KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday sentenced Pakistan Peoples Party leader Dr Nisar Ahmed Jan Memon, alias Nisar Morai, and three others, to seven years in prison each in a case pertaining to illegal appointments in the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS). FCS former chairman Memon, former vice chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqui, former contractor Imran Afzal and former audit manager Shaukat …

GWADAR/CHAGAI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who is on a four-day visit to Balochistan, has said that the government is boosting security arrangements by erecting fences along the borders with Afghanistan and Iran. He said this during a visit to the Pak-Iran border where he took an aerial view of Mand and Redeeg and visited the newly-opened trade gateway with …

• General healthcare workers, people above 60 years asked to get registered for vaccination • NCOC reports 1,340 new cases, 36 deaths ISLAMABAD: With 504,500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine having been dispatched to the federating units, Pakistan is expected to receive another 5.6 million vaccines by the end of March. As so far only 72,882 frontline healthcare workers have got …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the political leadership of France not to entrench the discriminatory attitudes against Muslim into laws and warned that such steps would lead to serious repercussions in the shape of hatred and conflict. “You [France] need to bring people together and not to stamp a religion in a certain manner to create disharmony …

Lahore Qalandars have won the toss and elected to field first in their first match of this year’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) tournament against Peshawar Zalmi at the National Stadium in Karachi on Sunday. Afghanistan spin wizard Rashid Khan will be making his first appearance in the PSL for the Qalandars. Dilbar Hussain is being replaced by Salman Mirza due …

Like so many Texans, LaShonda McGrew spent most of Sunday dazzled by the rare blanket of snow that covered her suburban Fort Worth home. It was beautiful, she told her husband, as they spent the day listening to sermons, sitting next to the fire and preparing for the workweek. As the evening approached, the warnings of a more serious weather event started …

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott and legislative leaders say they’re shocked by the “skyrocketing” energy bills that some Texans are facing in the wake of a brutal freeze that caused multi-day power outages last week. Sfereco, an Italian restaurant in downtown Dallas, had lines around the block. On Saturday, Abbott held a hastily arranged, virtual meeting with 11 key lawmakers …

About 38,000 Oncor customers, including over 5,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth, remained without power Saturday afternoon, according to the electric utility. That total included about 2,300 in Dallas County and 2,900 in Tarrant County, Oncor said. The utility said it expected to end the remaining outages in North Texas by day’s end. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a disaster declaration for …

A man is charged with capital murder of three people whose bodies were found in a burning home Friday evening in Celina, police say. Officers were dispatched about 7:20 p.m. on a shooting call at a house in the 3100 block of Hickory Lane, about half a mile east of Preston Road, police said. While they were en route, authorities …

Dallas County reported 25 COVID-19 deaths and 333 new coronavirus cases Saturday. The latest victims included 19 Dallas residents, of whom four had been living at homes and five had been in long-term care facilities. The remaining victims lived in Addison, DeSoto, Duncanville, Garland, Irving and Richardson. Sixteen of the victims were 60 or older, while eight were in their …