LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board came close to pulling its team off the field during the second Test against England at Lord’s this week, after Sky Sports broadcast an interview with Imran Khan’s sons in which they spoke of fearing for their father’s life.
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Gilgit-Baltistan presses ahead with trophy hunt auction after a season upended by unrest
GILGIT: The mountainous northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan will put hunting permits for three markhor, the national animal of Pakistan, up for auction next month, part of a wildlife program that generates millions of dollars a year for remote Himalayan communities but that has struggled to recover from a wave of unrest tied to the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader.
After 14 newborns die in PIMS fire, questions turn to negligence and safety
ISLAMABAD: A committee appointed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif began investigating on Thursday what caused a fire to tear through a hospital nursery here, killing 14 newborns and leaving a nation searching for someone to blame.
He lived his entire life in a hospital ward – and died there, too
For two months, a baby boy lived in a hospital nursery because no one would say who he belonged to.
Grief, fury mount in Islamabad as officials probe hospital fire that killed 14 infants
ISLAMABAD: The federal minister overseeing Pakistan’s health system said on Thursday that he would submit himself to the same accountability he has promised for anyone found responsible for a fire that killed 14 newborns at a major Islamabad hospital, as grieving families, opposition politicians, and international officials pressed for answers about how the tragedy unfolded.
Fire tears through PIMS hospital newborn ward, killing 14 babies
ISLAMABAD: Fourteen infants died early Wednesday when a fire tore through the newborn nursery of Pakistan’s largest public hospital in Islamabad, an inferno that investigators say began with an exploding air conditioner and was fed by oxygen equipment keeping the youngest patients alive.
After 50 years, France closes its consulate in Karachi
KARACHI: For half a century, the French tricolour flew over a consulate that Pakistanis in this sprawling port city had come to think of as a fixture, a quiet outpost of Paris on the edge of the Arabian Sea. This week, that chapter closed.
American mountaineer Sarah Mallory Geis’s remains brought down from Broad Peak
SKARDU: The body of an American mountaineer who died in an avalanche on one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks was airlifted on Tuesday, more than three weeks after she and nine other climbers were buried in a wall of snow and ice on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan.
Officer in custody after gunfire caught on video during campus protest
ISLAMABAD: An officer has been taken into custody and is facing disciplinary proceedings after a video showing him firing a pistol into the air during a confrontation with student protesters at a university in Islamabad circulated widely on social media, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jemima Goldsmith urges Britain to intervene over Imran Khan’s treatment in prison
ISLAMABAD: Jemima Goldsmith, the British socialite and former wife of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, called on the British government on Monday to intervene in her ex-husband’s treatment, saying Pakistan is defying its own Supreme Court and that the matter has become “a human-rights emergency.”