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ISLAMABAD: Thousands of employees of the utility stores corporation of Pakistan launched a protest sit-in in Islamabad on Monday.  The protest has been started after the federal government decided to close all the utility stores across the…

MULTAN: While power consumers in Pakistan have been  up in arms over inflated bills and repeated increase in government taxes, the power minister today offered to the consumers to replace their old metres with prepaid ones. Minister Owais…

QUETTA: Armed people blocked a highway in Musakhel town of Balochistan and shot dead at least 23 passengers after dragging them down from buses. According to media reports on Monday morning, armed men occupied roads and highways in…

CAIRO: Even after so many months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems not ready to go for a ceasefire in  Gaza that has left over 40,000 people dead according to the Palestinian health authorities. Israel launched the war in…

SRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiris, mostly youth and political activists, are facing inhuman treatment in different jails of India after the occupation forces arrested them on flimsy and concocted charges. During the last many years, Indian…

RAWALPINDI: As many as 29 passengers lost their lives and three others were injured when a bus they were travelling in fell into a ravine near Rawalpindi on Sunday. Police said that 32 passengers were travelling in the bus en route to…

RAWALPINDI: The cricket team of Bangladesh won the first Test match against Pakistan at the Pindi cricket ground on the final and fifth day of the match. On the last day of the match, Pakistan was all out after scoring 146 runs and giving…

ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is yet to decide about attending the Shanghai Cooperation Council meeting to be held in Islamabad later this year.  According to media reports, Pakistan has extended an invitation to the…

BEIRUT: Hizbullah has claimed that it fired over 300 rockets and drones laden with explosives on Israeli installations last night.  The militant group said that the attacks were carried out to take revenge of the killing of its commander…

LAHORE: In another road traffic accident, 10 Pakistani pilgrims lost their lives while returning from Iran on Makran coastal highway this morning. Police in the area said that 30 pilgrims were also injured in the accident. The police said…