The death toll from a collapse at a coal mine in northern China rose to four on Thursday, state media reported, as the search for dozens still missing resumed after a massive landslide hindered progress overnight. More than 50 people were trapped when a 180-metre-high slope gave way at the open-pit mine in the Inner Mongolia region’s Alxa Left Banner …

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Tajikistan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck around 5:37 am local time (0037 GMT) at a depth of about 20.5 kilometres (12.7 miles). The USGS estimated that “little or no population” would be exposed to landslides from the quake. Its epicentre appeared to be in Gorno-Badakhshan, a semi-autonomous eastern region that …

PESHAWAR: The district and sessions judge here on Wednesday convicted an activist of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf for sedition, burning the national flag and making its video viral on social media, and sentenced him to 26-month prison term with Rs50,000 fine. Judge Ashfaque Taj ruled that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused, Junaid Ahmad, a resident of Dareshkhel area …

KHYBER: The continuous closure of the Torkham border forced drivers of over 50 trucks loaded with perishable food items to return to Peshawar as the border crossing remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. Most of the stranded transporters said they were running short of money as they had exhausted their limited financial resources while helplessly waiting for …

Six alleged terrorists affiliated with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Department and police in a joint intelligence-based operation in Lakki Marwat, the police said on Thursday. In a statement issued today, Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Shahid Hameed said that the operation was conducted in the jurisdiction of the Dadiwala police station after security …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the local administration to end a food street being set up in the evening on a portion of Burns Road and open the key thoroughfare to vehicular traffic. While allowing two petitions filed against the closure of the road due to a food street, the two-judge bench headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a set of appeals seeking a probe into the cipher, billed as evidence of foreign conspiracy to topple Imran Khan’s government. The order was announced by Justice Qazi Faez Isa during the first-of-its-kind open hearing, held inside his office chambers. Syed Tariq Baddar, advocate Zulfikar Ahmed Bhutta, and Naeemul Hassan through their petitions had urged the …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday initiated a suo motu proceeding to determine who has the constitutional responsibility and authority to announce the date for election to a provincial assembly after it was dissolved in different situations, under the Constitution. Keeping in view the importance of the matter, the CJP set up a nine-judge Supreme …

PESHAWAR: As Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has launched its ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive) from Lahore, the leaders and workers of the party in Peshawar region will present themselves for court arrest today (Thursday). Peshawar region president of PTI Mohammad Atif Khan has asked all the leaders and workers, who have enrolled their names for the court arrest, to reach Gul …

The federal government told the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday that records of the buyers of the Toshakhana gifts since 2002 were being “declassified” and would be uploaded on a website. After initially expressing reluctance over submitting the records, the government had on Feb 21 submitted details of the Toshakhana gifts to the court during the hearing of a petition seeking to make …