ISLAMABAD: The health authorities have vaccinated 15.97 million children in the first three days of a week-long national anti-polio campaign, the National Emergency Operation Center said Thursday, even as gunmen killed two police officers assigned to protect vaccination teams on the drive’s opening day.
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Aga Khan V, on first visit as Ismaili spiritual leader, meets Zardari and reaffirms AKDN’s development pledge in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan V, the 50th hereditary spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community, used his first visit to Pakistan since assuming the imamate last year to reaffirm the Aga Khan Development Network’s longstanding commitment to humanitarian and development work in the country.
Pakistan and China hail ‘iron-clad’ partnership as they mark 75 years of diplomatic ties
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told the Senate on Wednesday that Islamabad and Beijing share a “converging vision” on regional and global issues, as a high-level Chinese delegation sat in the visitors’ gallery to observe commemorations of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Sindh police chief fears suspect in major cocaine case may be targeted to derail widening probe
KARACHI: Sindh province’s top police official said on Tuesday that investigators fear someone may try to harm a woman suspected of running a sophisticated cocaine distribution network, as authorities widen a sprawling probe that has already drawn in federal agencies, traced millions of rupees in bank transactions and raised questions about possible protection from influential figures.
Islamabad court sentences man to death in killing of teenage TikTok star Sana Yousaf
ISLAMABAD: A sessions court in the capital sentenced 23-year-old Umar Hayat to death on Tuesday for the murder of 17-year-old TikTok influencer Sana Yousaf, who was shot dead in her Islamabad home nearly a year ago in a case that drew widespread condemnation and renewed debate about violence against women in the country.
Karachi court grants police more time to question alleged drug queenpin amid her claims of torture and coercion
KARACHI: A Karachi court on Monday granted police four more days to question Anmol, the alleged drug supplier better known as Pinky, in a murder investigation, even as the suspect told a magistrate she was being pressured to implicate prominent figures and had endured repeated mistreatment in custody.
Polio campaign opens in Pakistan with deadly attacks on police escorts in restive tribal district
BAJAUR: Gunmen killed two police constables assigned to protect polio vaccination teams in Pakistan’s northwest on Monday, the opening day of a national immunization campaign aimed at stamping out the country’s persistent polio cases, officials said.
Pakistan lifts nationwide business-hour restrictions, exempting shops and restaurants from early closures until May 31
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday scrapped early closing times for shops, markets, shopping malls and restaurants across the country, granting a temporary exemption from energy-conservation rules imposed six weeks ago in response to a sharp rise in fuel prices triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Israel detains Pakistani national Saad Edhi, international activists after boarding Gaza-bound aid flotilla near Cyprus
ISLAMABAD: Israeli forces seized at least 10 vessels from a multinational humanitarian flotilla attempting to reach Gaza on Monday and detained dozens of international activists, including Saad Edhi, the son of Pakistan’s most prominent social worker and the grandson of the late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Police secure custody of drug queenpin in narcotics and murder cases amid claims of torture and ex-husband plot
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday ordered alleged narcotics kingpin Anmol, better known as Pinky, remanded into police custody until May 22 in a major case filed under the Sindh Control of Narcotic Substances Act, capping a day of court appearances in which authorities sought to question her in more than a dozen separate criminal matters.