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NAIROBI (Reuters): A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya on Friday, police said. "We saw several children in there that had been burnt," Phillip Gathogo,…

SRINAGAR: The occupation forces in Kashmir have again put senior leader of All Parties Hurriyet Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest. In a social media post, Mirwaiz today said that he was not allowed by the occupation forces…

ISLAMABAD: The nation and the armed forces observed Defense Day on Sept 6th and renewed the pledge to defend the country's geographical, cultural and ideological boundaries against any inimical forces.   Different functions were held in…

LONDON (Reuters): A British man was jailed for nine years on Friday for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers last month, by far the longest sentence imposed over a wave of anti-Muslim riots. Thomas Birley, 27, pleaded guilty to arson…

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the government to remove a sitting general from the post of chairman of national database and registration authority (NADRA) after declaring it illegal. Lt Gen Muhammad Munir Ofsar was…

ISLAMABAD: The supreme court of Pakistan on Friday announced the reserved verdict on PTI founder Imran Khan appeal against amendments made to the national accountability law. The court in its judgement stated that the PTI founder had…

KARACHI: The relatives of the elderly man and his daughter, who were killed in a traffic accident at Karsaz in Karachi weeks ago, have forgiven the errant SUV driver. The driver is currently in jail and besides the accident another case…

GWADAR: A group of people staged a sit-in on the coastal highway in Gwadar early on Friday morning and blocked the busy artery. Ad a result, hundreds of vehicles in local and inter-provincial roads remained stuck abd there were gridlocks.…

ISLAMABAD: President of Google's APAC region Scott Beaumont on Thursday said Google will further increase its investment footprint in Pakistan and support the government’s initiatives of youth’s skills training. Google launched an…

M. Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: The Department of Auqaf, Hajj and Religious Affairs organized the first-ever Ulema conference in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The conference was hosted by the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) with the support of…