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KARACHI: Celebrated singer Nayyara Noor passed away here after a brief illness on Saturday, her family and friends said. She was 71. The nature of her illness was not immediately clear. Born in the Indian state of Assam in 1950, she migrated to Pakistan her with family in the late 1950s. A keen enthusiast of melody, she started learning music …

Polling continued in the by-election in the NA-245 constituency of Karachi on Sunday, as voters are set to pick a representative for the seat that was vacated by the late Aamir Liaquat Hussain of the PTI. The process, which began at 8am this morning and will continue till 5pm, saw low turnout when even more than six hours since polling …

Pakistan on Sunday firmly rejected the “recent spate of false terrorism-related assertions” by India, stating that some “detached” purported incidents were being presented as a “so-called terror plot”. In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad referred to recent incidents reported by the Indian media. “In order to build on this orchestrated ‘terrorism’ narrative against Pakistan, a section of …

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said the government was holding legal consultations on whether to file a separate case against PTI Chairman Imran Khan for his “provocative speech” a day ago or nominate him in a previous case. In a press conference in Islamabad, the minister called out Imran for allegedly threatening institutions and preventing officers from performing their …

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast a fresh three-day monsoon spell for Sindh starting on Tuesday, predicting heavy to moderate showers in several cities of the province. In its latest forecast issued on Saturday, the Met Office said a “strong low-pressure area”, currently located over eastern India, was likely to approach Sindh on August 23 and under its impact, …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday launched Rs37.2 billion flood relief cash programme to disburse Rs50,000 cash assistance in two install­ments among 1.5 million affected families each in the country, particularly in Balochistan where hundreds died and infrastructure was damaged the most by floods amid heavy monsoon rains. Fund are being given through the Benazir Income Support Programme in …

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday demanded that an independent panel — comprising former human rights minister Shireen Mazari, PPP’s Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique — be constituted to probe the “custodial torture” of incarcerated party member Shahbaz Gill. “These people have a point of view on torture, which is independent of their parties’ narrative […] hence, …

PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar decried on Saturday the Punjab police’s move to raid the residences of his party’s lawmakers and register cases against them as an act of “revenge” for legal proceedings initiated against PTI’s Shahbaz Gill over his controversial remarks during an ARY News bulletin. Tarar, who was speaking to the media alongside other PML-N leaders in Islamabad, said the raids were carried out on …

PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that British newspaper The Guardian had taken his comments on author Salman Rushdie’s attack “out of context”. In an interview with the UK-based publication on Friday, Imran was quoted as terming the knife attack on the Indian-born novelist “sad” and “terrible”, which could not be justified in the name of Islam. “Rushdie understood because he …

  By Raja Zahid A Khanazada Dallas: Pakistan Society of North Texas (PSNT) organized a magnificent festival named ‘the Quaid Mela,’ in Dallas in connection with Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day, which is dubbed the largest festival by Pakistanis on U.S soil. Famous singers Ali Haider, and classical and pop singer Naeem Abbas Rufi presented songs at the live show, while …