Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the completion of upgradation work on the Murree Expressway and announced additional facilities, including more rest house on both sides, to further improve travel convenience.

ISLAMABAD - Christians in Pakistan and around the world are celebrating Easter on Sunday with religious devotion and traditional ceremonies.

PESHAWAR - At least 45 people have been killed and 105 injured after heavy rains triggered roof and wall collapses across multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since March 25, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar on Sunday announced that Pakistani security forces had killed 796 Afghan Taliban fighters and militants and injured over 1,043 during the ongoing Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, launched in response to cross-border hostilities.

LAHORE - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting in Lahore to review progress on the government’s fuel subsidy programme, introduced in response to recent regional tensions, reaffirming his commitment to shielding the public from rising costs.

Peshawar - Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi, here on Sunday met with leaders of the national peace jirga in Bajaur to discuss the overall security situation and efforts for lasting peace in the region.

Karachi - Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday announced a major relief initiative for the public, securing a province-wide fare freeze after successful negotiations with transporters, alongside a targeted subsidy programme to offset the impact of soaring fuel prices.

KARACHI: Police on Sunday detained 23 PTI leaders and workers, including two former lawmakers, after they clashed with the police near Karachi Press Club (KPC), an official said. PTI workers and supporters had gathered at the spot to hold a demonstration against rising fuel prices. The PTI had announced a protest outside KPC at 4pm today against “rising inflation in the country and the increase in prices of petroleum products to record levels”. But the situation turned violent, with the PTI alleging that police subjected the protesters to violence. The PTI’s Sindh chapter shared a video on X showing policewomen dragging women. “Women participating in the protest against inflation were beaten and arrested,” the party alleged. But, in a video statement, South Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mahzor Ali said “some miscreants” pelted stones at police personnel, who were deployed to “control law and order”. He added that the police responded to the pelting through “shelling and baton-charge”. Responding to a ...

LAKKI MARWAT: Police registered on Sunday a first information report (FIR) against unidentified suspects for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in the Langerkhel Hathi Khan area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district. The FIR, registered on behalf of the girl’s father at the Lakki city police station, invokes Sections 302 (intentional murder), 364-A (kidnapping/abducting a minor) and 376 (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code. According to the FIR, the girl had gone missing on April 3 (Friday), following which her family began searching for her. It said that the girl’s body was found in a reed forest located around two kilometres away from her village. It quoted the complainant as saying that the girl’s “half-naked body was found on Sunday”. Aliullah, 32, father of the victim, told police in his preliminary report that during a search, they found the half-naked body of his daughter in the nearby forest on Sunday. The body was taken to the Government City Hospital where a lady doctor...

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Sunday predicted widespread rain and thunderstorms in northeast Balochistan, lower Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and south Punjab on April 6 (Monday). In a statement, the Met Office said, “Widespread rain-windstorm/thunderstorm (with isolated heavyfalls and hailstorm) is expected in northeast Balochistan, lower Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and south Punjab, while partly cloudy weather with rain windstorm/thunderstorm is likely at isolated places in Sindh, upper/central Punjab, south/central Balochistan, upper KP, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during evening/night of Monday.” The Met Office also issued a warning, saying there were chances of flash floods in local nullahs or streams in northeast Balochistan, lower KP and hill torrents of Punjab’s Dera Ghazi Khan on April 6 due to heavy rainfall. It said that landslides and flash flooding could also occur in local nullahs or streams of Kashmir, upper KP, Murree and Galiyat on April 7 and 8. “Windstorm/ hailstorm and lightning may damage wea...

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