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Representational image. — AFP/File A grenade was thrown at a girls’ school in North Waziristan as the examination for class 12 was underway, police said Monday. The law enforcement agency said no casualties were reported, and following the attack, police personnel reached the site and started an investigation. Talking to …

PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz addressing an election rally in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Leepa, on July 12, 2021. — YouTube/HumNewsLive The country’s  institutions  will soon follow former prime  minister Nawaz Sharif’s narrative, PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz said Monday. “Your enthusiasm is telling me that the lion will roar once again …

Model Nayab Nadeem. LAHORE: Police have decided to involve deceased model Nayab Nadeem’s close friends in her murder probe, after getting ahold of her call records.  The 29-year-old model was found strangled to death Sunday when her stepbrother happened upon her body, at her residence. Police  had said unidentified men …

ISLAMABAD: Police arrested a man outside the Parliament House Monday for brandishing a pistol and a knife, Geo News reported.  The man can be seen in a couple of videos that have now gone viral on social media, carrying a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other.   …

KARACHI: Where the current monsoon season has turned the weather of the country pleasant, it has also wreaked havoc causing a great deal of inconvenience to the citizens. Roads are already flooded and citizens are suffering from power cuts. As rain continues to lash several cities, including Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi arrives in Dushanbe. Radio Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is in Dushanbe to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, as the world grows increasingly alarmed at the conflict in Afghanistan rages on.  FM Qureshi will attend the SCO Foreign Ministers Council. During the …

ISLAMABAD: Fifteen more people have died due to COVID-19 and 1,808 others have tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, with the death toll due to the viral coronavirus infection reaching 22,597. The National Command and Operation Center’s  daily situation report showed that 47,015 samples …

File photo KARACHI: Almost all  of Karachi was without electricity as the first monsoon showers hit the metropolis early Monday. According to Karachi Met Director Sardar Sarfaraz, light to moderate rains may continue intermittently today while heavy showers are expected at night. He said that monsoon winds entered via Indian …

PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. File photo  NEW YORK: PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari arrived in New York Monday to kickstart his seven-day trip to the US, which has triggered criticism and accusations from the federal government.  The PPP leader is on a seven-day ‘private’ tour of the US. Ever since PPP …

Chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar. — AFP/File Chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar on Sunday called on the nation to encourage all those aged 50 or older to get vaccinated at the earliest. “Pakistan has [27 million] people who …