LAHORE: Expressing shock over children’s rap and pornography scams surfacing in Kasur and Chunian, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday directed the chief minister and senior officials to engage religious scholars, notables, schoolteachers and parents and offer them proper training and awareness to save children from falling a prey to criminals. The prime minister was presiding over a series of …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended the sentence of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the al-Azizia corruption reference for eight weeks on medical grounds. A two-member judge bench comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Mohsin Akhtar Kayani had earlier reserved the verdict on the plea seeking the suspension of the former premier’s sentence in the case. The court …

The San Antonio-born star of Supernatural who’s set to fill Chuck Norris’ boots in a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger was arrested early Sunday morning in Austin after allegedly assaulting two employees at a bar. Officers arrived at Stereotype, a bar on Rio Grande Street, between 5th and 6th streets, a few minutes after 2 a.m. after a man outside the place flagged them …

Tuesday morning, 25-year-old Jenna Schardt will undergo brain surgery at Methodist Dallas Medical Center while conscious in order to remove a mass of blood vessels in her brain – and she wants the public there with her. When surgeons approached Schardt about broadcasting her surgery on Facebook, there was no hesitation, according to Methodist Dallas. A portion of the brain …

Texas Instruments is donating $5 million to the University of Texas at Dallas to create an endowment fund supporting engineering research in new and emerging fields. The gift is the largest single donation ever committed to UTD, according to the university. It will be formally announced Tuesday at an annual campuswide event celebrating UTD’s founders. The endowment fund will let …

Friday is the last day of early voting for the Nov. 5 election. Here’s information about where to vote and what’s on the ballot. On Election Day on Nov. 5, voters in Dallas County for the first time, will be able to cast their ballots at any polling location in the county, instead of at an assigned precinct, during early …

In Dallas, a black middle school student was 11 times more likely to get suspended than an Asian classmate, and 43 times more likely to be booked into juvenile detention in 2017. That’s just two of the stark racial disparities highlighted Monday in findings from the city’s Equity Indicators project, a two-year, 64-page report that measured the city’s progress toward …

AUSTIN — The Texas House LGBTQ Caucus is counting on Democrats flipping the Republican-held House to keep another possible ‘bathroom bill’ off the table during the 2021 legislative session. Texas Republicans last week rallied around a child custody case of a Dallas 7-year-old whose mother says is transgender, pledging to intervene against children’s gender transition. Members of the caucus, who fought …

The weekend saw yet another evildoer open fire on innocent victims — this time carnage at a crowded party of young people near Greenville celebrating college homecoming festivities. Two more dead people and at least six others injured in yet another mass shooting in this state. That more of the hundreds who were gathered Saturday night weren’t killed or injured …

This story is developing and will be updated. AT&T’s leaders sought to move beyond a dispute with Elliott Management Monday by putting forward a 3-year plan that includes many of the activist investor’s recommendations. Among them, AT&T pledged to sell off billions of dollars of non-essential businesses and promised to not make any major acquisitions in the next several years. …