ISLAMABD, dec 27 (EW): After a suicide attack that rocked the federal capital, the Islamabad Police Tuesday issued a “special security plan” considering the current security situation. While sharing the plan on Twitter, the law enforcement agency said that at least 25 temporary security check posts have been established at different locations in Islamabad. The authorities will be using …
JEDDAH, Dec 26 (EW): The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday condemned the Afghan Taliban’s announcement, which ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to stop their women staff from working, saying that the ban is “self-defeating and disserving the interests of Afghan people”. The statement issued on the cooperation’s official Twitter handle stated that OIC Secretary-General, …
NEW YORK, Dec 26 (AFP): More than 200,000 Americans woke up without power on Christmas morning as a days-long winter megastorm that hammered several eastern US states on Sunday left more than 20 people dead. The extreme weather, a mix of prolonged blizzards and historic cold, plunged wind chill temperatures in all 48 contiguous US states below freezing this …
LAHORE, Dec 23 (EW): The Lahore High Court (LHC) will hear a petition filed by PML-Q leader Parvez Elahi challenging the denotification order of Punjab Governor Baligh Ur Rehman today. A five-member bench headed by Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh has been formed by the LHC chief justice. In the petition, Elahi has appealed to the court to declare the …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23 (EW): A suspected suicide car bomb exploded in Islamabad’s Sector 1-10 on Friday and at least one police official was martyred in the attack. Police sources said the explosion occurred after they stopped a taxi and began searching it. According to preliminary information, at least four other officers were injured in the explosion and have been taken …
LAHORE, Dec 22 (FD): The political crisis in Punjab has intensified as Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Thursday that Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman is likely to issue the notification to denotify Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi today. Talking to media outside Punjab Governor House, Rana Sanaullah said that Pervaiz Elahi was no more the executive of the province …
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made it clear that the state will not surrender or bow down before any terrorist outfit or organisation after 25 terrorists were killed in an operation in Bannu. A hostage crisis took place at the Counter-Terrorism Department’s (CTD) compound in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when TTP terrorists took over the center and made several security personnel …
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (EW): The World Bank has approved $1.692 billion in financing for five projects to support people living in the flood-affected areas of southeastern Sindh province of Pakistan. Three projects support rehabilitation and housing reconstruction and the restoration of crop production for vulnerable communities, while another two projects support health services for mothers and children, the WB …
UNITED NATIONS,Dec 20 (Reuters): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a “no-nonsense” climate ambition summit in September next year and warned on Monday that there will be “no room for back-sliders, greenwashers, blame-shifters” or a repackaging of old pledges. In a wide-ranging news conference to close out 2022, Guterres also said that he “will not relent in the …
KARACHI, Dec 20 (EW): Men in Green have been whitewashed in a Test series on home soil after England beat it by 8 wickets in the third Test in Karachi on Tuesday. Confident visitors completed the whitewash by winning the final test match by eight wickets. England needed only 55 more runs on the fourth day while chasing 167. …
