Haiti bus accident claims 34 lives
AGENCIES A bus speeding away from the scene of a hit-and-run accident plowed into dozens of street musicians in the Haitian city of Gonaives on Sunday, killing a total of…
China, Turkish troops to take part in Pakistan Day parade: ISPR
NEWS DESK Military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday announced the participation of Chinese and Turkish army troops in Pakistan Day military parade to be performed in Islamabad…
SCP annuls SPSC exams held in 2013
NEWS DESK Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Monday declared all examinations conducted by the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) in 2013 “null and void” in a verdict of suo…
Hussain Haqqani confesses spying in Pakistan for CIA
NEWS DESK Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States (US) Hussain Haqqani has admitted assisting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in stationing of intelligence personnel for special American operations on…
Colours fill the air as Pakistani Hindus celebrate Holi
NEWS DESK Pakistani Hindu community celebrated traditional Holi festival on Sunday with zeal and zest to welcome spring. The main event was celebrated at Suami-Narayn Mandir in Karachi, while people…
PML-N’s Sohail Shaukat Butt booked for PPP’s Babar Sohail Butt’s assassination
NEWS DESK Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former ticket holder Babar Sohail Butt was gunned down by unidentified persons in Manawan’s Lakhodair area on Sunday for which Pakistan Muslim…
Trump’s revised travel ban gets first legal blow
AGENCIES President Donald Trump’s revamped travel ban is facing its first major legal setback, after a federal judge halted enforcement of the directive that would deny US entry to the…
Istanbul helicopter crash kills five including Russians
AGENCIES helicopter Five people were killed after a privately-owned helicopter carrying seven including four Russian passengers hit a television tower and crashed in Istanbul on Friday, state media reported. Istanbul…
Jawed Latif apologises, PTI seeks his disqualification
NEWS DESK Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Jawed Latif apologised a day after slandering female family members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader Murad Saaed outside the National Assembly hall on…
Fire engulfs cloth factory in Landhi industrial area
NEWS DESK Fire broke out at a cloth factory in Karachi’s Landhi industrial area on Friday. At least 12 fire engines with one fire snorkel and two water bowsers are…