Pakistan

The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan on Saturday “strongly condemned” a suicide attack targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan’s Gwadar district on Friday, asking Pakistan “to take practical and effective measures” to prevent recurrence of such incidents in future. At least two children were killed and three people were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself near the vehicle …

A moderate earthquake of magnitude 3.1 struck Karachi — the provincial capital of Sindh — on Saturday morning, according to the Pakistan’s National Seismic Monitoring Centre. The centre said the earthquake, felt at 11:39am in various parts of the metropolis, originated 76 kilometres northeast of Karachi and had a depth of 15km. The statement added the quake had a longitude …

KABUL: An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation said Thursday. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the death of Zaki Anwari in the …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has summoned the attorney general for Pakistan and Pakistan Bar Council office-bearers over a petition against the rules, which allow the council to give a countrywide call for strike. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Wiqar Ahmad fixed Sept 15 for the next hearing into the case directing the attorney general, …

KOHAT: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Wednesday to have arrested two wanted terrorists belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and seized heavy weapons and huge cash from them. The terrorists were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of 14 workers of a mobile company when they installing a tower in Kurram district, last month. A statement issued here said that …

RAWALPINDI: The principal and a female instructor of a seminary were booked by Pirwadhai police after a student accused them of sexually assaulting and torturing her. According to the first information report (FIR), the victim’s father said his daughter had been studying at the seminary since the last seven years. He said he received a phone call from the management, …

KARACHI: The Sindh government has put on hold its plan to import vaccines amid improved supplies from the centre and multiple unsolved issues between the provincial and federal governments which were crucial to complete the process, officials and sources said on Wednesday. They said the Sindh government’s plan to buy the single-dose vaccine developed by CanSino Biologics Inc to boost …

RAWALPINDI: Law enforcement agencies were alerted and a search operation was launched after a drone-like device was sighted in Banigala and Bhara Kahu areas on Wednesday. According to sources, the device was seen in the sky around the prime minister’s residence and other important buildings in the area. The search operation was launched after the emergency police informed Bhara Kahu …

The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives on Friday announced the launch of a mobile application to “protect emotional health of the front line responders as part of the Covid-19 response in the country”. The mobile app ‘MyCare+’, will soon be launched under the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) initiative, the ministry tweeted from its official Twitter account. …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday welcomed the $85 million investment through Series B financing — the largest single private funding round in Pakistan’s history — in Airlift, a Lahore-based online shopping delivery service. Series B financing is the second round of funding for a company that has met certain milestones and is past the initial startup stage. “We welcome the recent …