Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) Three people have been killed and 14 others injured in rain-related incidents in Peshawar, Mohmand and Nowshera districts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local media reported on Thursday. Rescue 1122 spokesman Bilal Ahmad Faizi said that a child died and two others were injured in a roof collapse incident in Mattani area of Peshawar, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported. The rescue workers took the injured people to the hospital. He further mentioned that p…
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Islamabad, April 5 (IANS) At least 45 people were killed and 105 others injured after heavy rains caused roof and wall collapses across several parts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since March-end, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority’s (PDMA) latest report issued on Sunday quoting media reports. In its latest report, PDMA said that casualties were caused due to roof and wall collapse amid heavy rains across several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The PDMA said the deceas…
Islamabad, March 17 (IANS) A car worth Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 90 million has been bought for Pakistan’s Senate Chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani from the Senate’s budget even as a majority of the country’s population battles rising inflation, the local media reported.According to sources, the vehicle was purchased from the Senate budget and has already arrived at the Pakistan’s Senate Secretariat. When asked about the purchase, Gilani, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, said that the car has already…
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) Several key roads in Pakistan’s Karachi remained shut on Wednesday for the third consecutive day due to the prevailing security situation after protests were held following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, local media reported. As many as 11 protesters were killed while several others were injured in Karachi during the protest held outside the US Consulate after Khamenei’s death.Barriers have been placed at the railway crossing at Mai Kolachi…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) At least three Federal Constabulary (FC) men were killed when an ambulance carrying injured personnel came under attack in the Badrakhail area of Karak in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local media reported citing regional police authorities. The personnel were injured in a quadcopter attack on an FC post in the Dargah Shaheedan area this morning and were being transported to a hospital for treatment when the attack took place, the District Police Officer (DPO) …
Islamabad, Feb 21 (IANS) Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s position “was at risk”, describing his recently announced ‘Release Imran Khan Force’ as “unconstitutional and illegal”, local media reported.”The KP chief minister announced the release force to save his job. Except for the federal government, no one has the right to create any force,” leading Pakistani media outlet Geo News quoted Asif as saying.The Defence Mi…
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The protest, led by senior leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and members of the opposition alliance, the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan (TTAP), entered its fifth day on Tuesday, local media reported. Senior PTI leaders said on Tuesday that the party’s sit-in over concerns regarding former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s health condition would continue, Pakistan-based Geo News reported.While speaking outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House in Islamabad, the provi…
Quetta, Feb 16 (IANS) Majlis Wahdat-i-Mulimeen’s (MWM) provincial leader Allama Ali Hasnain Husaini slammed the Pakistani government over its response to peaceful sit-ins led by top opposition leaders and stressed that authorities would face full responsibility if the protesters face any harm, local media reported on Monday. Husaini criticised the denial of food, water and essential medicines to Senate Opposition leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri and National Assembly Opposition Leader Mahmoo…
Islamabad, Feb 12 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a medical report submitted to the Supreme Court, has claimed that he has only 15 per cent vision left in his right eye, local media reported on Thursday. A seven-page report submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawyer Salman Safdar to the Supreme Court regarding his visit to Adiala Jail stated, “According to the Petitioner [Imran], he was diagnosed with a blood clot that caused severe damage, and despite the treatment …
Islamabad, Feb 6 (IANS) Over 15 people were killed and more than 80 injured after a powerful explosion rocked an imambargah in Islamabad’s Tarlai area during Friday prayers, triggering massive panic in the Pakistani capital local media reported. “The death toll from the explosion in the federal capital has risen to 15, according to a spokesperson for the District Administration. The spokesperson further confirmed that the number of patients brought to various hospitals across the city has now ex…