Pakistan

KARACHI: An emotional scene unfolded in Karachi’s Lyari Baghdadi area when a local lady doctor broke down, mourning the children she had watched grow up and who lost their lives in the tragic building collapse, ARY News reported. The lady doctor, visibly shaken, said the children who died were not strangers, they were born in […]

Lando Norris won a treacherous rain-hit British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg took third for the veteran German’s first-ever podium in 239 race starts. Briton Norris returned to a rapturous reception from his home fans as he moved to within eight points of Piastri in the drivers’ standings. “It’s beautiful, everything I ever dreamed of, this is everything I wanted to achieve, aside from winning the championship this is as good as it gets,” beamed Norris. Piastri, who finished less than seven seconds behind Norris, threw away the win after the Australian was hit with a 10-second penalty for a safety car infringement. As last week’s heatwave gave way to a more typical British summer’s day — spells of blue sky mixed with torrential showers — drivers had to keep their wits about them with puddles forming on the track. Norris emerged from the chaos all smiles as he added to his wins already this season in Austria, Monaco and Australia. Ferrari...

Spanish tennis player Jaume Munar has faced criticism after an unusual incident involving a ball boy during his loss to Marin Cilic at Wimbledon. Munar, who was aiming to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, was beaten in four sets by the experienced Croatian. The match […]

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Nabil Gabol has strongly criticised the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) following the Lyari building collapse and questioned whether Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani should also be held accountable, ARY News reported. Speaking to the media in Lyari, Nabil Gabol said that suspending SBCA officials is not enough […]

A private airline’s flight from Lahore to Skardu made an emergency landing on Sunday morning following a bird strike shortly after takeoff.

Rescuers on Sunday concluded their operation to recover people from the site of a five-storey building which collapsed in Karachi earlier this week, with the final death toll standing at 27. Rescue teams worked overnight on Friday to pull out more bodies from the rubble of the building situated in Lyari on Fida Husain Shaikha Road in Lea Market. “The rescue operation was completed on Sunday evening,” Rescue-1122 spokesperson Hassaanul Haseeb Khan told Dawn.com. “No more human casualties have been found; thus, the total death toll stands at 27 people, whose bodies were earlier recovered and transported to Civil Hospital Karachi.” The spokesperson added that acting Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Abid Jalaluddin Shaikh remained on the ground for over 30 hours, directly commanding the rescue operation. Khan said that the exact cause of the collapse would be determined later, but suggested it was “because the building was dilapidated”. “A day before the collapse, residents felt a ‘shock’. It can be said now that ...

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Twenty-seven people lost lives after five-storey residential building collapsed in Baghdadi area of Lyari, Karachi

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The Reuters news agency’s X account handles were “withheld” in India “in response to a legal demand”, Indian outlet The Print reported on Sunday. The accounts for both Reuters and Reuters World were inaccessible in India; however, users were still able to access 30 other Reuters accounts, The Print added. The Reuters news website is also accessible. X users in India have posted screenshots showing that they are unable to access the news agency’s accounts. Reuters has yet to issue a statement, while the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) told India Today that no order was given to restrict the accounts. “There is no requirement from the Government of India to withhold the Reuters handle. We are continuously working with X to resolve the problem,” an official spokesperson for the ministry told outlet India Today. The Print reported that in previous instances of X restricting access to accounts in India due to legal requirements, the platform issued statements through its Global Go...

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Many women and children were killed in the strike while sleeping at home, with several still trapped under the rubble