KARACHI: Nine ambulances from the Dr. Ruth Pfau Karachi Civil Hospital have been out of service for several months and the hospital administration has not attempted to repair them, sources at the CHK said on Saturday. They said there were 14 ambulances in the hospital for patients and nine of them were out of service […]
A sanitation worker loads garbage into a truck in the Pak Colony area as part of the campaign on Saturday. KARACHI: Sindh's Prime Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, visited the metropolis to review the progress of the garbage collection campaign, called Clean My Karachi, started on Saturday by the provincial government. He directed the city
NEW YORK: Pakistan has expressed its "solidarity" with Saudi Arabia, but has also urged Riyadh not to rush into decisions that may threaten the peace and stability of the region, according to Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi . Prime Minister Imran Khan completed his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday and flew to New
LAHORE: Pakistan defeated its arch-rival India 3-2 to claim 7th place in the Asian Senior Volleyball Championship in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, according to results published by the Pakistan Volleyball Federation. The set points were 25-23, 25-21, 20-25, 19-25, 15-6. Pakistan won seventh place in a 16-team competition and, as a result, the country has
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain and multi-faceted Shahid Afridi has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to show more clarity about Captain Sarfraz Ahmad and announcing that he is the captain of a single series is quite questionable. In an exclusive talk on Dawn news "Replay" sports program, Afridi said: "In my opinion, there must be
ISLAMABAD: The oil import bill registered a sharp decline of more than 26 percent in the first two months of the current fiscal year for a year, data published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed. The data analysis suggests that all groups, including food groups, petroleum products, durable consumer goods and raw materials,
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court office rejected a license request from the principal lawyer Muneer A. Malik, who represents the acting Supreme Court judge, Judge Qazi Faez Isa. The lawyer, who suffered a heart problem on September 17 at night, shortly after attending the hearing of the challenges to the presidential reference against Judge Isa, filed
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Attorney General Anwar Mansoor went to Washington to seek a review of the decision of the International Center for Investment Dispute Settlement (ICSID) imposing a fine of $ 5.9 billion on Pakistan in the case of a mining contract Reko Diq finished. The AG hastened to return to Islamabad from the United States
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in New York on Saturday to highlight the problem of Kashmir in the world parliament, the UN General Assembly. "This is Kashmir's mission for the prime minister and for Pakistan," said Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi. "His message will be clear: the occupation must
LAHORE: Railroad Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday fueled speculation about a possible "agreement" involving the Sharif family, saying that the president of the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif was trying to " Fix things with factual powers "even though former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seemed to be" as stubborn as before. " The
