KARACHI: A woman has been killed and 94 people injured, among them 17 children, after celebratory gunfire swept across Karachi as Pakistan marked its 79th Independence Day on Friday, in the latest instance of a practice that has claimed lives in the city year after year despite repeated warnings from the authorities.
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Norwegian foreign minister to make first Pakistan visit in a decade amid push for closer trade ties
ISLAMABAD: Norway’s foreign minister will arrive in Pakistan on Thursday for a two-day visit that officials in Islamabad say marks the first trip by a Norwegian foreign minister to the country in ten years, as the two nations look to deepen cooperation on trade, climate and education.
IBA graduate’s exhumation set for today after Sindh restores original medical board amid backlash
KARACHI: After a day of confusion, accusation and last-minute reversals, the Sindh government on Friday evening backed down and reinstated the original eight-member medical board assigned to exhume the body of Mir Raza Ali, the young businessman whose death last month has become one of Karachi’s most closely watched cases. The exhumation, abandoned on Friday morning amid furious objections from Ali’s family, is now due to go ahead this morning.
Court orders exhumation of Mir Raza’s body for second autopsy
KARACHI: At 9am on Friday, workers will open the grave of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old business graduate whose death has split Karachi’s police force against itself.
Press freedom groups condemn Pakistan’s new travel curbs on foreign media
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s leading press freedom bodies have accused the government of tightening its grip on independent journalism, after new rules were introduced requiring foreign media personnel to obtain official permission before travelling outside the country’s three largest cities to report the news.
Pakistan tightens grip on foreign press with new travel permit rules
ISLAMABAD: Foreign journalists working in Pakistan will be required to obtain official permission before travelling outside the country’s three largest cities to carry out reporting work, under sweeping new regulations issued by the government.
Pakistan escapes new US visa bond scheme requiring up to $20,000 deposit
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has not been included on a list of 50 countries whose citizens may now be required to pay a financial bond of up to $20,000 before they can obtain a US visitor visa, under a scheme that the Trump administration has just converted from a temporary pilot into permanent policy.
Ten more killed in Pakistan floods as authorities warn of fresh deluge
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s monsoon death toll has climbed to 136 after 10 more people were killed in rain-related incidents over the past 24 hours, as flash floods swept away three schoolgirls walking home from school and authorities warned of further heavy rainfall in the days ahead.
Body of Nirmal Purja, who redefined the impossible, recovered from Broad Peak
GILGIT: The body of Nirmal Purja, the Nepali-British mountaineer who rose to global fame for his record-breaking ascent of the world’s 14 highest peaks, was recovered from Pakistan’s Broad Peak on Sunday, three days after an avalanche swept away his entire ten-member expedition team.
Mountaineering icon Nirmal Purja dies in Broad Peak avalanche along with nine other expedition members
GILGIT: Record-setting Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has died after an avalanche struck an expedition on Pakistan’s Broad Peak, his expedition company confirmed on Saturday, in a disaster that also killed one of Oman’s most accomplished climbers.