Pakistan

Karachi and other areas of Sindh witnessed heavy rainfall coupled with strong winds and thunderstorms on Saturday increasing fears of urban flooding as the monsoon system across the country has intensified. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), heavy showers lashed DHA, Clifton, II Chundrigar Road, Ibrahim Hyderi, Korangi, Saddar, Sharae Faisal, Malir, and Stargate after 10am today. The monsoon …

MANSEHRA: Five members of a family, including a man and his son, were killed when a pickup van plunged into a deep ravine in Karo area of Lower Kohistan on Thursday. “The bodies of all five dead have been retrieved from the ravine and shifted to the nearby health facility,” Lower Kohistan district police officer Zulfiqar Khan Jadoon told mediapersons. …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Thursday briefed the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry over telephone about the hazardous impacts of climate change being faced by Pakistan. Mr Kerry expressed the desire to continue working together for tackling climate change issues, says a press release. The minister underscored that Pakistan was consistently placed …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Thursday signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding fiscal responsibility after the federal government agreed to address its ex-Fata funding and other issues. The centre had agreed in the Memorandum of Economic and Fiscal Policies inked with the International Monetary Fund last month to present a MoU duly signed by provinces for the provision …

KARACHI: With the first heaviest spell of the current monsoon rains so far, Thursday’s moderate to heavy showers played havoc with the dilapidated civic infrastructure and precarious power distribution system leaving one man electrocuted, flooding in low-lying areas and hours-long traffic jams on main arteries of the city. The Met office observatories recorded 65mm of rain in Surjani Town by …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday inaugurated the Green and Blue Line metro bus services. The inauguration, which saw several postponements during the last one week, was finally held on Thursday morning at Jillani Stop in Bhara Kahu. After Orange Line from Peshawar Mor to the new airport, now both the Green and Blue Lines have become operational. CDA …

ISLAMABAD: Taking a significant and positive step, the government has decided to live telecast the proceedings of the parliamentary committees, including the powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In this regard, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has written a letter to National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, suggesting him to finalise “an appropriate mechanism and parameters” for the live telecast of the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan seems to be moving towards a sixth wave of Covid-19 after a gap of more than four months, as the country reported nine deaths on Thursday. Moreover, 872 infections were reported. However, the national positivity rate, which had been more than four per cent for the last one week, dropped to 3.77pc as the number of tests carried …

The government has constituted a 10-member committee to ensure the implementation of austerity measures, as it sought to cut expenditures to reduce fiscal debt, it emerged on Friday. The move comes as Pakistan is seeking the resumption of the IMF’s extended fund facility and to that end, has committed to reducing the fiscal deficit. According to the Finance Division notification dated July …

TAXILA: Chakwal police arrested journalist Imran Riaz Khan from the Attock district judicial complex soon after a judge, in an early morning verdict, dismissed a treason case against the anchorperson and ordered his release for lack of sufficient evidence. The journalist, who was taken into custody by Attock police near Islamabad on Tuesday night, was granted relief by a local court in …