Peshawar school owner arrested after roof collapse kills 32 children and a teacher
PESHAWAR: At least 32 children and a teacher were killed on Thursday when the roof of a privately run school collapsed onto classrooms in Peshawar, in a disaster police blamed on a weak building carrying too much weight.
Joint session of parliament votes to strip Imran Khan’s party of power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: A joint session of parliament voted on Thursday to endorse emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formally stripping jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party of control of the northwestern province.
PEMRA orders TV channels to stop live coverage of blasts and militant attacks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s media regulator has ordered television channels to stop live coverage of explosions, gunfire and militant attacks, days after the government suspended the opposition-run administration of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
World Bank flags substantial risk in Pakistan tax overhaul program
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The World Bank rated implementation of its flagship fiscal-reform loan to Pakistan as moderately satisfactory, while classifying overall risk as substantial
Pakistan ranks 106th of 122 on hunger index after years of backsliding
ISLAMABAD: Hunger in Pakistan has worsened since 2018, leaving it ranked 106th of 122 countries on the 2026 Global Hunger Index and one of just two South Asian nations to lose ground.