5 of a family killed, 3 injured as jeep plunges into ravine in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: officials
According to the Alpuri Station House Officer, two of them succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital.
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No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for over 3 weeks: UNRWA chief
In a post on X, the agency’s commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini, noted that “this is longest that Gaza has been without any supplies since the war began.”
Amnesty demands end to ‘systematic attacks, relentless crackdown’ on Pakistan’s Baloch activists
Last Friday police used tear gas, water cannons, and blank shots to disperse Baloch Yakjehti Committee protesters staging a sit-in in Quetta, with both the provincial government…
Sifting through the good, the bad and the ugly of Urdu slang and colloquialism is an uphill task
Despite their rather blunt, offensive or closer-to-offensive nature, the perennial popularity and strength of colloquialisms lie in their never-ending capacity and elasticity.
Pakistani YouTuber booked under blasphemy over perfume launch
In a recent video, since deleted from his social media accounts, Rajab Butt launched his “295” perfume which refers to the namesake blasphemy law in the Pakistan Penal Code.
In Pakistan, Sindh government detains human rights committee leader, others following group’s protest in Karachi
The Sindh government on Tuesday detained Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leader Sammi Deen Baloch and four others for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
Climate action: Dawn
Despite contributing less than 1 percent to GHG emissions, Pakistan is among the nations most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. In fact, the Global Climate Risk Index…
X sues Modi’s government over content removal in new India censorship fight
The lawsuit also comes as Elon Musk is getting closer to launching his other key ventures Starlink and Tesla in India.
Pakistan FO rubbishes India’s ‘unwarranted assertions’, says it has no right to blame UNSC for Kashmir resolutions
Earlier this month, the FO spokesperson had similarly rejected remarks made by Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Azad Jammu and Kashmir as “baseless claims”…
Why farmers in Pakistan’s Sindh are up in arms over the Cholistan canal project
"On the one hand, fertile farmland is being swallowed up by luxury housing schemes. On the other, farmers are being driven further from their livelihoods. How can we justify…