05
Hong Kong arrests four for ‘seditious’ acts

HONG KONG: Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for “seditious” acts and “disorderly conduct” on Saturday, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown...
Around the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay on Saturday, reporters witnessed police bundling several performance artists — some of whom appeared to be doing nothing — into police vans
Archive |2023-06-04 10:15:00
Karachi zoo’s Madhubala again tests positive for potentially fatal blood parasites

Zoo Director Kanwar Ayub says two elephants at Safari Park are healthy...
—White Star/file KARACHI: Despite getting treatment for potentially fatal blood parasites a few weeks ago, zoo elephant Madhubala has again tested positive for the same germs, it emerged on Saturday
Archive |2023-06-04 08:45:11
Nadra rolls out iris biometric verification

ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) deploys the Iris recognition system at Nadra centres for identity verification and effectively addressing the duplicate identity issue...
The new biometric method, which was successfully piloted at the Nadra headquarters, has now been rolled out in Nadra mega centres at Blue Area, Islamabad, PECO Road, Lahore and DHA, Karachi