Toronto Police on Tuesday evening termed the death of Baloch rights activist Karima Baloch, who went missing over the weekend before being found dead, as “non-criminal”. Karima Baloch, who hailed from Balochistan and was also known as Karima Mehrab, went missing on Sunday in Toronto’s downtown waterfront area. She was living in the Canadian city in exile for about five years. …

British telecoms regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) on Tuesday fined Worldview Media Network £20,000 after its Indian channel Republic Bharat TV aired a programme which showed “hate speech” against Pakistanis. In a decision published earlier this year, Ofcom found that in a current affairs programme — Poochta Hai Bharat — the presenter Arnab Goswami and some of his guests made “several statements which amounted to hate …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday summoned the Indian Charge d’affaires to register Pakistan’s strong protest over ceasefire violations by Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control (LoC) a day earlier. Due to indiscriminate and unprovoked firing by Indian occupation forces in Hotspring and Jandrot sectors of the LoC on Dec 22, 50-year-old Khadeeja embraced shahadat, and 16-year-old Samar, …

Dubai will start inoculating people with the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech for free from Wednesday, the emirate’s government said, joining Saudi Arabia which last week became the first Arab country to begin using this vaccine. The move comes after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain earlier this month rolled out a vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical …

ISLAMABAD: A large number of politicians, representatives of trade unions and traders, doctors and medical students on Tuesday reached Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) to express solidarity with the employees protesting against alleged privatisation of the hospital. Last month, President Dr Arif Alvi promulgated the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Ordinance under which the hospital will be run through a …

ISLAMABAD: Following the federal cabinet’s directive on Tuesday, all stakeholders are likely to hold an on-spot meeting on Wednesday (today) to discuss modalities to remove encroachments from Margalla Road. A participant of the cabinet meeting told Dawn that it was briefed regarding the encroachments on Margalla Road and a greenbelt in portions of E-9 and E-8. The cabinet was told that the …

KARACHI: As members of the Karachi Press Club were announcing rival panels for KPC’s upcoming annual elections, there was sad news coming in about the passing of one of its oldest stalwarts and former president Abdul Hameed Chhapra on Tuesday afternoon. He was 81. Mr Chhapra served as KPC’s president for five times and once as its secretary. He had …

KARACHI: At least eight people were killed and 30 others injured when the boiler of a New Karachi factory exploded on Tuesday destroying the infrastructure and power supply system of the densely populated neighbourhood, officials and eyewitnesses said. The powerful blast destroyed the ground-plus-one factory structure and badly damaged two other neighbouring industrial units while shattering the windowpanes of houses …

ISLAMABAD: With the country’s judiciary struggling to tackle a huge backlog of 2.18 million cases, the National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee is meeting on Wednesday (today) to take stock of pendency, institution and disposal of cases in the superior and district courts during the period between Jan 1 and Nov 30 this year. The NJPMC meeting to be presided over …

QUETTA: Six coal mine workers were trapped after a fire broke out in a mine in Duki district, while three other miners fell unconscious due to accumulation of toxic gas in another coal mine in Kachhi district of Balochistan on Tuesday. Official sources said miners were working deep inside a private coal company’s mine in Chamalang coal field area of …