DERA ISMAIL KHAN/LOWER DIR: A would-be suicide bomber was killed in an intelligence-based operation on Dera-Tank Road, official sources said on Wednesday. They said the security forces and police launched a joint operation after receiving information about the presence of a would-be suicide bomber in the area. The sources said the alleged bomber was aged between 20 and 25 years. …

• PM wants legislation to resolve missing persons’ issue • Enforcement of laws to check sexual violence ordered • Minister says overseas Pakistanis to vote in next elections ISLAMABAD: The cabinet on Wednesday gave a relief of Rs21 billion to the federal secretariat employees by approving a 25 per cent increase in their salaries, urging provinces to end wage disparity …

PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) here on Wednesday announced seat adjustment in the province for the upcoming Senate polls. BAP has four lawmakers in the provincial assembly. They joined the party after winning elections from tribal districts as independent candidates. Addressing a press conference in the civil secretariat, provincial government spokesperson Kamran Khan Bangash, …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has convened a session of the upper house of parliament on Saturday morning (Feb 20) on the requisition of the opposition on a one-point agenda to discuss the controversial presidential ordinance promulgated by the government on Feb 6, seeking open Senate vote. The session has been called at a time when a presidential reference on …

PML-N Senator Mushahidullah Khan passed away in Islamabad early Thursday morning at the age of 68, according to Radio Pakistan. The cause of death was not immediately clear. Mushahidullah had been awarded a ticket by the PML-N to contest the upcoming Senate elections on a general seat. The news was also confirmed by PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz. In a tweet, …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said Pakistan’s economic indicators had improved compared to other countries despite the Covid-19 pandemic, adding that the country’s exports had shown an increase higher than that of its regional competitors. The prime minister was speaking at a ceremony in Islamabad celebrating the milestone of the Roshan Digital Accounts (RDA) initiative crossing the $500 million …

Frozen wind turbines in Texas caused some conservative state politicians to declare Tuesday that the state was relying too much on renewable energy. But in reality, the wind power was expected to make up only a fraction of what the state had planned for during the winter. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas projected that 80% of the grid’s winter …

Failures across Texas’ natural gas operations and supply chains due to extreme temperatures are the most significant cause of the power crisis that has left millions of Texans without heat and electricity during the winter storm sweeping the U.S. From frozen natural gas wells to frozen wind turbines, all sources of power generation have faced difficulties during the winter storm. …

In Arkansas, ranchers are fitting pantyhose over the heads of calves in a desperate attempt to keep them warm. In Montana, they’ve been duct-taping calves’ ears to their necks to stop them from falling off. In Oklahoma, newborns arrived onto snow-packed frozen ground and perished while ranchers were reportedly sticking the hardest-hit animals in the front seat of pickup trucks …

The winter storm has halted Texas’ urgent and critical COVID-19 vaccination efforts — delaying the delivery of hundreds of thousands of doses that were scheduled to arrive and preventing what might have been 1 million injections by hundreds of providers this week, state health officials said Tuesday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shipping companies postponed last Friday’s shipments, which …