PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has purchased 50 additional buses for the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system at a cost of Rs2.139 billion, with the total fleet expected to reach 296 once all newly purchased buses are delivered. Provincial Finance Adviser Muzammil Aslam said 25 of the newly purchased […]
John Mearsheimer’s “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” is an unsentimental book. The world, he writes, is too large for any state to become a global hegemon. What states can pursue, and what they reliably do pursue, is regional dominance. India wants that role in South Asia. Size, wealth and […]
RAWALPINDI: Doctors at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi have successfully reattached the completely severed hand of a five-year-old boy from Jhelum in a complex replantation surgery. The child was brought to the hospital on August 28 in critical condition after his hand was completely severed from his body in an […]
KATHMANDU: Devastating floods and mudslides near Nepal’s border with China have killed at least 734 people in Nepal, while 2,498 remain missing, the country’s disaster management authority said on Sunday as rescue operations entered their fifth day. The latest figures pushed the combined death toll from the disaster in Nepal […]
ISLAMABAD: Reports of a possible wedding involving Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have sparked speculation on social media, with claims circulating about a possible engagement and wedding later this year. According to unverified reports, President Asif Ali Zardari had travelled to the country with other family members […]
KARACHI: The mystery surrounding the alleged disappearance of a newborn at a private hospital in Nazimabad has been resolved, with police saying the woman had faked her pregnancy to avoid social pressure and taunts over being childless. According to police, the woman, identified as Zubia, wife of Rashid, was brought […]
ISLAMABAD: At least 25 Pakistani nationals returned home on Saturday after being released from Indian jails, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi confirmed. According to a statement posted by the high commission on X, the Pakistani nationals were repatriated through the Wagah-Attari border. Officials of the Pakistan High Commission […]
ISLAMABAD: An interim inquiry report into the deadly fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) that claimed the lives of 14 newborns has found that the precise source of ignition remains technically unresolved, while clearing frontline clinical staff of abandoning the infants. The four-member inquiry committee, constituted to […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved the immediate suspension and initiation of criminal proceedings against eight people named in the interim inquiry into the deadly fire at the gynaecology ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), which claimed the lives of 14 newborn babies. The decision was […]
MUZAFFARABAD: Barrister Syed Iftikhar Ali Gillani on Friday took oath as the 17th prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), pledging to work tirelessly to fulfil the confidence reposed in him by his party leadership, lawmakers and the people. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had nominated Gillani for the top […]