KARACHI: A cargo plane carrying five crew members disappeared over the Arabian Sea late on Tuesday as it neared the end of an overnight flight from the United Arab Emirates to Pakistan, setting off a sea-and-air search by the military that stretched into Wednesday morning without any confirmed sign of the aircraft or those aboard.
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Deadly clash near Quetta follows villagers’ warnings about militant threat
QUETTA: Gunmen stormed a remote village in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday evening, touching off a firefight with security forces that left at least four militants dead and nine other people wounded, provincial officials said Monday, warning that the death toll could still rise with fighting underway and several villagers unaccounted for.
Anti-graft body seizes tallest tower in escalating probe of property tycoon Malik Riaz
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau took physical control of the Bahria Icon Tower, the country’s tallest building, on Monday, marking the most significant asset seizure yet in a widening money-laundering investigation targeting real estate developer Malik Riaz Hussain.
Air Force officer Tariq dies shielding stranger on Islamabad avenue
ISLAMABAD: Group Captain Asim Tariq had just left his house near Shaheen Chowk on Sunday, driving through the capital, when something on the road ahead made him turn around.
11-year-old boy to face trial in Karachi’s Gul Plaza fire that killed 72
KARACHI: An 11-year-old boy has been charged with negligently starting a fire that killed 72 people and destroyed more than 1,100 shops at a crowded commercial plaza here, according to a charge sheet filed in court Saturday — a document that also accuses building managers of locking emergency exits and never calling for help as the blaze consumed the structure.
Suspected drone strike kills three sisters in northwest Pakistan
WANA: Three sisters were killed and four other members of their family were wounded before dawn on Sunday when explosives believed to have been dropped by a quadcopter drone struck their home in a remote district of northwestern Pakistan, according to local officials and hospital sources, the latest in a monthslong string of unexplained aerial attacks that has left residents of the country’s tribal belt increasingly afraid to sleep in their own houses.
Pakistan recalls Babar Azam as test captain for West Indies, England tours
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket selectors reinstated Babar Azam as Test captain on Sunday, naming him to lead the team on upcoming tours of the West Indies and England as the board seeks to arrest a decline in results under his predecessor.
Britain, Pakistan in talks over deporting convicted child rapist Shabir Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: British officials have opened talks with the government of Pakistan over deporting Shabir Ahmed, the convicted ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, who walked out of prison this week after serving roughly half of a 19-year sentence for the rape and sexual exploitation of children, according to the BBC.
Pakistan moves to ban substandard syringes following string of child HIV outbreaks
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday ordered a nationwide ban on the manufacture and use of substandard syringes, acting a day after parents of children infected with HIV at a Karachi hospital took their case to court seeking criminal charges against those responsible.
Lahore court remands four suspects in sexual assault, kidnap case involving two foreign women
LAHORE: A Lahore court on Friday ordered five days of physical remand for four men arrested over the alleged kidnapping and rape of two foreign tourists, a case that has drawn attention after police said the women were held for ransom and sexually assaulted over several days in the eastern city of Lahore.