PM Khan urges world to hold India accountable for Kashmir rights abuses
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on the international community to hold India accountable for its human rights abuses in the Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Taking to…
Lightning kills at least 107 in India monsoon
At least 107 people died from lightning strikes in northern and eastern India Thursday, officials said, during the early stages of the annual monsoon season.
Some 83 people were killed in…
Pakistan ‘disappointed’ with US report on terrorism
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday voiced disappointment at US State Department's report on terrorism for 2019 describing it self-contradictory and selective in its characterization of…
Severe COVID-19 can damage the brain, preliminary study finds
A preliminary study of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 has found the disease can damage the brain, causing complications such as stroke, inflammation, psychosis and dementia-like…
Pakistan pilot licence irregularities are ‘serious lapse’ – IATA
Irregularities found in pilot licences at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) represent a “serious lapse” in safety controls, global airlines body IATA said on Thursday after the carrier…
Imran Khan calls Osama bin Laden a ‘martyr’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has called the 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden a ‘shaheed’ (martyr) while speaking in the country’s Parliament.
Imran can be heard as…
PM’s attitude has been one of a puppet: Bilawal
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari challenged prime minister Imran Khan to have a debate on his policies either in the House or if he wants, then any of the…
JPP, HRCP call on government to criminalise torture
Lahore: Rafiullah alias Amir, who was beaten and paraded naked in Peshawar two days ago, is not the first victim of police brutality. Unfortunately, this is yet another glimpse of the…
Seven more Lahore areas go under lockdown
Authorities in Lahore imposed smart lockdown in another seven city areas at 12:00 midnight in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The areas area: Defence Housing Authority (DHA),…
Google tightens privacy settings for new users
Google has begun auto-deleting new users' search data and location history on a rolling 18-month basis, CEO Sundar Pichai announced, as the tech giant moves to tighten privacy settings.…
ACF dogs murdered brutally in safe zone
Recently, 2020 has been a series of one horrible thing after another, and this recent incident has been incredibly horrifying and saddening.
Recently, ACF (Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation)…
Pakistan records another 148 deaths, 4044 cases
ISLAMABAD: At least 148 people have died in Pakistan from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, officials said.
It brings the nationwide fatalities from the Covid-19 to 3, 903,…
Europe basks in hot weather as experts fear virus risk
Recently released from coronavirus lockdown, Europeans thronged shady parks on Wednesday as temperatures soared on the second day of an early summer heat wave that experts fear will lead to…
Pilot of crashed PIA plane was overconfident, says minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Wednesday said that pilot of the ill-fated aircraft and Air Traffic Controller (ATC) had not followed the set landing procedure…
Pakistan ‘disappointed’ over non-designation of four Indian nationals in…
ISLAMABAD; Pakistan said that it had proposed the designation of four Indian nationals in 2019 under the United Nations 1267 Sanctions List, namely Venumadhav Dongara, Ajoy Mistry, Gobinda…