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  • Pakistan International Airlines Airbus flying Lahore-Karachi crashes

    KARACHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft with more than 90 passengers and eight crew members on board crashed near Jinnah International Airport on Friday. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials confirmed the national flag carrier’s flight PK-8303 that was flying from Lahore to Karachi crashed in Model Colony. The plane crashed moments before expected landing at…

  • 2 Pakistani girls killed for ”honour” over leaked mobile video

     Two Pakistani teenage girls have been shot dead over a mobile phone video in a remote backward North and South Waziristan tribal region, which was once the stronghold of Taliban. They are said to have been shot dead by a family member earlier this week in a village on the border of the North and…

  • Karachi braces for heat wave amid virus lockdown

    Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast that a heatwave will sweep over urban areas of Sindh, including Karachi and Hyderabad, from Tuesday through to Friday, Geo News reported. The PMD claimed that the mercury was expected to touch up to 40 degrees Celsius in the port city during the heat wave. Weather would remain hot and dry,…

  • ‘Buy a mask or food?’: South Asia’s poor face stark choice

    Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one – that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan, an Afghan labourer whose daily earnings have fallen below $1.50 during the coronavirus pandemic, reports Thomson Reuters Foundation. Like many poor South Asians, Khan has…

  • Missing Pakistani journalist found dead in Sweden

    ISLAMABAD—Sajid Hussain, 39, a journalist from Balochistan, who went missing on March 2 in Sweden, was found dead on Thursday. Reports said Hussain’s body was recovered from a river in Uppsala. According to Balochistan Times, “Sajid Hussain, the editor-in-chief of Balochistan Times, is no more. The Swedish police informed his family last night on (Thursday)…

  • COVID-19: Panic in hospital because nearly 400 health workers contract corona virus in Pakistan

    Panic spread in hospitals as nearly 400 healthcare workers have contracted coronavirus in Pakistan, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report. The report says that at least five medics including doctors have died due to COVID-19 in Pakistan. Providing a further breakdown, it records that 132 health care providers have been hospitalised, while 152…

  • India and Pakistan ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions

    NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: The Indian government allowed a limited reopening of shops in neighborhoods and residential areas from Saturday, more than a month after the nation went into a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, officials said. Late on Friday, the federal home ministry said retail shops could start operations with the staff number…

  • Virus kills over 100 Pakistanis in New York

    WASHINGTON: There are more than one hundred Pakistanis among the 8,000 people who have died of the coronavirus in the New York region, officials said. There are more than one hundred Pakistanis among the 8,600 people who have died of the coronavirus in the New York region, officials said. A total of 86 people have…

  • Karachi’s 11 union councils sealed over coronavirus concerns

    KARACHI: The city’s deputy commissioner on Saturday ordered the closure of 11 areas of the metropolis where coronavirus patients had been identified as Sindh’s infected tally continues to surge. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah said that the province is presenting a dismal picture in terms of new coronavirus cases and death toll…

  • Coronavirus: Mother of five killed by Covid-19

    LONDON: A mother of five who was a respected councillor has died after contracting Covid-19 during a trip to Pakistan. Shabnum Sadiq, who served on Slough Borough Council, died on April 6 after suffering “complications” from the virus. She leaves behind her husband and five children including 13-year-old quads. She had travelled to Pakistan in…