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A Pakistan Railways train travelling on a rail network in Pakistan. — APP/File LAHORE: Pakistan Railways has notified a ticket price cut for several categories of the passenger trains across the country, just weeks after announcing a fare hike. The reduced fares, announced for making the travel by train more affordable and accessible to the … Read more

A car is trapped in a flooded road after record-breaking rains hit Lahore on August 1, 2024. — APP LAHORE: Heavy monsoon rainfall on Thursday broke 44-year record in Lahore and left at least four people dead and seven others wounded with hospitals flooded, power interrupted and streets submerged in the metropolis home to 13 … Read more

Slain Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif. — Arshad Sharif/Facebook The Supreme Court’s three-member Practice and Procedure committee has formed a larger bench to hear the suo motu case of the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif who was shot down by the Kenyan police at a roadblock in the Kajiado town nearly two years ago. The development … Read more

Slain Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif. — Arshad Sharif/Facebook The Supreme Court’s three-member Practice and Procedure committee has formed a larger bench to hear the suo motu case of the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif who was shot down by the Kenyan police at a roadblock in the Kajiado town nearly two years ago. The development … Read more

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: All the government schools and educational institutions in the federal capital will operate on Saturday as the authorities have decided to abolish the weekly off on the weekend. A notification issued by the Ministry of Education … Read more

People from the Baloch community take part in a demonstration in Balochistan’s Gwadar on July 28, 2024. — AFP GWADAR: The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) activists have called off their sit-in after successful negotiations with officials of the local administration in Gwadar district on Thursday night. BYC announced ending its sit-ins in Gwadar and across the … Read more

State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel speaks during a presser. — Screengrab via YouTube/US Department of State After the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) revealed the use of Afghan soil for terror activities in its report, Washington said it is working to ensure that Afghanistan never serves as a “launching pad for terrorist attacks” against the … Read more

Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman addresses a press conference in Karachi on October 18, 2022. — Facebook/JI  Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman, the emir of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), ruled out the possibility of joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) proposed grand alliance, pointing out that past experience shows these alliances are often driven by the self-serving … Read more

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a cabinet meeting in Islamabad on August 2, 2024. — Screengrab via YouTube/Geo News As protests against the inflated power bills continue across the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Friday said it was the government’s agenda to reduce the cost of electricity, urging against politicising the issue. “Politics on … Read more

PTI Information Secretary Raoof Hasan walks as he is presented before a court for a hearing in Islamabad on July 23, 2024. — Geo News ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in the federal capital extended Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Information Secretary Raoof Hasan’s physical remand by one more day in a terrorism case.  The reserved verdict … Read more