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MASTUNG: Scores of people blocked the Quetta-Karachi highway at Mastung for the second day on Tuesday demanding the recovery of their four relatives. The protesters included women and children. They said they would continue the protest…

SRINAGAR: Four people died and scores of others including several children going to school were missing when a boat ferrying them across the Jhelum river overturned in Srinagar, occupied Kashmir. At least 26 people were on the boat when it…

DUBAI: Scores of people have died in the UAE and other Gulf countries, including nine schoolchildren who were swept away in Oman on Tuesday. The nine schoolchildren were swept away along with their driver in floodwater that also damaged…

ISLAMABAD: A Saudi delegation led by its Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud met President Asif Ali Zardari and congratulated him on his election as president for the second time. President Zardari thanked the delegation…

LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi here said that Pakistan needs stricter laws and regulations to regulate social media. Speaking at a press conference in Lahore, he said that he believes in freedom of expression but there should be…

ISLAMABAD: A commission formed to probe the 2017 sit-in staged in Faizabad Islamabad by a religious group has given a clean chit to former ISI chief Gen Faiz Hamid, according to a report. The commission was formed on the direction of the…

ISLAMABAD: Defense minister Khowaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday said if India shows flexibility on the issue of Kashmir, traders relations between the two neighboring countries can resume. Speaking at a TV program, the defense minister however…

SYDNEY: A Pakistani national was among the six victims who were stabbed to death by a knife-wielding man in Sydney Australia two days back. The Australian Pakistani National Association said Faraz Tahir, 30, identified today. He worked in…

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has approached Iran for the release of two Pakistanis who were on an Israeli container ship seized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday. The ship was seized in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran said it was…

WASHINGTON (Reuters): Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to…