Pakistan

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will arrive in Pakistan today on a three-day visit during which he will attend a ceremony planned to mark 10 years of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. A statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday said that the Chinese vice premier will be in Pakistan from July 30 (today) to August …

QUETTA: A campaign to administer polio vaccination to approximately 2.6 million children under five years of age will be launched across Balochistan from August 1, according to the province’s polio eradication programme head. Syed Zahid Shah, the provincial Emergency Operation Centre coordinator, said 11,539 teams of health workers have been formed for the seven-day campaign. He was briefing a meeting …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has rejected a Sept 8, 2020 Peshawar High Court (PHC) order to compensate an individual whose house was damaged by aerial shelling during Operation Rah-i-Nijat conducted by the army in 2007. “One of the significant aspects of the case is that the compensation was based on the damages caused in the year 2007, but claim was …

ISLAMABAD: As the impacts of climate change are getting more intense, people are increasingly turning to courts to combat the crisis, according to a new report. The “Global Climate Litigation Report, 2023 Status Review”, published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said 2,180 climate-related cases have been filed in a year — reflecting a steady increase from 884 cases …

Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Sunday “dropped” a bill aimed at curbing violent extremism after fierce opposition from lawmakers, including those from the ruling coalition. According to the agenda for today’s session, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah was supposed to table the bill titled ‘The Prevention of Violent Extremism Bill 2023’. However, many parliamentarians, including those from the ruling coalition, opposed …

Flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy downpour blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) at various points in Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday. Diamer Deputy Commissioner (DC) Captain (Rtd) Arif Ahmad told Dawn.com that the KKH was blocked near Goharabad village’s Gandalo area, adding that it was blocked at nine different points within a 1.5-kilometre stretch. He further said that two cars were damaged after …

QUETTA / LAHORE: With constant rains inundating more and more parts of Balochistan, authorities have declared an emergency in around a dozen districts, amid a fresh warning from the meteorological department of thundershowers in the upper and central parts of the country over the next three days. One more death was reported in the Pishin area, while several villages came …

Mourners across the country took out processions to observe Yaum-i-Ashura (Muharram 10) amid tight security arrangements on Saturday, with mobile phone services suspended in some areas to prevent any untoward incident. Yaum-i-Ashura is observed every year on Muharram 10 with solemnity to pay homage to Imam Husain — the grandson of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other martyrs of Karbala. …

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to “fully and forcefully” implement its resolutions on the Middle East conflict that give the right of self-determination to Palestinian people. Addressing a meeting of the 15-member UNSC on Thursday, Ambassador Munir Akram strongly condemned the recent large-scale Israeli military’s operations in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank, and called for …

Mourners across the country took out processions to observe Yaum-i-Ashura (Muharram 10) amid tight security arrangements on Saturday, with mobile phone services suspended in some areas to prevent any untoward incident. Yaum-i-Ashura is observed every year on Muharram 10 with solemnity to pay homage to Imam Husain — the grandson of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other martyrs of Karbala. …