KARACHI: At least 17 people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Wednesday night when heavy rain, thunderstorms and winds gusting as high as 97 kilometers per hour slammed into Karachi, toppling walls and roofs, striking victims with lightning and leaving trees strewn across streets in Pakistan’s largest city.
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Imran Khan’s sons offered visa-free entry on identity cards to Pakistan as ex-wife pleads for family visit amid jailed ex-PM’s declining health
ISLAMABAD: The information minister said on Wednesday that the two sons of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan are welcome to visit their father without visas by using their National Identity Cards for Overseas Pakistanis, responding directly to a public appeal from Khan’s ex-wife that highlighted months-long delays and the politician’s deteriorating health.
Missile debris kills Pakistani national in Abu Dhabi, third such death in UAE
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani national was killed on Tuesday after falling debris from an intercepted ballistic missile struck a residential area in Abu Dhabi, the third such fatality involving Pakistanis in the United Arab Emirates amid escalating Iranian retaliation against US and Israeli strikes on Tehran.
Govt cancels traditional military parade for March 23 amid oil crisis triggered by Middle East conflict
ISLAMABAD: The government said on Tuesday it will forgo its annual military parade and associated ceremonial events for Pakistan Day on March 23, citing austerity measures imposed in response to a global oil crisis sparked by the ongoing war between the United States, Israel and Iran.
Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima appeals to PM Sharif to allow sons to visit jailed father
ISLAMABAFD: Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, issued a direct public appeal Monday to the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging him to intervene so that her two sons can visit their father in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
Punjab govt threatens legal action against critics of luxury Gulfstream jet purchase for chief minister
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab provincial government will pursue legal action against individuals and platforms it accuses of waging a “deliberate malicious campaign” of lies about the use of its newly acquired official aircraft, Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Sunday.
Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban claims of capturing military outpost as propaganda
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected claims by the Afghan Taliban that its forces had captured a military outpost and killed 14 soldiers, branding the assertions as fabricated propaganda designed to mislead the Afghan public.
Pakistan rebukes India over closure of Srinagar Jama Masjid on last Friday of Ramadan
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday issued a sharp rebuke of Indian authorities for keeping the gates of Srinagar’s centuries-old Jama Masjid locked, barring thousands of Muslim worshippers from prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Seven policemen martyred in IED blast as forces kill six militants in same district
LAKKI MARWAT: Terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device under a police patrol vehicle on Friday in the volatile Bettani subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven officers including a station house officer in the latest blow to security forces struggling to contain a surge in militant violence along the Afghan border.
PML-N’s Nehal Hashmi sworn in as Sindh governor after abrupt ouster of MQM-P ally
KARACHI: Nehal Hashmi, a longtime stalwart of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, took the oath of office on Friday as the new governor of Sindh, capping a rapid and unexpected appointment that has strained relations within Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition.