WASHINGTON: The US Air Force opened an investigation on Friday after an intruder managed to board an official plane at an air force base near Washington, despite heightened security measures after the Jan 6 Capitol Hill attack. An “adult man” managed to enter Andrews Air Force base — which hosts visiting dignitaries in Washington and is where official US planes, …

  As many as 150 people were feared dead in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and crashed into a dam early on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream. “The actual number has not been confirmed yet,” but 100 to 150 people were feared dead, Om Prakash, chief secretary of Uttarakhand state where the incident occurred, …

Tens of thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday, and thousands more assembled across the country to protest against the military junta’s coup and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week. The protests, which took place despite an internet blackout and restrictions on phone lines, were the biggest demonstrations in the country since the …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that a unified political message to India from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would be critical to help rescind Indian unilateral actions, end human rights abuses and seek peaceful settlement of Kashmir dispute. The foreign minister, in a video message at the ambassadorial meeting of the OIC Contact Group on …

ISLAMABAD: The term of the only functional local government, which happens to be in the federal capital, is set to expire on Feb 14. This will bring to an end the brief stint of around six weeks in office of Pir Adil Shah Gilani, who had been notified as returned candidate in the elections for the office of the mayor …

KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday moved Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime accused in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and his four associates from jail to a newly-built facility inside the prison, sources privy to the development said. The move came in line with the Supreme Court’s orders last week that authorities must move Sheikh from …

• Public places, parks already shrinking, Dr Hoodbhoy says • Vacant govt land, other high altitude areas ignored ISLAMABAD: With the Ministry of Science and Technology all set to establish an observatory and space museum in Shakarparian Hills, several voices of dissent have emerged over the site earmarked for the facility. A number of experts believe that a public park …

RAWALPINDI: After 11 months, the number of Covid-19 patients in the district fell to single digit as only seven people contracted the deadly virus on Saturday. In another development, inoculation of frontline workers of Holy Family Hospital (HFH) has started with 32 doctors, nurses and paramedical staff getting vaccinated. According to a senior doctor, 1,590 doctors, nurses and paramedical staff …

LAHORE: Federal Information Minister Shibli Faraz has categorically denied that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government has struck a ‘backdoor deal’ with former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, claiming that any such deal is “against the basic philosophy of the party”. The minister was replying to questions of media persons at a Sundas Foundation event here on …

• Says constitution can’t be amended through ordinance • Maryam, Fazl discuss Senate elections, long march ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Saturday rejected the Elections (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 and termed it an attempt by the government to “pressurise” the Supreme Court to decide the presidential reference seeking open Senate vote in its favour. The country’s two major political parties — the Pakistan Muslim …