Pakistan

LAHORE: The Punjab government has made a fitness certificate mandatory for motorbikes across the province to reduce the risk of accidents, Radio Pakistan reported. A law has been amended to allow for the issuance of a one-year fitness certificate following motorcycle testing. The public has been encouraged by the Transport Department to seek a certificate […]

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Says rights bodies current narrative inconsistent with facts

Decides to defer proceedings on five complaints against judges

Minister alleges PTI planning to misuse public funds for its movement

Authorities foil attempt to attack a police station in Lakki

Lawmakers grill planning officials over PSDP priorities

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Lack of investment in processing, rebranding of pink salt has diminished prospects of earning foreign exchange

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A labourer was killed while two others were hospitalised on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district after inhaling toxic gas in an under-construction water well they were working on. The incident occurred in the Dabgay Shamozo area of Utman Khel in Bajaur. Bajaur Rescue 1122 spokesperson Amjad Ali told Dawn.com, “Three labourers were digging a water well in the Dabgay Shamozo area when they suddenly fell unconscious.” He said the Rescue 1122 team responded to the emergency and moved the labourers to the District Headquarters Hospital Bajaur in Khar. He said one of the labourers was declared dead by the doctors in the hospital emergency department while the remaining two were in critical condition. Last month, five men, including a sanitation worker and two brothers, died after inhaling toxic gases in an underground water tank in Karachi’s Ibrahim Hyderi.

Eighth-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland overwhelmed No 13 Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to win her first Wimbledon championship on Saturday in London. It is the sixth Grand Slam singles title for Swiatek, 24, and her first tournament victory since Roland Garros in 2024. She has never lost a Grand Slam final. The lopsided 57-minute result was the first “double bagel” in a major final since Steffi Graff routed Natasha Zvereva 6-0, 6-0 to win the 1988 French Open. It was the first 6-0, 6-0 women’s final at Wimbledon since 1911. “It seems super surreal,” Swiatek said in her on-court interview. “First, I want to congratulate Amanda for an amazing two weeks. You should be proud of the work you are doing, and I hope we will play more finals here.” Anisimova, 23, was appearing in her first major final. She committed five double faults and finished with only eight winners and 28 unforced errors. Swiatek never faced a break point to become Poland’s first Wimbledon singles champion. She converted six of nine break chances and f...

Tajikistani singer Abdu Rozik, famed for his participation in ‘Bigg Boss 16,’ was reportedly detained over theft allegations on Saturday. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu – Click Here According to UAE media outlets, authorities at the Dubai International Airport took the 21-year-old into custody soon after he arrived from Montenegro. The development was confirmed […]

KARACHI: A Passenger, who was mistakenly flown to Jeddah instead of Karachi from Lahore, has issued a legal notice to the management of a private airline, ARY News reported. The affected citizen, Shahzain, maintained in the notice that the airline erroneously transported him from Lahore to Jeddah while he was boarded for Karachi. The citizen […]

National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq reaffirmed Saturday that India’s oppression cannot break the spirit of the Kashmiri people, and Pakistan remains committed to offering steadfast, unequivocal support.

World War II memorial shields and other high-value items were stolen from an office of the director general of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Parks Department in the city’s iconic Frere Hall, it emerged on Saturday. The building, one of the most iconic in the metropolis, was completed in 1865 and a US-funded restoration project was completed last year. A first information report (FIR), available with Dawn.com, was filed under Section 380 (theft in dwelling) of the Pakistan Penal Code by the deputy director of the KMC Parks Department at Artillery Maidan police station on July 7. “The suspects have stolen a DVD player, one speaker, five World War II memorial shields and a cable of precious shield copper,” the FIR read. It claimed that the items were stolen by unidentified burglars, who broke the windows and entered Frere Hall during the Ashura holidays. The complainant said that the DG Parks office had been closed on July 4 at 10pm for the Ashura holidays. When the office re-opened on July 7 at aro...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he might revoke talk show host Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship after she criticised his administration’s handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods, the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media. “Because of the fact that Rosie […]