AKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters): A powerful earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude struck off Indonesia s North Sulawesi province on Wednesday, the country s geophysics agency said, adding that there was no tsunami potential. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, however, warned in a bulletin that there was a risk of tsunami waves located within 300 kilometres of the epicentre. The …
PESHAWAR, Jan 18 (EW): Governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Wednesday signed the summary on the dissolution of the provincial assembly on advice of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, mere days after the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly. The governor directed Mahmood Khan to continue working as Acting Chief Minister until the interim government takes office. Governor Ghulam Ali also …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 17 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in an effort to resolve the burning issues with New Delhi, including the Indian Illegaly Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK), asked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to hold serious and sincere talks. Speaking during an interview with Al Arabiya news channel, the prime minister said: “My message to the Indian leadership and Prime Minister …
KATHMANDU, Jan 16 (EW): Rearchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the ATR 72 aircraft, carrying 72 people, to …
KARACHI, Jan 16 (EW): Provincial Election Commissioner Aijaz Anwar Chohan on Monday rubbished the rigging allegations in the local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad divisions due to delay in results, saying that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had a “strict monitoring” mechanism to ensure free and fair elections. The results of the much-delayed local body election’s second phase …
KARACHI, Jan 16 (EW): Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has dominated the local government (LG) polls in Karachi as it leads with 96 UC chairmen seats, as per unofficial and unconfirmed results. As per the unofficial and unconfirmed results of four districts of Karachi, the Pakistan People’s Party is flying-high with 69 UC chairmen seats out of a total of …
A man in his 60s has been arrested in connection with an investigation linked to the discovery of traces of uranium found in a cargo package at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The man was arrested on suspicion of a terror offence on Saturday and was released on bail as part of the investigation, …
Karachi, Jan 16 (EW); As results continue to come out slowly for the local government elections in Karachi, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has denounced the delay while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rejected the results. Addressing a press conference in Karachi, JI Karachi President Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman said: “We are not getting the results from the returning officers (RO) despite over 18 hours of …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (EW): Bilateral talks between Pakistan and Russia are underway while a delegation from Kremlin will visit the South Asian nation on January 17 to discuss oil, LNG deal, and the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project. Reports in local media suggest that Islamabad is set to host a Russian delegation, arriving tomorrow to discuss an oil and LNG …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (AFP) Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that he had the conviction that all the provincial governments, along with the federal government, will continue collaborating to eradicate polio forever. The prime minister inaugurated a three- day nationwide anti-polio drive by administering polio drops to children. In a brief ceremony held here, the prime minister …
