• Kundi slams Punjab govt’s ‘arbitrary ban’ on wheat supply to KP

    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Thursday condemned the Punjab government’s reported ban on wheat supply to his province. Kundi had last week expressed his regret over reports that wheat supply from Punjab had been suspended. However, Punjab officials tasked with maintaining supplies of commodities and regulating their prices denied there was any ban […]

  • Rescuers scramble to save people as rivers reach dangerous levels

    Rescuers backed by the military raced Tuesday to evacuate thousands of people from flooded villages near the city of Jalalpur Pirwala in eastern Pakistan, officials said, as authorities struggled to shore up embankments against rising waters which touched the official danger mark. The flooding has affected nearly 142,000 people in the area, Relief Commissioner Nabil […]

  • Punjab on tenterhooks as India releases more water

    The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued a high alert for the Sutlej river, warning of dangerously rising water levels triggered by ongoing releases from India’s Pong and Bhakra dams. The National Emergencies Operation Center (NEOC) has also sounded a high-level warning, urging communities along the riverbanks to prepare for potential flooding. At Ganda […]

  • Five aftershocks rock parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    A series of aftershocks continued after the magnitude 6 earthquake struck the upper and northern parts of the country, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad, besides Afghanistan, India and Tajikistan, late Sunday night. The first aftershock, measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale, and having a depth of 155 kilometers, struck Peshawar, Mansehra, Swat, Abbottabad, Chitral and Hunza […]

  • Pakistan, OIC launch second special education trainer programme in Karachi

    Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have launched the second cohort of a master-trainer program in special education in Karachi, according to a statement by COMSTECH, the OIC’s ministerial committee on science and technology. The three-month residential program, jointly run with Ida Rieu Schools, a Karachi-based special education institution, aims to build a […]

  • Flood worries push KSE-100 to fifth loss

    The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed heavy selling on Wednesday, as early optimism faded and investors grew cautious. The benchmark KSE-100 index fell 941.03 points, or 0.63%, closing at 147,494.03.Markets initially opened on a positive note, with the index climbing to an intra-day high of 149,238 points. However, news of severe flooding in northern Pakistan shifted investor sentiment sharply during the session.Flood alerts and human and eco