Three young boys in the vehicle and two pedestrians lose their lives in early-morning crash on Harbanspura Road; CTO Lahore seeks report from SSP City Zone LAHORE: Five people were killed on Saturday morning when a speeding car went out of control and slammed into pedestrians walking along the footpath near the Taj Bagh U-turn...
LAHORE: The investigation into the killing of PTI leader Abdullah Tahir has widened into a facilitation network, with police detaining the victim’s driver, the alleged spotter and the men who arranged the getaway vehicle. Police detained the driver, Asghar, and seized his mobile phone. According to police sources, questioning produced the case’s central disclosure: Asghar...
GENEVA: Periods of extreme heat are becoming more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting as climate change warms the planet, the UN weather agency said on Tuesday — and it made the point by reaching back to the famously hot European summer of 1976. Parts of Europe are currently enduring their fifth heatwave of a summer...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday, in an effort to revive Pakistan’s stalled mediation between Iran and the United States. Naqvi was received on arrival by his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni before holding talks with Araghchi. A diplomatic source told Dawn from...
MIAMI: New research suggests the strongest predictor of how much screen time a young child gets may not be the child at all — it may be how stressed the parent is. Researchers at the Center for Children and Families at Florida International University surveyed 822 caregivers raising children aged four to eight, collecting online...
ISLAMABAD: A United States report has called for strengthening parliamentary oversight of Pakistan’s public finances, arguing that legislators and the public need earlier, fuller access to fiscal information. The report says timely access to the proposed budget is important so that spending and revenue priorities can be publicly scrutinised before formal approval — rather than...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday condemned a Houthi attack on a commercial vessel in the southern Red Sea that killed three Pakistani nationals and injured a fourth, as Gulf and Red Sea shipping came under a widening pattern of assault. The vessel was identified as the Tihamah, an Egyptian-owned, Tanzania-flagged small cargo ship, struck on Tuesday...