KARACHI Top Stories

India Navy to muscle up as Pak gets Chinese submarines
INDIA-NAVY-PARADE-REASALIndia Navy Jawan Parade Reasal at Red Road during the Parade Reasal in Kolkata in Eastern India City ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
WN / Bhaskar Mallick
2023-09-24, Hindustan Times
With Pakistan soon to acquire eight Chinese Yuan class submarines between 2023-2028, pressure has mounted on Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (MDL) to conclude a deal for...
Slavery is back in Pakistan, thanks to climate change
People wait for their turn to receive free food distributed by volunteers outside a camp for internally displaced people from coastal areas, as Cyclone Biparjoy was approaching, in Sujawal, Pakistan's southern district in the Sindh province, Thursday, June 15, 2023.
AP / Pervez Masih
2023-09-01, Al Jazeera
This spring, I spent time with farming families across rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan, the two worst-hit regions by last summer’s super floods that...
Pakistan comes down hard on Church attackers, 600 booked
Paramilitary troops patrol after an angry Muslim mob attacked a Christian area in Jaranwala in the Faisalabad district, Pakistan
AP / K.M. Chaudary
2023-08-17, Anadolu Agency
Pakistani police on Thursday booked over 600 people on the charge of ransacking multiple churches and attacking properties of Christian minorities in Jaranwala town of...
CDA beyond domain2023-09-25
Dawn: THE way government departments review their shortcomings and the solutions they devise to address them invariably defy logic. Someone at the Capital Development Authority (CDA) observed the cumbersome, time-consuming, multi-step, arbitrary building approval...
BARRICADES NEAR HOSPITAL2023-09-25
Dawn: BARRICADES NEAR HOSPITAL: Traffic police barricades placed in front of hospitals, especially the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, are nothing but a hassle. The traffic police use such barricades to issue challans over frivolous charges, harassing patients and their...
Breaking News LIVE: Indian 10m air rifle team clinches gold with world record score2023-09-25
Financial Express: Breaking News On September 25: Parneet Kumar, representing Team Chaturbhuj said, “As we all know ISRO made a new record of landing on the South Pole (of the lunar surface), so we wanted to make a small dedication to ISRO. We made a Ganesh pandal...
‘All parties free to contest polls’2023-09-25
Dawn: KARACHI: Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi said on Sunday that all political parties will have complete freedom to participate in the general elections. During his speech at Radio PakistanKarachi, he emphasised that, as per...
PNS Babur commissioning ceremony held in Turkiye2023-09-25
Dawn: KARACHI: The commissioning ceremony of the first Pakistan Navy MILGEM class corvette PNS Babur was held at the Istanbul Naval Shipyard in Turkiye on Sunday. MILGEM class corvette are small warships. They are the most technologically advanced and...
Pakistan’s 40% population lives below poverty line: World Bank2023-09-25
Hindustan Times: Pakistan’s 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, as per the World Bank, Dawn reported. Supporters of Pakistan's Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami protest against rise in price of petrol in Karachi.(AFP) Dawn is a Pakistani...
Finance minister meets Sindh governor, PBC members separately2023-09-25
The News International: In the first meeting, both Dr. Shamshad and SindhGovernor Tessori discussed the economic challenges, strategies to improve the economic situation, measures to increase exports and investments and other issues of mutual interest. The...
31 injured in Sheikhupura train collision2023-09-25
The News International: A representational image shows Police and emergency services at the scene in Sheikhupura after a train accident. — X/XHNews SHEIKHUPURA: At least 31 passengers were injured on Sunday after two trains collided near Qila Sattar ShahStation in Sheikhupura...
ECP order ‘to freeze only Sindh’s development funds’ slammed2023-09-25
The News International: The elected leadership of the local government agencies from various cities and towns of Sindh belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to immediately withdraw its decision to freeze the development...
Back-to-back comedies amuse audience at Pakistan Theatre Festival2023-09-25
The News International: The PakistanTheatreFestival treated the audience to a laughter fest on Sunday by staging two comedies. The first one was ‘Gadha Mandi’, which was a short play that ended in an hour. The other one, ‘Dinner with Darling’, spanned around two hours. The...
JI announces support for protesting KU teachers2023-09-25
The News International: Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) EmirHafiz Naeemur Rehman has announced his complete support for the teachers association of the University of Karachi (KU) in...
Navy employee, minor daughter shot dead2023-09-25
The News International: An employee of the Pakistan Navy and his minor daughter were killed in a firing incident in the Korangi area on Sunday night. Meanwhile, in firing incidents in other areas of the city, four persons, including a...
Landlords ruling country not concerned about people: MQM-P2023-09-25
The News International: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) convener said on Sunday that those who have been ruling over Pakistan for 75 years are not concerned about the problems being faced by people because the rulers are a group of landlords. Dr Khalid Maqbool...
SSWAB Trust celebrates 15 years of providing free dialysis2023-09-25
The News International: The SSWAB Trust, which runs a free-of-charge kidney care and dialysis centre in Karachi, celebrated their 15th anniversary at a hotel on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, the trust’s founding president Prof Dr Waqar Hussain Kazmi said that he had started this...