Pakistan

Nephrologist says tea, coffee cannot replace water, recommends eight to 10 glasses daily

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CCTV footage of arrest from home presented before court as shootout faces scrutiny

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Victim under medical care after suffering electric shocks, acid burns

Cold, foggy conditions persist across the province as winter bites

CM says provincial education, health initiatives serve whole country

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Initiative aimed to facilitate residents during Ramazan

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US envoy says a US-backed surgical operation captured Maduro and his wife as indicted fugitives

Bangladesh Cricket Board refuses to send team to India over security concern

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday visited the Bangladesh High Commission to offer condolences on the demise of former Bangladeshi prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday adjourned until tomorrow the hearing of the case relating to the burning of police vehicles during the May 9 violence in Mughalpura.

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Gives go ahead for 7th KLF, other projects including road repairs

The Balochistan High Court has put on hold a government notification that granted powers under Sections 22-A and 22-B to commissioners and deputy commissioners across the province.

The Sindh Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said on Monday that a major terrorist attack had been averted in Karachi. Addressing a press conference alongside CTD Additional Inspector General (IG) Zulfiqar Ali Larik in Karachi, CTD Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ghulam Azfar Mahesar said that law enforcement agencies and the “premier intelligence agency” received information that terrorists were planning an attack to target the city. Mahesar said that the terrorists were planning to attack specific targets in Karachi to “destabilise” national security. He said that intelligence agencies, the Special Branch, the Intelligence Bureau as well as Sindh and Balochistan CTD designed a strategy to thwart these plans. He said that intelligence officials were deployed in different locations, while focusing on Karachi’s west region. Mahesar said that after several days of robust efforts, officials succeeded in getting information on a terrorist hideout in Raees Goth, Karachi, where terrorists had prepared a large amount...

Landing in my birthplace always gives me the feeling of a tired child resting his head in his mother’s lap, the comfort that says I’m home. This time, the feeling was warmer, for I had brought with me the joy of my son’s wedding to share with my family and friends. It felt like returning to a celebration. But joy in this country is always fragile, more so in the border regions. The minute I touched down in Islamabad, news broke of yet another suicide attack — 12 killed, dozens injured. The headline cut through my heart before I even reached baggage claim. Still, I drove to Peshawar, to my roots. To the soil that has always known both happiness and heartbreak. The walls of Peshawar’s old qahwa khanas tea houses, which once echoed with Rehman Baba’s verses and the faces of film stars, are now filled with Quranic calligraphy, reflecting a changing moral and social landscape. When I reached home, the air was the same as when I left it. Dry, warm, filled with the scent of dust and bright sunshine. Children I once ...