KARACHI: With the weather system getting stronger and strengthening further into a cyclonic storm, the city life remained on the edge witnessing stronger winds that uprooted several structures, including poles, and scattered drizzling on Thursday as authorities warned that Karachi and other coastal cities of Sindh and Balochistan were expected to be buffeted by gusty winds and heavy showers when …

ISLAMABAD: With only 20 per cent vaccine-eligible people fully vaccinated in Pakistan, mobility is going to become difficult for non-vaccinated people from Friday (today). According to data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday, 1,742 new cases of Covid-19 and 39 deaths caused by the disease were reported in a single day. The number of active …

Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday said petrol prices in Pakistan were cheaper than the rest of the region and the world, adding that only 16 countries had lower prices — all of them being oil producers themselves. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad with Minister of State for Information Farrukh Habib, Tarin said: “There are only 16 other countries …

The Pakistan Meteorological Department on Friday said that the deep depression over the northeast Arabian sea had intensified into a cyclonic storm — Shaheen — and the system was likely to move west-southwestwards towards Oman/Makran. In the latest update, the department said that the storm was at a distance of 280km southwest of Karachi, 230km from Ormara and 470km southwest …

An accountability court in Lahore on Friday indicted Nusrat Shehbaz, the wife of Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, in a money laundering reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). In December last year, Nusrat was declared absconder by the accountability court for her persistent non-appearance in the money laundering reference. During Friday’s hearing in the court of …

Mountaineer Sirbaz Khan became the first Pakistani on Friday to climb nine of the world’s highest 14 peaks — each of which has a height of more than 8,000 metres — after he scaled the 8,167-metre-high Dhaulagiri mountain in Nepal, said Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary Karrar Haidri. Sirbaz was part of the 19-member ‘SST-Dhaulagiri I Expd. 2021 Autumn’ expedition …

While Prince William and Kate Middleton are gearing up to become the future King and Queen consort of England, their kids are getting trained to work as upcoming senior members of the royal family. As revealed by royal historian Robert Lacey, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are however ‘aware’ that all three of their kids have different royal paths. …

Lena Dunham shared the details of her surprise wedding to Luis Felber, wherein Taylor Swift was a bridesmaid. The actress made sure she had all her best friends with her at the nuptials, and so she had eight bridesmaids in total. “With the bridesmaid dresses, we were doing a kind of Swinging Sixties, silver pleated, go-go girl energy, but one …

Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Co have finally settled their legal dispute stemming from the release of her Marvel superhero movie ‘Black Widow.’ The 36-year-old actress sued Disney in July, accusing the entertainment giant of breaching her contract when the company offered the movie on its subscription streaming service Disney+ at the same time the film was playing in theaters. …

Latin singer Gloria Estefan has revealed that she was sexually abused at the age of 9 by a music teacher who was part of her family. The Turn the Beat Around  singer spoke for the first time about the abuse on an episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans that was released on Facebook Watch on Thursday. She did not identify the man but …