KARACHI: Police arrested a woman described as one of the city’s most-wanted drug suppliers early on Tuesday, seizing a pistol, cocaine valued at millions of rupees and other narcotics from her possession after a joint midnight operation in the Garden area, authorities said.
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Cambridge faces fresh leak allegations after Pakistani students say latest AS-level Math exam matched paper circulating online
KARACHI: Students sitting for an AS-level mathematics examination administered by Cambridge International Education on Tuesday reported that the paper they received was identical to a fully solved version that had appeared on social media only a day earlier, the latest in a series of leaks that have disrupted Cambridge’s testing cycle in Pakistan and prompted a high-level government intervention.
Blast kills 7, including 2 police officers, in market explosion in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
LAKKI MARWAT: At least seven people, including two traffic police officers, were killed and 23 others wounded Tuesday when a powerful explosion tore through a busy market square in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said.
Pakistan to vaccinate 19 million children against polio in nationwide drive after new cases
ISLAMABAD: The health authorities will begin a week-long door-to-door polio vaccination campaign from Sunday, targeting nearly 19 million children across 79 districts, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest push to eradicate a disease that remains endemic only in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan.
Pakistan extends fuel-saving austerity measures to mid-June as oil crisis from Middle East war persists
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday ordered an extension of Pakistan’s stringent nationwide austerity program until June 13, prolonging a series of fuel-conservation and spending cuts imposed in March to shield the import-dependent economy from the fallout of soaring global oil prices.
Pakistan cuts Gwadar Port fees to lure transit traffic as Hormuz tensions divert ships
ISLAMABAD: Minister for maritime affairs announced reductions in tariffs at Gwadar Port on Monday, trimming fees for container vessels and offering a month of free storage in a bid to capture more global transit and transshipment business amid disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
Karachi police hunt suspects after thieves steal 25 goats worth Rs1.9 million ahead of Eid al-Adha
KARACHI: Police in this sprawling port city are searching for three or four men who stole 25 goats valued at more than Rs1.9 million from an empty plot in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighborhood, the latest in a string of thefts targeting animals bought for sacrifice during Eid al-Adha.
Pakistan issues glacial flood alerts across northern mountains as rains loom; heat wave grips south
ISLAMABAD: Authorities issued urgent alerts for glacial lake outburst floods in the rugged northern regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, where an incoming weather system is forecast to bring heavy rain to vulnerable mountain valleys and heighten the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding.
15 police officers killed in suicide bombing at northwestern Bannu checkpost
BANNU: Militants rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpost in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province late on Saturday, triggering a powerful blast that killed 15 officers and touched off a fierce gunfight, authorities said on Sunday.
Military chief warns of ‘far-reaching and painful’ consequences for any future aggression by India
RAWALPINDI: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, the chief of defence forces and chief of army staff, warned on Sunday that any future “misadventure” against Pakistan would produce “extremely far-reaching and painful” consequences for the aggressor, delivering the message at a high-profile military ceremony marking the first anniversary of the country’s victory in last year’s brief but intense conflict with India.