ISLAMABAD: The country’s two major opposition parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — under a planned strategy on Sunday kept the national media engaged throughout the polling day by issuing statements of its various leaders, copies of written complaints submitted to the election commission and video clips from various constituencies highlighting alleged rigging and …

Pakistan has reported 3,752 coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the national positivity rate to a whopping 7.51 per cent as the country battles a fourth wave of the pandemic. According to the National Command and Operation Centre, this is the highest number of cases reported since May 21 when 4,007 infections were reported, and a dramatic overnight …

PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has served a show cause notice on a party candidate in the AJK general elections for his controversial statement a day ago wherein he threatened to “call India for help” if attempts were made [by the government] to rig the polls. Chaudhry Ismail Gujjar, representing the PML-N in the AJK elections from LA-35, spoke to journalists in …

Affixed to many traffic light arms in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are what look like cameras aimed at oncoming vehicles. Cameras and other technology installed on traffic lights at Stemmons and Valwood in Dallas, TX, on Jul. 2, 2021.(Jason Janik / Special Contributor) Some people confuse them with red-light cameras, but the use of red-light cameras has been banned in Texas …

Dallas-Fort Worth finally hit 100 degrees for the first time this year, but there are plenty more hot days ahead. The triple digits were recorded just after 3 p.m. Sunday at DFW International Airport, according to the National Weather Service. Sunday’s temperature ended a weeks-long reprieve, as July 1 is the average for hitting the century mark in North Texas, …

Dallas police are investigating the death of a man who was found shot at a homeless encampment Sunday morning. Officers were called about 8:45 a.m. to the 1700 block of Chestnut Street, on the border of Deep Ellum and South Dallas, police said. The man, who has not been identified, was found with a gunshot wound to his left bicep, …

Arlington police are investigating the death of a man who was shot Sunday at a park, authorities say. Officers responded to the shooting about 12:15 p.m in the 2200 block of Greenway Street, near Helen Wessler Park. They were told a woounded man in his early 20s had been dropped off at a local hospital. The man, whose identity will …

Two children were wounded in a shooting late Saturday in Pleasant Grove, Dallas police say. The incident happened about 10:45 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Masters Drive, near Lake June Road, authorities said. Both victims were taken to a hospital, but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. No information was released about what led to the …

A man was killed in an overnight shooting in Pleasant Grove, Dallas police said. Officers were called about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday to the scene of a shooting in the 2100 block of Aspen Street, near Bruton Road. A man who had been shot multiple times was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police identified him as Bennie …

Since an explosion rocked a Plano neighborhood last Monday — leveling one house, spraying building material across the subdivision and hospitalizing six people — residents have been left wondering what caused the destruction. Some suspected a lightning strike from a storm that was overhead shortly before 5 p.m., when the blast occurred. However, authorities indicated the following day that an isolated …