ISLAMABAD: Fourteen under-trial prisoners escaped from a police van on Monday after overpowering their guards while being transported between jails near Rawalpindi, authorities said, triggering a manhunt across the garrison city and the federal capital.
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Pakistan braces for first major monsoon spell as forecasters warn of flash floods, urban flooding
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s weather authorities warned on Monday that the first organised monsoon spell of the season would sweep across the country from July 1 to 6, bringing heavy rain, flash flooding and the risk of urban inundation to large swathes of the nation still recovering from successive years of devastating floods.
Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat over Karachi Rangers attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Afghan chargé d’affaires on Monday and issued a formal protest over a weekend attack on a paramilitary facility in Karachi, hours after the government confirmed it had launched ground and air strikes against militant targets across the Afghan border, killing 29 fighters.
Imran Khan’s lawyers granted two-week delay to argue graft case appeal
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday granted a two-week adjournment to lawyers for jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to begin arguments in their appeal against convictions in a corruption case, after dismissing contempt petitions the couple had filed against jail authorities.
GB chief minister’s oath postponed as Bilawal heads to Iran for Khamenei funeral
GILGIT: The swearing-in of the newly elected Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister has been postponed after the head of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party left for Iran to attend funeral proceedings for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the party said on Sunday.
Pakistan orders mass arrest of undocumented Afghans from July 10, demands daily deportation tallies
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has ordered the immediate arrest of any Afghan national found in the country without a valid visa from July 10, in the most explicit enforcement directive yet issued under a deportation campaign that has already displaced more than a million people in the past year alone.
PEMRA suspends Geo News for 15 days after part of Muharram broadcast deemed offensive to Muslim viewers
Pakistan’s broadcast regulator on Saturday suspended the licence of Geo News for 15 days, taking the country’s most widely watched Urdu-language television channel off the air after it broadcast footage during a Muharram transmission that authorities said was liable to hurt the religious sentiments of viewers.
Cloudburst devastates Diamer district as Pakistan warns of glacial lake catastrophe
GILGIT: A cloudburst tore through Thore Valley in Pakistan’s northern Diamer district on Saturday, destroying homes, severing roads and leaving dozens of families homeless, as a concurrent heatwave accelerated glacial melt across Gilgit-Baltistan and federal authorities warned of a sharply elevated risk of glacial lake outburst floods through early July.
Series of quakes shakes Pakistan; Hindu Kush tremor felt across provinces
ISLAMABAD: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake centred in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region shook Pakistan’s capital and large swathes of the country’s north on Saturday evening, authorities said, capping a day of seismic activity that had already left three people injured in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
GLOF threat looms over Pakistan’s north as heatwave accelerates glacier melt, authorities order evacuations
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s disaster management authority on Saturday warned of an acute risk of glacial lake outburst floods sweeping through the country’s mountainous north into the first week of July, directing provincial administrations to ready evacuation sites, place rescue teams on standby and restrict civilian movement near glaciers as an intense heatwave shows little sign of relenting.