KARACHI: A six-year-old girl, who went missing earlier this week, was found murdered in the Bin Qasim area on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said. They said that the body was found in a drain off National Highway. The corpse was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors confirmed that she was brutally raped and then murdered. Area …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday granted time to a petitioner to file some documents in a petition seeking removal of a ban on media coverage of Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain. Citing the secretaries of ministries of interior, law and information and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) as respondents, Petitioner Aftabuddin Baqai stated that the MQM …

Girders of an under-construction flyover in the Bhara Kahu area of Islamabad collapsed on Thursday, less than a week after the bridge’s shuttering came apart leaving two labourers dead and three injured. Islamabad police confirmed the incident in a tweet, adding that there were no injuries or casualties. “The girders of an under-construction bridge have collapsed,” read a tweet by Islamabad Police. …

An hours-long protest on Karachi’s National Highway against the brutal rape and murder of a six-year-old girl, whose body was found in Bin Qasim Town on Wednesday, was called off the same day after a senior police official assured the protesters of further arrests. Two suspects are in police custody so far. The minor had gone missing three days ago …

Former national hockey player Shahida Raza was among the Pakistanis who lost their lives after a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast over the weekend, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported on Wednesday. The vessel had set sail from Turkiye several days ago with migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries, and crashed in …

LOS ANGELES: Rafael Nadal will miss the ATP 1000 events at Indian Wells and Miami, the 22-time Grand Slam champion confirmed on social media on Tuesday. “I am sad that I won’t be able to compete at Indian Wells nor Miami,” Nadal said in a tweet which came after Indian Wells officials announced he had withdrawn from the tournament in …

LAHORE: Showing no complacency will be the key as leaders Lahore Qalandars take on bottom-of-the-table side Quetta Gladiators in the Pakis­tan Super League match here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. While in-form Qalandars — having eight points with four wins in five matches so far — will be looking to carry on their winning streak at home, Sarfraz Ahmed-captained …

KARACHI: The emergence of a number attacking wicket-keeper/batsmen in Pakistan is not a competition that intimidates national team mainstay Mohammad Rizwan, who, inst­ead, is on a search for more of his breed. Rizwan’s ability with the gloves has never been looked at with doubt but in the last two and a half years, he has silenced many who used to …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa has said that people have every right to know how the administration of justice is undertaken. “We must not be unmindful of the fact that the judiciary was established for one and only one purpose; to decide cases, which it must do efficiently, fairly and transparently,” he said. The observations came in a nine-page judgement …

ISLAMABAD: Last month, prices rose at the fastest pace ever in the country’s history, according to available data, with food, beverage and transport costs driving inflation to a point where analysts fear “families will have to make choices and sacrifices”. Monthly inflation, measured by a basket of products called the Consumer Price Index (CPI), jumped to 31.6 per cent in …