Karachi : At least four people died and 15 were hospitalized after inhaling toxic gases emanating from a vegetable container in Pakistan’s port city Karachi, police said. The container was unloaded from a cargo ship in the Kemari port area on Sunday night. “The initial investigation showed that as soon as people from Jackson market […]

Karachi: Pakistan genuinely wants to have peaceful ties with its neighbours, including a “belligerent” India, the country’s Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said, underlining that it takes “two to tango”. Speaking at a seminar here yesterday on ‘Interplay of Economy and Security’, Gen Bajwa also said that the region surrounding Pakistan remains captive […]

Islamabad: Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods across Pakistan have killed 60 people over the past three days, with southern port city of Karachi being worst-hit, officials said today. Most of the people were killed in Karachi where some areas like Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Amroha Society and Saadi Town are still inundated, they said. The deaths occurred […]

London : Tokyo is the world’s most expensive city while Mumbai and Karachi are the joint cheapest locations followed by New Delhi according to an annual survey the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a news wire has reported. Osaka in Japan was ranked the second most expensive. Asia and Australasia account for 11 of the world’s […]

Islamabad : A staggering 2,317 children went missing from Pakistan’s port city of Karachi in 2012, according to a civil society group working to uphold the rights of women and children. Data collected by the Roshni Helpline states it recorded about these children – both boys and girls – missing from the jurisdiction of 106 […]

Karachi : Doctors at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) have successfully operated on a baby boy born with six legs. The operation which lasted more than two hours, ended successfully during which the doctors removed the extra limbs and the baby is now said to be in stable condition. The baby, who was […]

ISLAMABAD: (Provisional News) The black box of the plane which crashed in the northeast part of the Pakistani capital Islamabad Wednesday morning has been found and is being decoded by the Pakistani air forces, reported local media. At about 10:00 am local time Wednesday morning, an airbus 320 with flight number ED-202 carrying 152 people […]