Pakistan

Six people were killed while one person was injured on Sunday amid flash floods and heavy rain across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMA) in both provinces. At least 22 people have been killed and 11 others have been injured in KP in accidents related to rain, strong winds, flash floods and landslides since June 25, according to PDMA reports. Heavy rainfall and flash floods have wreaked havoc in the province, while 18 people were swept away along the Swat River due to a sudden surge in the gushing water. Additionally, PDMA warned on Friday that the risk of glacial lake outburst flood (Glof) — the sudden release of water and debris from a glacial lake — has increased in glacial areas of the province due to increasing temperatures, which in turn has raised the risk of additional flooding. Today’s report from the PDMA outlined that four people were killed in KP while another was injured due to heavy rainfall and flash floods, according to the PDMA’s r...

Israel’s military said it would issue 54,000 call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students following a Supreme Court ruling mandating their conscription and amid growing pressure from reservists stretched by extended deployments. The Supreme Court ruling last year overturned a decades-old exemption for ultra-Orthodox students, a policy established when the community comprised a far smaller […]

The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 67 on Sunday, including 21 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day. Larry Leitha, the Kerr County Sheriff in Texas Hill Country, the epicentre of the flooding, earlier said that the death toll in Kerr County had reached 59, including the 21 children. Leitha said 11 girls and a counsellor remained missing from a summer camp near the Guadalupe River, which broke its banks after torrential rain fell in the central Texas area on Friday, the US Independence Day holiday. A Travis County official said four people had died from the flooding there, with 13 unaccounted for, and officials reported another death in Kendall County. The Burnet County Sheriff’s office reported two fatalities. A woman was found dead in her submerged car in the city of San Angelo in Tom Green County, the police chief said. Leitha said there were 18 adults and four children still pending identification in Kerr County. He did not say if th...

Akash Deep took 10 wickets in a Test match for the first time as India thrashed England by 336 runs at Edgbaston on Sunday for a series-levelling win. Deep was playing in the second Test of the five-match series after India rested outstanding quick Jasprit Bumrah. The 28-year-old took 6-99 as England, set a mammoth 608 runs to win, were dismissed for 271 on the fifth day. Deep’s match figures of 10-147 were far and away the best of his eight-Test career. Jamie Smith was the lone England batter to pass fifty in the second innings, with the wicketkeeper’s 88 following his brilliant 184 not out the first time around. A crushing victory gave India their maiden Test win in nine matches at Edgbaston following seven defeats and a draw at the Birmingham ground. This game was also a personal triumph for India captain Shubman Gill after he became the first batsman in Test cricket to post scores of 250 and 150 in the same match. The 25-year-old’s majestic 269 in the first innings was followed by a dashing 161 off 162 ba...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued a warning for widespread rain, wind, and thundershowers expected across several regions of the country from the night of July 06 to July 10. According to Pakistan’s state-run news agency, the APP, the wet spell is likely to bring heavy to very heavy rainfall at various locations, […]

At least eight people lost their lives in rain-related incidents across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported on Sunday.

It was 3:30am in Khokhar Mohalla, one of Hyderabad’s oldest neighbourhoods, when streams of women clad in black crossed security barriers on July 4. Some carried sleepy toddlers in their arms; others held the hands of young boys or walked alongside their husbands. Men and children also mingled in the growing crowd. They had come together for the cherished ritual of mannat at an Imambargah set in a modest house dating back to 1876. The passageway leading to the entrance was already packed with scores of women. “I couldn’t get in, but my son has gone inside,” said a young woman anxiously. Moments later, her son, Danyal, returned. “I saw the ziarat. Let’s go now,” he told his mother, who had brought him all the way from their home in Qasimabad to seek blessings. “We’re not Shia Muslims — we’re Maulaee,” she clarified with quiet pride, using a term that reflects deep devotion to the fourth caliph of Islam and his family, who were martyred in Karbala in 61 Hijri. The sea of women had gathered to perform the ritual...

TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the United States ahead the social media platform’s planned sale to a group of investors, The Information reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. This comes as US President Donald Trump said on Friday he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal. He said the United States “pretty much” has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app. TikTok has developed a plan to launch the new app in US app stores on September 5, the report said. Last month, Trump extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of TikTok. The report added that TikTok users will eventually have to download the new app to be able to continue using the service, although the existing app will work until March of next year, though the timeline could change. TikTok did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. A deal had been in the works earli...

JERUSALEM, July 6: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he believed his discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday would help advance talks on a Gaza hostage release and ceasefire deal that Israeli negotiators resumed in Qatar on Sunday. Israeli negotiators taking part in the ceasefire talks have clear instructions to achieve a ceasefire […]

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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Four people including two women and a child lost lives while two injured due to rain and flash floods in various incidents occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during last 24 hours.

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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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