PESHAWAR: Pakistan has recorded its sixth case of polio this year, after a seven-year-old boy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district was found to be infected, the country’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) said on Monday.
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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.
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.
Somali pirates killed five hostages, including three Pakistanis, on Honour 25
KARACHI: Somali pirates killed five crew members, including three Pakistanis, on the hijacked tanker MT Honour 25, the authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Tuesday. The announcement ended months of uncertainty for families who had been trying to find out what had happened to the sailors.
Pakistan seeks to verify reports of deaths on tanker freed from Somali pirates
KARACHI: Pakistan said on Tuesday it was trying to establish what happened aboard a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia. A rights group had released recordings in which people described as crew members reported that five sailors were killed and four wounded during an operation to free the ship.
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.
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.
Two police officers shot dead guarding polio team in Balochistan attack
QUETTA: Two police constables were shot dead on Tuesday while guarding a team of female polio workers in the restive south-western province of Balochistan, in the latest attack on officers protecting vaccinators in one of the last countries where the disease remains endemic.
Pakistan narrows gender gap by most in a decade, yet stays near last
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan climbed off the floor of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender-parity ranking this year, posting its steepest improvement in a decade even as the country remained mired near the bottom of a 145-economy field.
Pakistan Hockey Federation refuses to play in India, seeks neutral venue for Asian Champions Trophy
Pakistan has formally asked hockey’s Asian governing body to strip India of next month’s Men’s Asian Champions Trophy or relocate all of Pakistan’s matches to neutral territory, deepening the sporting fallout from the countries’ fraught relationship.