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FEROZEWALA:  Three people were burnt to death when a furnace oil factory in Rana Town of Ferozewala near Lahore caught fire on Thursday. According to reports, initially the deceased were unable to be traced after the fire broke out. When Rescue 1122 officials started searching for them, they found the burnt bodies which they shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital. However, the...

RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member of Punjab Assembly (MPA) passed away on Thursday of coronavirus-related complications. Munira Yamin Satti, who was elected to the assembly against a reserved seat from Rawalpindi, was under treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, the government portal keeping track of the outbreak reported 2,482 fresh infections of the coronavirus after...

On a recent chilly winter day in Indian-occupied Kashmir, Mushtaq Ahmed shoveled the earth, laboriously digging a grave for his teenage son. There was, however, nobody to be lowered inside. Stunned, a group of onlookers watched in silence. But Ahmed kept digging, now knee-deep inside the half-dug grave. Then he rose, straightening his back, and faced the crowd, enraged. “I want my...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will move faster than its allies to reconcile with Qatar, sources familiar with the matter said, aiming to impress the incoming Biden administration by ending what the West sees as a parochial dispute that benefits only mutual foe Iran. The rapprochement reduces potential points of friction between Riyadh and a US government sure to be less forgiving...

Facebook Inc and Instagram will extend a ban on US President Donald Trump’s accounts for at least the next two weeks until the presidential transition is completed, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post...

WASHINGTON: “Where are they?” a Trump supporter demanded in a crowd of dozens roaming the halls of the Capitol, bearing Trump flags and pounding on doors. They — lawmakers, staff members and more — were hiding under tables, hunkered in lockdowns, saying prayers and seeing the fruits of the country’s divisions up close and violent. Guns were drawn. A woman was...

Shanghai University organises lecture to mark 70th year of Sino-Pak diplomatic relations LAHORE: Cultural relations between Pakistan and China are need of the hour to broaden the basis of the two countries’ friendship and enhance people-to-people relationship, said an expert during a lecture organised by the Shanghai University, China, under the South Asian Lecture Series to mark the 70th year...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has on Wednesday allowed the nine departments to purchase 70 new vehicles at a cost of Rs358 million despite the financial constraints as well as unavailability of funds from the federal government in terms of net hydel profit. According to the available documents of Finance Department, permission to purchase new vehicles was sought for 13...

ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus pandemic claimed 52 more lives in the country during the past 24 hours, lifting the countrywide death toll from the disease to 10,461. According to the data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), as many as 2,118 more people tested positive for the infection during this period, taking the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases...

ISLAMABAD: The National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) has issued a terror alert for Karachi, warning that terrorists-backed by foreign agencies have planned to attack key installations in the city. The handout issued by the NACTA read that key government buildings or installations could be targeted in the attack by foreign-backed terror elements. “The preparation for an attack in Karachi has been completed,”...

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Dr Moeed Yousuf has said that Pakistan has the potential to become the hub of regional trade due to its geo-economic location. Chairing the 8th advisory board meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) on Wednesday, he said, “We should exploit our economic position by making partnership with the world.” He said...

GWADAR: President Dr Arif Alvi has underlined the need to utilise Gwadar Port free zone area for transit trade with Afghanistan in addition to Karachi ports. The president gave these remarks at a briefing on progress work about the master plan of Gwadar city and operationalisation of Gwadar Port on Wednesday. He said that the speedy flow of traffic at Gwadar port...