KARACHI: The number of people found to be infected with HIV in connection with a children’s hospital in Karachi has climbed to 120, provincial officials said Tuesday, as a public health investigation that began nine months ago continues to widen across working-class neighbourhoods in the city’s industrial quarter.
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Flash floods rip through northern Pakistan, sweeping away homes and highway
By Staff Reporter DIAMER DISTRICT: Flash floods tore through six locations in a rugged district of northern Pakistan early on Monday, destroying homes, wiping out
Pakistan in talks with Netflix, weighing its own streaming platform, minister says
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government is negotiating with Netflix and other global streaming services to secure greater visibility for the country’s films and television dramas, while separately developing a state-backed digital platform to carry Pakistani content abroad, a senior minister said, reviving a long-running debate over why a domestic entertainment industry with a vast international following has landed so few original commissions from the world’s dominant streaming companies.
Gilgit-Baltistan moves to create glacier protection agency as flood warnings mount
GILGIT: The government of Gilgit-Baltistan announced on Saturday that it will establish a new authority dedicated to protecting the region’s glaciers, a step officials described as essential to confronting the accelerating effects of climate change in one of the most glaciated landscapes outside the polar regions.
Media regulator ends Geo News suspension, but warns network faces license revocation for any repeat violation
ISLAMABAD: Geo News, one of Pakistan’s most-watched television networks, resumed broadcasting shortly after midnight Sunday, ending a 15-day suspension that the country’s media regulator said was necessary after the channel aired religiously sensitive imagery during a special Muharram program last month.
Pakistan braces for weekend of flooding, landslides as monsoon rains intensify
ISLAMABAD: The federal government ordered disaster management authorities into a state of heightened readiness on Friday, as meteorologists forecast a weekend of heavy rain, windstorms and thunderstorms likely to trigger flash flooding, landslides and dangerous river surges across the country’s northern and mountainous regions.
Bahria Town official, retired colonel convicted in money laundering case
ISLAMABAD: A retired army colonel who serves as vice chief executive of Bahria Town was convicted on Thursday for a second time in less than a year, this time for illegally moving money abroad to finance projects for the sprawling real estate developer, as investigators continue to unravel a financial network built around one of the country’s most powerful property empires.
Pakistan Navy rescues 20 sailors from sinking cargo ship
KARACHI: All 20 crew members aboard a cargo dhow taking on water east of Ormara were pulled to safety this week in a joint operation by the Pakistan Navy and the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, according to the military’s media office.
Monsoon floods strand 200 travelers in northern Pakistan; all rescued unharmed
ISLAMABAD: Emergency crews pulled more than 200 stranded travelers to safety late Tuesday after flash flooding tore through a mountain highway in northwestern Pakistan, the latest and largest rescue in a monsoon season that has already killed 18 people nationwide.
In new global liveability rankings, Karachi remains mired near the bottom – and Gulf cities tumble too
KARACHI: Copenhagen has once again been named the world’s most livable city, but for residents of Karachi, Pakistan’s sprawling port metropolis, the latest edition of a closely watched global index brought little to celebrate: The city remained lodged near the very bottom of the rankings, one of only four cities on Earth judged less livable than nearly all others surveyed.