ISLAMABAD: Two Himalayan brown bears along with the lone elephant, Kaavan, of Islamabad Marghazar Zoo may be relocated to a foreign country since sanctuaries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab are not ready to accommodate them. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Friday resumed hearing of a case related to shifting of Kaavan to a sanctuary in Cambodia. Islamabad Wildlife Management …

KARACHI: All pre-primary, primary and middle classes across Sindh will be resumed from Monday (Sept 28) under the standard operating procedures (SOPs) prescribed by the government. This was stated by Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani at a press conference held at the Sindh Assembly building here on Friday. The minister said he had postponed only the second phase …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s standing committee on water resources expressed concern on Friday over complaints by provinces about allocation of water and non-installation of telemetry system. It directed the authorities concerned to submit PC-1 of the telemetry system within 15 days. The meeting, presided over by Senator Shamim Afridi, took up a motion moved in the upper house of parliament by …

BUNER: A man on Friday shot dead his 18-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter-in-law after an objectionable video of them went viral on social media, in Naway Kalay village of Daggar here. The police shifted the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital, Daggar, for autopsy. The bodies were later handed over to relatives. Mother of the teenage girl told the Daggar …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has assailed the government for hike in power tariff and increase in prices of essential items at a time of high unemployment and extreme inflation. “The government has been up to nothing but dropping one inflation bomb after the other on the people,” PPP parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman said while talking …

LAHORE: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid says he feels honoured to be a spokesman for the Pakistan army and meeting the army and ISI chiefs is a matter of pride. He warned the opposition parties — the PML-N, the PPP and the JUI-F — to be careful as “there will be doomsday if he reveals the telephonic data / record… …

ISLAMABAD: Removing a provision of public hanging of rapists from the anti-rape bill, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he wanted to take all parliamentary parties on board in future legislation. During a meeting with National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser at the Prime Minister House, he said the anti-rape bill would be introduced in the National Assembly in its …

• Says he is always aware of meetings between politicians, military leadership • Defends decision to skip huddle on Gilgit-Baltistan ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the opposition wanted to create a rift between the government and armed forces, claiming that he had been aware of politicians’ meetings with army leadership. The prime minister in a meeting with news …

National Press Club, Washington DC will Launch By: Raja Zahid Khanzada Washington DC :Book on Pakistani Media and Society National Press Club in Washington DC will launch a new book on Pakistani media co-edited by Dr. Qaisar Abbas and Farooq Sulehria on September 30 at 7 pm. To receive an invitation to join the virtual event, please email at Heatherforsgrenweaver@gmail.com. The …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — In a lifetime filled with photos and accomplishments, Connie Watt wanted one more, and on Sunday she’ll get just that when her three sons play in an NFL game together for the first time. “We’ve been waiting forever. I always used to tell the kids, ‘In your offseason, can’t you just bring your NFL uniforms home? …