KARACHI: A Sindh High Court justice opened the first hearing Friday in a judicial inquiry into the death of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old businessman whose family has insisted for a month that he was murdered, even as police in a separate action filed charges against roughly 100 people accused of blocking one of the city’s main thoroughfares during a nightly vigil demanding answers in the case.
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Minister Kamal calls health system ‘rotten’ after deadly Pims fire
ISLAMABAD: The health minister told lawmakers on Friday that “no one will be spared” in the aftermath of a nursery fire that killed 14 infants at a government hospital here, as members of parliament from across the political spectrum demanded an independent accounting of how flames were able to sweep through a neonatal ward at the country’s most prominent medical facility.
Pakistan cricket board threatened Lord’s Test boycott over Imran Khan interview
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.
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.