GUJRAT: An 18-year-old girl on Saturday died at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital after alleged gang rape. The girl’s family bemoaned that she had been murdered as she was administered tranquiliser by the main suspect. Police, however, claimed the girl had committed suicide after failing to convince a person she was alleged to have an affair with to marry …

LAKKI MARWAT: The father of a medical student, who was murdered in Kohat in 2018, has pardoned her killer. Ghulam Dastagir, father of Asma Rani, who was killed on Jan 17, pardoned her murderer, Mujahidullah, hailing from the Afridi tribe of Kohat, at a function held in Naurang town here on Sunday. The murder dispute settlement function locally called ‘nanawatey’ …

MULTAN / D.G. KHAN: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has accused both the ruling PTI and the opposition parties, mainly PML-N, for the suffering of the masses. Talking to media in Multan on Sunday, the PPP chairman, who is on a week-long tour of south Punjab, said a government that was formed in an undemocratic manner could be ousted only by …

KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: In a significant development, the Sindh health department has decided to introduce obligatory Covid-19 vaccination regime in restaurants, hotels, banks, post offices and courier services. Meanwhile, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has approved alternative drugs and allowed health facilities to use them for critically-ill Covid-19 patients. As many as 3,747 people were infected and 61 …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has reversed his two `controversial’ decisions directly linked with powers and efficacy of the standing committees following the opposition’s outcry, but made another contentious move by increasing the ruling alliance’s strength in a panel set to take up proposed amendments to introduce electronic voting machines (EVM) and voting right for overseas Pakistanis, informed sources told Dawn. …

Pakistan commemorated the 56th Defence Day on Monday to pay homage to the martyrs of the 1965 war against India. On September 6, 1965, the people of Pakistan and the country’s armed forces thwarted nefarious designs of the enemy after India attacked across the international border and a full-scale war broke out, which concluded with a ceasefire on September 22. …

A man was found dead late Saturday at a downtown Dallas hotel after he accidentally shot himself while he was cleaning a gun, a witness told police. Dallas officers who responded to the shooting about 11:30 p.m. at the Omni Dallas Hotel in the 500 block of South Lamar Street, near Interstate 35E, found the man with a gunshot wound …

HOUSTON (AP) — Firefighters found two adults and two children dead of apparent gunshot wounds after extinguishing a blaze at a home in Houston on Sunday. There weren’t any signs of forced entry at the house in the southwest of the city and the fire, which was reported shortly after 8 a.m., may have been an attempt to destroy evidence …

A weak cold front moved through North Texas Sunday, accompanied by scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. But most of North Texas received no rain at all. The front dropped the temperature below normal for a change, with a high at DFW of 90 degrees. The best chance of rain Monday will be farther south in central Texas. Labor Day …

Money sent to the Mexican homeland by U.S. immigrants is soaring, busting monthly records as that country and its economy continue to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. This year for the first seven months, through July, the flow hit $28 billion, up nearly 24% from the same period last year, according to Mexico’s central bank. This past July, the flow of money …