At least 36 people, mostly children, have been killed and 50 others injured following heavy rains in Pakistan during the past 48 hours, media reports say. The heavy rains caused houses to collapse and triggered landslides in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces since Thursday. At least 30 rain-related deaths were reported in various areas in More
Pakistani police have reportedly raided the residence of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai. But John Achakzai, former caretaker information minister of Balochistan, rejected the allegation, saying police acted to evict the illegal occupants from a piece of in front of Achakzai’s house. Addressing a press conference at the party’s central secretariat More
The Pakistani parliament on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s 24th prime minister for a second term, three weeks after the Feb. 8 national elections. Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, received 201 votes from the lower house, 32 higher than More
At least 43 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a multi-storey building in Bangladesh, according to a media report on Friday. According to local media, the blaze began in a restaurant at around 22:00 local time on Thursday in the capital, Dhaka. Seventy-five people were rescued and dozens were brought to More
The world’s third-largest and Africa’s largest mosque has been inaugurated in Algeria, says a media report. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Monday officially opened the Grand Mosque of Algiers on the North African nation’s Mediterranean coastline, Al Jazeera reported. It said the mosque had the capacity to accommodate 120,000 worshipers at a time. It is More
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has for the first time confirmed the deaths of 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers in attacks in two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. It’s the first time that Kyiv has confirmed the number of its losses since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Feb. 24, 2022, BBC reported. Zelenskyy said More
Fifteen people have been killed and 44 others wounded in a fire at a residential building in China’s eastern city ofNanjing, media reports said on Saturday. The fire broke out early Friday morning, officials said, with a preliminary investigation suggesting the blaze started on the building’s first floor, where electric bikes had been placed, NCA More
Following 12 days of hobnobbing, Pakistan’s mainstream political parties have agreed to form a new coalition government. Under the agreement, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari will be the prime minister and president respectively. After a flurry of meetings, both sides confirmed reaching an agreement More
A man has shot death 12 members of his family, including his father and brother, in the Kerman province of Iran, media reports said on Monday. “A 30-year-old man, motivated by a family dispute, killed 12 members of his family with a Kalashnikov rifle near the town of Faryab in Kerman province,” the Kerman chief More
The UN secretary-general has asked Hamas and Israel for an immediately ceasefire and unconditional release of all hostages in Gaza. António Guterres wrote on his X handle: “I have repeatedly called for the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages & a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. “That is the only way to massively scale up More
