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GWADAR: Two security personnel were martyred and four others injured in an attack at a bomb disposal squad of Pakistan Army in the Ankara Dam area on Sunday, officials said. The bomb disposal team of Pakistan Army was busy clearing landmines in the Ankara Dam area of Gwadar district when unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire on them. Two soldiers …

RAWALPINDI: A case of theft of crude oil from the main pipeline of Pakistan Oilfields Limited (POL) has come to light as 3,904 barrels of crude oil were stolen in Dhamial area. Shahid Ahmad, associated with Pakistan Oilfields Limited, said in the FIR that he and the company’s patrolling official, Haris bin Fida, were on duty on Saturday morning when …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Upper Kohistan’s Dasu on Monday to meet engineers from the Chinese company working on the dam project, according to Radio Pakistan. The visit comes days after five Chinese engineers — and their Pakistani driver — were killed in the suicide bombing on March 26 while travelling between Islamabad and a hydroelectric dam construction site in …

ISLAMABAD: The first batch of 30 of the total 150 electric buses to be operated in Islamabad is set to be dispatched from China which will arrive in Karachi after three weeks. Sources said after customs clearance, the buses will reach in the capital in May. A source in China said the buses had been loaded into a vessel which …

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Shehryar Khan Afridi on Sunday proposed formation of a trilateral parliamentary committee to help counter-terrorism efforts in China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mr Afridi visited the Chinese embassy’s deputy chief of mission (DCM) Shi Yuanqiang and conveyed his commiserations over the loss of precious lives in the recent terrorist attack on Chinese engineers. Besides, …

KARACHI: The PTI on Sunday announced boycotting Senate elections in Sindh, scheduled for April 2, alleging that pre-poll rigging could lead to the unopposed victory of all 12 candidates from the province, where the PPP enjoys majority. The PTI’s Sindh chapter said the decision to boycott polls was made with consensus among the party leadership, which believes that after the Feb 8 …

LAHORE: A Bengal tigress which was being transported from Lahore to Multan by an animal dealer after buying it from a breeding farm in Lahore ran away into the fields from its cage near Multan in the wee hours of Sunday. The animal trader was identified as Muhammad Adnan. Punjab Wildlife Department Multan Deputy Director Sheikh Zahid told Dawn the tigress was …

ISLAMABAD: During the first quarter of 2024, Pakistan witnessed 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel, and outlaws, resulting from as many as 245 incidents of terror att­acks and counter-terror operations. This includes 281 fatalities among civilians and security forces personnel. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan provinces, both bordering Afghanistan, accounted for over 92 per cent of …

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati on Monday filed a review petition against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) order wherein it directed him to administer oaths to opposition MPAs elected to reserved seats. The opposition and provincial government are at odds over the assembly session for the oath-taking of MPAs elected on reserved seats for women and minorities. Last …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday suspended the 14-year sentence handed out to former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Toshakhana reference. The two were sentenced in the case by an Islamabad accountability court on January 31, days before the general elections.