On August 25, a student witnessed an incident wherein a female employee of the finance department of Karachi’s Institute of Business Administration (IBA) was allegedly harassed by a male employee in a supervisory position. “What I saw was extremely offensive and humiliating. I was shocked that a man could behave like that with a woman in a professional setting, that …

Pakistan will pursue individual trade deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood said on Sunday, as talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remain stalled. The GCC, which includes those three countries plus Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, started free trade talks with Pakistan in 2004. It has not …

Eleven people have been indicted in connection with a scheme that targeted elderly people for money, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas announced Friday. All 11 were arrested in a large-scale operation Wednesday morning, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Most are tied to a transnational organized crime syndicate originating in Nigeria, the office said. The office …

A Dallas police officer was sitting in his patrol car in west Oak Cliff late Friday when several shots were fired in his direction, the department said Saturday. Police said in a news release that no one was injured in the incident, which happened just after 11:30 p.m. in the 5300 block of West Jefferson Boulevard, a stretch of road …

DEL RIO, Texas — By this weekend, the sprawling squalid migrant camp near the international bridge here was silent. At least 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants had come and gone. When it comes to the fight for sympathy from the hearts of Americans, Haitians may have the edge. But the get-tough policies played out in this small border town between a …

Another Air Quality Alert has been issued for the DFW area again on Sunday. Limit time outdoors if you have respiratory problems. After a couple of days with below normal temperatures, warmer weather returned this weekend. Temperatures warmed into the low 90s Saturday, and will do so again the next few days. We will also notice an increase in humidity …

No one was injured in a fiery propane tank explosion at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, KDFW-TV (Channel 4 reports. A brief video posted by the station showed the end of a building already in flames when the explosion sent a fireball rocketing into the air before shocked onlookers. A spokesman for the speedway told KDFW that the blast occurred near …

The state is on the verge of passing the 4 million mark for coronavirus cases after reporting 12,440 more cases Saturday, including 9,513 that are confirmed, 2,281 that are probable and 646 that are older and were recently reported to the state. The state also reported 317 COVID-19 deaths, raising its toll to 62,786. The state’s case total is now …

Dallas police are asking for the public’s help finding a 76-year-old woman last seen Friday afternoon in Old East Dallas. Miriam Restrepo was last seen around 1 p.m. walking in the 5500 block of Worth Street, near Abrams Road and North Munger Boulevard. Police said she may be confused and need help. Restrepo is described as a Latin woman who …

A 72-year-old man last seen Friday afternoon in Far East Dallas may be confused and in need of help, Dallas police say. Jack William Kemp, Jr. was last seen around 2:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of Highland Road, near Ferguson Road, police said. Kemp is described as Black man who is 6-0 and weighs about 150 pounds. He has …