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ISLAMABAD: As outrage against the motorway gang-rape is intensifying by the day, Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed has been requested to initiate suo motu proceedings to fix responsibility for failing to protect the victim and her two children. The request has been made by a lawyer, Mariam Farid Khawaja, …

KARACHI: At least four people were killed and seven injured after a fire broke out in a three-storey building in the city’s Hijrat Colony area on Saturday. According to rescue sources, five people, including two women and a child, were evacuated from the building. One person — who jumped from …

KARACHI: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday “requested” the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led federal government and Pakistan Peoples Party’s government in Sindh to “maintain the cooperative atmosphere” for at least next three years, which would see the spending of a massive Rs1.1 trillion package for development in Karachi. The president sounded confident …

MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday it would stage massive military drills in the Caucasus later this month with troops from several countries, including Pakistan, China and Iran, invited to participate. More than 12,000 troops will take part in the “Caucasus-2020” war games, which will take place in southern Russia from …

LAHORE: Inspector General of Punjab Police Inam Ghani on Saturday dismissed reports that a suspect in the Lahore motorway rape case had been arrested, terming them as incorrect. “News on the arrest of a suspect on TV channels and social media are incorrect,” said IGP Ghani, adding that he would …

PESHAWAR: A Bus Rapid Transit bus caught fire near Gulbahar area here on Friday. However, no one was hurt in the incident, which is the third of its kind since the inauguration of the mass transit facility on Aug 13. TransPeshawar, a government-owned company managing the BRT operations, claims that …

NEW YORK: The United Nations (UN)’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says there has been a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian houses being demolished by Israel in the occupied West Bank during the coronavirus pandemic. “The period from March to August 2020 saw the demolition …

JERUSALEM: Palestinians have roundly condemned the newly announced agreement on normalizing ties between Israel and Bahrain, saying it is yet another “stab in the back” of Palestine by another Arab country after the occupying regime reached a similar deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last month. On Friday, US …

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has announced the normalization of bilateral ties between Bahrain and the occupying regime of Israel, the second Arab state to join a deal widely censured as a betrayal of the Palestinian nation and the Palestinian cause. Trump said in a tweet on Friday that Bahrain …

SANA’A: Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement has roundly denounced the Arab League over dropping a Palestinian draft resolution in condemnation of a controversial agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, lamenting the “disgraceful” position of the organization and its denial of the Palestinian cause. “We express our strong …