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Quetta: At least one person lost his life, and seven others sustained injuries to Sunday in an explosion aimed at a passenger bus traveling from Khuzdar to Rawalpindi, according to officials. Khuzdar-Vice Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti reported that the bus, on the way along the M-8 Highway, was hit near KHORI, approx. 25 kilometers from

ISLAMABAD: The convoy of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar was attacked on Sunday, injuring two people. However, the speaker remained unharmed. Akbar, who belongs to the PPP, was going to his constituency, Khawara, on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, to attend a political meeting when the incident took place. The

ISLAMABAD: After working for years with the United States to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, Zahra says she was just days away from being evacuated to America when President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions. She sold her belongings as she waited for a flight out of Pakistan, where she has been involved in a three-year

Islamabad: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the presence of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in environmental samples collected from three districts. Sewage samples taken from Thatta, Umerkot and Naushahro Feroze on December 23 and 24, 2024, tested positive for WPV1, sparking renewed concern about the

Islamabad: Women voters in 18% of the local communities in jurisdiction for male and female electoral places in the National Assembly’s constituencies voted differently from their male colleagues during the 2024 parliamentary elections, according to a report published by the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) on Sunday. The report comparing results from male and

The United Nations: Pakistan has called for supporting global policies to enable cash -related developing countries to navigate the energy transition at an event reminded of ‘International Day of Clean Energy’. “Developmental countries with limited fiscal space are unable to invest in expensive energy projects without improved access to funding,” Ambassador Usman Jadoon, deputy permanent

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday demanded that the government immediately and transparently appoint an honest, impartial and neutral Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) in consultation with the PTI to revitalize the election watchdog and ensure continuity of democratic processes. The PTI’s demand has come as incumbent CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja’s tenure expires on January