PESHAWAR: Security forces have killed 11 militants in separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, sources said on Saturday, days after Islamabad bombed targets inside Afghanistan and accused the Taliban government in Kabul of sponsoring terrorism.
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Lahore named world’s most polluted major city again, days after chief minister claims “less smog”
LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the most polluted major city in the world on Friday morning, as its air quality fell into the “unhealthy” category and Punjab’s government ordered emergency anti-smog operations across the city’s worst-hit districts.
Sindh extends judicial inquiry into death of Mir Raza Ali until 15 October
KARACHI: The Sindh government has extended the term of a judicial commission investigating the death of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old Karachi entrepreneur whose killing police initially treated as a possible suicide.
Punjab reschedules Basant for January and lengthens festival threefold
LAHORE: Lahore’s kite festival Basant will run for 10 days next year, a sharp extension of the revival held in February, after Punjab’s chief minister approved a new schedule on Wednesday.
Arshad Nadeem fouls three times in a row and misses Asian Games javelin medal
ISLAMABAD: Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion, was left without a medal at the Asian Games on Monday after fouling his last three throws in a rain-soaked final, in which Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage won gold with an 88.55m effort on his sixth and final attempt.
Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded
ISLAMABAD: The number of glacial lakes in Pakistan’s mountainous north that have thawed this summer has climbed from 40 to 105 in under two months, according to satellite data released by the country’s national space agency, in a finding that has sharpened warnings over the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding in communities living beneath them.
Fifteen detained in Lahore inquiry into alleged gang-rape of Azerbaijani woman
LAHORE: Police have detained 15 people, including two women, as they pursue the men accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman in Lahore, in a case that has drawn comparisons to the abduction and assault of two foreign tourists in the same neighbourhood barely two months earlier.
Pakistan says 33 India-linked militants killed in latest Balochistan offensive amid rising unrest
QUETTA: Pakistan’s military said on Friday that security forces had killed 33 militants in a series of counter-terrorism operations across Balochistan since 21 September, as the south-western province continues to experience a marked rise in terror violence.
PTI sends mixed signals over Islamabad march days before Khan supporters due -report
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was in open disarray on Thursday over whether it would proceed with a mass march on Islamabad this weekend, after one of its senior figures suggested the protest could be called off in exchange for concessions the party’s official spokesperson said were never on the table.
Power utility K-Electric’s rate battle ends in defeat
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority won a bid to keep in place a steep cut to K-Electric Ltd.’s power tariff, a decision that preserves close to 200 billion rupees in savings for the government and deals a setback to a utility already grappling with a bank-led liquidity squeeze.