PM Shehbaz Sharif (right) interacts with Balochistan CM Sarfraz Bugti upon reaching Quetta in this undated image. — PTV/File Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit Quetta on Thursday to express solidarity with the people and review law and order situation in light of the deadly Jaffar Express hijacking incident. The PM’s visit follows the culmination of security…
PTI leader Taimur Khan Jhagra and former PTI member Sher Afzal Marwat. — ITDP website/Facebook@Sher Afzal Khan Marwat/File ISLAMABAD: Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister, has served a defamation notice to ex-party member Sher Afzal Marwat, seeking Rs1 billion in damages over false allegations. The legal notice,…
Passengers who were rescued from a train after it was attacked by terrorists, arrive at the Railway Station in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, March 12, 2025. — Reuters CHANGA MANGA: Amjad Yaseen, the driver of Jaffar Express, which was attacked by terrorists while travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, has been confirmed safe. Yaseen, who is a…
TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad City Police Officer Sahibzada Bilal Umar took notice of the release of two arrested drug peddlers by Samanabad police, prompting a raid on the police station by Iqbal Town division SP Abid Zafar. During the raid, SP Zafar recovered narcotics from the cupboard of the SHO Imtiaz Ahmad. A search of…
ISLAMABAD: The constitutional deadline for the appointment of new chief election commissioner and two Election Commission of Pakistan members expired on Wednesday, with no action from the government in sight. The five-year terms of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, Sindh Member Nisar Durrani and Balochistan Member Shah Muhammad Jatoi ended on Jan 26,…
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federal governments have agreed on a framework to resolve the development funds related issues of the province and its merged tribal districts, said adviser to the chief minister on finance Muzzammil Aslam on Wednesday. Addressing a news conference here, Mr Aslam said the chief minister raised the issues related to…
Sara Batool, a 10-year-old, found brutally murdered in a bunk bed at the family home in Surrey on 10 August 2023. — Surrey police/File LONDON: The father and stepmother convicted of murdering their British-Pakistani daughter after years of torture will have their appeals heard in a UK court on Thursday. Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool,…
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday remanded a man in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a child pornography case. The US consulate general, through its special agent Christopher Peterson, had filed a complaint against the suspect, accusing him of extorting minors in the United States. Later, the FIA Cyber Crime Reporting…
KARACHI: Some greedy retailers have pushed up the retail price of sugar to as high as Rs180 per kg from Rs170 by attributing the hike to rising wholesale prices. A retailer said the wholesale rate for sugar had risen to Rs168 per kilogram from Rs153 per kg two weeks ago. The average national price of…
VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations’ drugs watchdog said on Wednesday. In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from $75 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy…