Rescuers in Taiwan faced the threat of further landslides and rockfalls in their search on Friday for a dozen people still missing from this week’s earthquake, as the death toll rose to 12 and some of the stranded were brought to safety. Searchers discovered two more bodies after Wednesday’s quake of magnitude 7.2 struck the sparsely populated, largely rural eastern county …

ISLAMABAD: Capacity issues at all levels and a lack of coordination among the stakeholders were two of the key reasons that developing countries, including Pakistan, will counter the effects of climate change and mitigate losses caused by it. Aftab Alam Khan, an award-winning climate change expert, said while talking to the media on Thursday that developing countries need to learn …

ISLAMABAD: With the aim of increasing trade and energy cooperation, Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and Diplomacy Mahdi Safari committed on Thursday to resolve the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline issues amicably. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that Pakistan and Iran enjoyed historically strong bilateral ties that were based on shared values, similar cultures, the same …

ISLAMABAD: The office of the Islamabad police has been lying vacant for almost a week due to a tussle between the district administration, the interior ministry with the police over the Police Order 2002 brought into force by ex-IGP Akbar Nasir Khan in 2022. The Police Order proclaimed by the ex-IG empowered the police chief and placed the capital police under the …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday directed the interior ministry to remove the name of former federal minister Dr Shireen Mazari from the Exit Control List (ECL). Ms Mazari’s name was placed on the ECL because she was among those members of the PTI-led federal cabinet that had approved the confidential agreement that allowed transfer of GBP190 million to …

KARACHI: Enjoying a majority so far in Senate, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday nominated its senior leader Yusuf Raza Gillani as its candidate for the post of Senate chairman. The party made the announcement in a brief statement for the upcoming election of the Senate chairman which is expected to be held next week. Mr Gillani was elected a …

HYDERABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Thursday accepted Sindh’s request for release of water to the province over and above its share from April 6. Irsa’s decision is the outcome of its Sindh member Mohammad Ehsanul Haq Leghari’s recent move to take up the issue of increasing values of TDS (total dissolved solids) in Indus water at Kotri …

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday granted post-arrest bail to 39 activists of the PTI in a case of attacking Lahore corps commander’s residence, also known as Jinnah House, during May 9 riots. Judge Arshad Javed allowed the bail petitions of the jailed activists subject to furnishing of surety bonds of Rs100, 000. Those granted bail include Shan Ali, Nadir …

ISLAMABAD: A team of doctors who examined and collected samples from former first lady Bushra Bibi in Banigala on Thursday have found no symptoms of slow poisoning in her body, according to one of the doctors who was part of the medical team. The medical team inclu­ded doctors from Islama­bad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer …

ISLAMABAD: A lawyer representing former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday raised concerns over the handling of the cipher case, alleging that the foreign ministry was seemingly unbothered by the document’s disappearance, despite being its custodian, and that the interior ministry had “hijacked the case for no reason”. Presenting arguments before a division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), …