Pakistan

KARACHI: The Karachi Metrop­olitan Corporation (KMC) and zoo authorities are impeding efforts to rescue a Himalayan bear languishing at Karachi Zoological Gardens for the past several years and release her to its habitat in northern Pakistan, it emerged on Sunday. Named Rani, the brown bear was brought to the zoo in 2017 along with a black bear. The latter died …

KARACHI: Calling the current caretaker administration “a continuation of the legacy of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government”, the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday annou­nc­ed to stage citywide protests on Tues­day (tomorrow) against the exorbitant rise in prices of petroleum products and growing inflation. Addressing a press conference at the party’s headquarters Idara Noor-i-Haq, JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman while …

ISLAMABAD: At a ceremony that was as symbolic as it was ceremonial, Justice Qazi Faez Isa was sworn in as the 29th chief justice of Pakistan, with his wife, Sarina Isa, standing beside him as he read out the oath. CJP Isa also made history with his first decision to appoint a judicial officer as the first-ever female registrar of …

LAHORE: A consultative meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N’s) youth coordinators for Lahore was chaired by Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz on Sunday. The meeting is part of a series of activities that the PML-N is conducting these days to make preparations for giving a rousing welcome to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he returns home on Oct 21. …

The Supreme Court (SC) has resumed hearing a set of petitions challenging the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 — which requires formation of benches on constitutional matters of public importance by a committee of three senior judges of the court. In a first, the hearing is being broadcast live on television with all 15 judges of the top …

India is now only the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon. A few hours after the landing, a ramp lowered down and allowed a rover to wheel off on the lunar surface. All of this took place about 400,000 kilometres away from Earth. By any measure, this is an incredible achievement of engineering and science for …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police have registered several cases regarding the theft of garbage bins on complaints of the Capital Development Authority after more than 60 dumpsters were stolen by thieves in urban areas of the federal capital. “More than 60 garbage bins and trolleys kept in various streets…have been taken away by thieves in a month,” CDA Sanitation Director Malik …

PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday granted a one-day physical remand of a TikToker to the police here over his alleged involvement in the May 9 riots. The police’s investigation officer informed the court that the accused, Imran alias Cheeta, hurled stones at police and government buildings with the help of a slingshot and was involved in the riots on …

PESHAWAR: A court has sentenced a man here to life imprisonment after convicting him of desecrating the Holy Quran in Khazana area around five years ago. Additional district and sessions judge Mohammad Sher Ali Khan ruled that the prosecution had proved the charge of Quran burning against the accused “without any shadow of doubt.” He extended the benefit of Section …

PESHAWAR: Business community, transporters and political activists have rejected the increase in the prices of petroleum products and asked the federal government to withdraw it to the relief of inflation-hit people. The transporters warned that they would increase fare unilaterally or go for a wheel-jam strike if the government didn’t reverse oil price hike. “We have convened a meeting of …