The Foreign Office on Thursday claimed seven Pakistani nationals drowned in a boat wreck near Libya’s port city Benghazi, a few days ago. At a weekly briefing, FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the embassy of Pakistan in Libya was facilitating the process of identification of ...

*An anti-terrorism court in Karachi has sentenced to death two MQM workers, Rehman Bhola and Zubair alias Charya, for setting fire to a garments factory in Baldia Town in 2012 which claimed the lives of 259 people. * MQM leader Rauf Siddiqui has been acquitted in the case over a lack of proof ...

ISLAMABAD-Prime Minister Imran Khan has inaugurated Islamabad Isolation hospital and infectious treatment center. 250 bed state of the art facility has been constructed in record forty days. It will meet additional requirements to ease pressure from capital hospitals. Meanwhile, there has been an ...

ISLAMABAD-There has been an improvement in the number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Pakistan with figure now reaching 145,311. According to National Command and Operation Center, the number of active Covid cases in the country are now 90,554. 3,359 people were tested positive while 24,333 tests ...

NEW DELHI (AA): India’s top court on Tuesday released on bail at least 17 convicts jailed for life for taking part in an anti-Muslim pogrom, local media reported. The Supreme Court of India issued bail orders for the convicts who were found guilty for the 2002 Sardarpura massacre in which 33 ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka has for the first time named a military officer to head the country's main intelligence agency, which was blamed for failing to prevent Islamist extremist bombings in April that killed 259 people. The head of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) was replaced by ...

*ISLAMABAD - At least 193 people lost their lives in the monsoon rains that lashed Pakistan recently, revealed the National Disaster Management Authority Wednesday. * The deceased include 62 children. More than 145 people were injured and 189 houses were destroyed by the rain, the authority’s ...

NEW DELHI – India issued a fresh flood alert Wednesday for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 244. Authorities warned Kerala locals of heavy rainfall over the next 24-48 hours in some of the worst affected regions ...

SOUTHAMPTON - India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the rest of the World Cup with a fractured finger, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced Wednesday. The in-form batsman suffered the break while facing Australia’s Pat Cummins in India’s second match of the ...

ISLAMABAD - The official visits of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to Sri Lanka and the Maldives have been postponed in the light of the recent terror attacks in Sri Lanka. Diplomatic sources have claimed that the visits were deferred due to security concerns in Sri Lanka after a series of ...