An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday remanded in physical custody of police for 14 days a pair of suspects allegedly involved in the gang rape of a mother and her daughter. The suspects — Umar Farooq and Munsib — were today produced in the ATC where Investigation Officer Muhammad Sarwar informed the court that the identification parade had been …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stressed on Tuesday the need for the international community’s cooperation for ensuring stability in Afghanistan, as he addressed a joint press conference with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, in Islamabad. Qureshi said he had invited the German foreign minister to Pakistan, where he would be better able to assess the situation. “It will give you …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday directed the provincial governments to take every possible administrative measure to stabilise prices of basic items and check the illogical difference existing between wholesale and retail rates. Also, PM Khan in an interaction with the Wapda chairman called for reduction in electricity charges under the government’s ambitious plan called the ‘Decade of Dams’. …

AUSTIN — Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, refused to give in to threats from Senate Republicans and adjourned his committee meeting late Monday night without bringing two “red meat” priority bills up for a vote. Dutton, the chair of the House Public Education Committee, was under immense pressure to pass along bills targeting the culture-war issues of transgender student athletes and …

The city of Dallas fired an information technology employee in connection with the erroneous deletion of Dallas police evidence, according to emails obtained Monday. The employee had been with the department for nine years before he was fired Friday. He did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday from The News. When reached last week before he was fired, he …

Colleyville Heritage High School principal James Whitfield has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials. In a letter to parents Monday, Superintendent Robin Ryan wrote that Whitfield has been placed on leave but that he would “not go into the specifics because it is a personnel matter.” Whitfield told on Monday night that he was told …

Hundreds of thousands of public health records, including COVID-19 vaccination details, were exposed in a data breach that was linked to an app that is used at Denton County vaccine clinics, officials say. A malfunction in the third-party software revealed contact and identifying information, as well as COVID-19 vaccination types and appointment dates and times, on the internet, officials said …

A Dallas teenager has died after a weekend shooting in Far East Dallas. Police were called just before 4 a.m. Saturday to an apartment parking lot in the 8800 block of Ferguson Road, near Lakeland Drive, where they found two men who had been shot. One of the men was hospitalized in critical condition and later died from his injuries. Police identified …

A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with a fatal central Oak Cliff shooting earlier this month. Danthony Ramon Edwards-Monton faces a murder charge in the death of Devon Raymo. He did not have an attorney listed in court records. Dallas police were called about 11:30 a.m. Aug. 18 to an apartment in the 4100 block of Druid Hills Drive, where …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble under …