KARACHI: At least nine suspects, including four women, were arrested late Sunday night as police raided massage centres in posh areas of the mega city. Two massage centres were also sealed. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from one massage centre. Some of the accomplices of the suspects managed to escape during the raids and...
KARACHI: Four members of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) employees, who were kidnapped by unidentified people on Wednesday, were released and came to their houses on early Monday morning as flight operations partially resumed. JAC leader and People’s Unity (PU) President Hidayatullah Khan, PU Vice President Zameer Chandio, Saifullah and...
NEW DELHI: In what could pose a significant challenge for India to meet its ambitious target of ending AIDS by 2030, women continue to account for more than 40% of people living with HIV infection in the country. The share of women is crucial because of risk of transmission from pregnant women, uneducated and unaware...
MUMBAI: LeT ‘terrorists’ attempted to attack Mumbai twice before the 26/11 strikes that killed 166 people but failed both times, key accused and Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley told a local court on Monday. The first attempt to strike India’s financial capital was made in September 2008 but the boat used by the extremists to...
NEW DELHI: The match-fixing allegations are not a new thing in cricket and this time India ODI skipper MS Dhoni seem to have found himself in the middle of a recent expose. In a startling revelation, DDCA secretary and then Team India manager Sunil Dev claimed that India-England fourth Test played in Manchester in 2014...
SRINAGAR: In December 2012, when the whole India was rocked by the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic in Delhi, a young Kashmiri social activist, Samreena Mushtaq, called up her friend Essar Batool and asked anxiously, “Do you remember Kunan Poshpora?” On the night of February 23, 1991, personnel of the 4 Rajputana Rifles of...
BEIJING: A second survivor was rescued on Monday morning from under the debris of a collapsed residential building in southern Taiwan some 56 hours after a 6.7-magnitude quake struck, Peoples Daily reported. The man, identified as Li Tsung-tian, was conscious and talking to rescuers when descended from the toppled Wei Guan building in Yongkang District...
NANNING: Two persons were confirmed dead and four others were missing after a landslide destroyed a building in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Monday morning, Peoples Daily reported. Emergency response office in Du’an Yao Autonomous County under Hechi city received information in the wee hours of Monday that a two-story building in Fude...
KARACHI: Bullet riddled body of an official of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was recovered from a vehicle in Karachi. Interior Minister takes the notice, directs for inquiry. Director FIA Sindh, Shahid Hayat said that body of FIA official Muhammad Ali was found in a vehicle parked at Lyari Expressway. Official weapons were also found with...
MANDI BAHAUDDIN: A woman died while another person was injured in a road accident here on Sunday evening. Rescue sources said that an over speeding jeep knocked down a motorcycle carrying two people at Rasool Road near Mong area of Mandi Bahauddin resulting in death of motorcyclist woman and leaving another injured. The jeep driver...