ISLAMABAD: A French climber died after an avalanche struck a three-member international team attempting to scale K-6, a 7,282-metre peak in Pakistan’s remote northern Karakoram range, a tour operator said on Wednesday, the latest fatality to hit the country’s high-altitude climbing season.
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Pakistan to anchor fuel prices to import costs after industry backlash; foreign capital at risk
ISLAMABAD: The petroleum minister pledged on Tuesday to anchor fuel prices to actual import costs after oil company executives warned that seven formula overhauls in three months had erased a full year’s industry profits in a single pricing cycle and were pushing foreign investors toward the exit.
Pakistan jails rights activist Mahrang Baloch for life over paramilitary’s death at 2024 protest
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sentenced prominent Baloch rights activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment after convicting her of inciting a mob that killed a paramilitary soldier during a protest in the southwestern port city of Gwadar nearly two years ago, in a case her lawyers condemned as a travesty of justice.
NDMA issues nationwide flood emergency as glaciers and monsoon storms converge in 24-hour threat
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national disaster authority has placed the entire country on emergency alert, warning that a convergent weather system will bring thunderstorms, flash flooding, destructive high winds and — in the country’s glaciated north — the sudden, potentially catastrophic release of glacial lakes, all within the next 12 to 24 hours.
Four PTI leaders jailed for decade over May 9 riots as Qureshi walks free
LAHORE: Four senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been sentenced to ten years in prison each by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, while former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was acquitted on Saturday in the latest verdict to emerge from the country’s sweeping judicial reckoning over the May 9, 2023 riots.
Nine dead as torrential rains and flash floods batter Pakistan’s northwest
ISLAMABAD: At least nine people have been killed and seven others injured across Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after days of heavy rain brought walls and rooftops crashing down on residents, disaster management authorities said on Friday, as officials issued urgent warnings of glacial lake outbursts and flash floods across the region’s mountain districts.
Supreme Court summons jail officials over Imran Khan’s blocked access to lawyers
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Pakistan moved on Thursday to reassert judicial authority over conditions inside Adiala jail, ordering the prison’s superintendent, Punjab’s home secretary and both the Islamabad and Punjab advocate generals to respond within three weeks to a petition challenging what lawyers describe as the systematic denial of Imran Khan’s right to meet with his legal team.
Pakistan maps 130 dangerous glacial lakes as El Niño threatens to deepen climate crisis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s space agency has identified 130 glacial lakes capable of unleashing catastrophic floods on downstream communities, as the country simultaneously faces warnings of a weakened monsoon season, intensifying heatwaves and drought driven by the onset of El Niño.
Four independent winners’ move to IPP disrupts Bhutto’s arithmetic in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit: Four independent candidates who won seats in Gilgit-Baltistan’s general elections have joined the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, handing the fledgling political outfit its first-ever foothold in the regional assembly and potentially complicating what had appeared to be a straightforward path to government for the Pakistan Peoples Party.
PCB overhauls player contracts in bid to revive test fortunes
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board unveiled a sweeping overhaul of its central contract system on Monday, restructuring the financial framework that governs the country’s professional cricketers into five distinct categories while granting dedicated Test specialists the rare freedom to play first-class cricket abroad — a concession that represents, in the board’s own framing, a deliberate wager on the long-term health of the longest format.