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A 10-year-old boy was crushed to death when he was trying to cross the railway track in Chak Jhumra on Sunday. Police teams reached the site and handed over the body to the heirs after necessary legal work. The unfortunate incident happened when a boy was trying to cross the …

ISLAMABAD, May 22): Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan has directed Deputy Inspector General (DIG) headquarters to initiate the process to fill all the vacant posts in the department to minimize shortage of staff. He passed the directions during an introductory meeting here at police lines …

  Karachi–Due to a lack of substantial rainfall across the country, the extreme weather conditions have worsened and the prevailing heatwave has strengthened its grip. At the time of writing, three Pakistani cities have recorded extreme temperatures, ranking as the joint top three hottest places on the earth today. According …

Police have raided the houses of multiple employees of the Punjab Assembly in the wee hours on Sunday and arrested Director General (DG) Parliamentary Affairs Rai Mumtaz as others successfully evaded the arrests ahead of a key session of the provincial assembly summoned by Speaker Parvez Elahi today. The police …

ISLAMABAD, May 22 :Depleting surface and ground water resource has rung alarm bells for the policy makers with country touching the scarcity bench mark due to per capita water availability dwindling six times since independence. Absence of sufficient water storages, rising temperature and rampant wastage of irrigation water was further …

BEIJING, May 22 : The first consignment of Pakistani mangoes of present season will be transported by air cargo service in Kunming, capital city of China’s South-Western Yunnan province. The shipment comprising 3-4 tons of “Sindhri” variety of mangoes is likely to arrive on May 28 as per the tentative …

BEIJING, May 22 : Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in Guangzhou, China late Saturday on his first bilateral visit at the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Landed in Guangzhou, China on my first bilateral visit. Today also marks 71st anniversary of establishment of diplomatic …

New Delhi – Thirty years after mobs demolished a historic mosque in Ayodhya, triggering a wave of sectarian bloodshed that saw thousands killed, fundamentalist Indian Hindu groups are eyeing other Muslim sites — even the world-famous Taj Mahal. Emboldened under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aided by courts and …

Prime Minister (PM) Mian Shehbaz Sharif ordered Chief Minister Punjab (CM) Hamza Shehbaz Sharif to hold an inquiry into the disruption caused by security officials after a judge and others complained of being harassed by security officials. The orders came after the Special Court (Central-I) judge Ijaz Hassan Awan complained …

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will appear before the special court hearing a money laundering case against him and his son, Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz, on Saturday . Sources privy to the development said the “sudden” decision of the prime minister, who has been skirting the hearings in the …