ISLAMABAD, Sep 15 (ABC): The death toll due to devastating monsoon floods across the country on Thursday surged amid property losses as five more perished in the past 24 hours, taking the total death count to 1,486. Moreover, 12,749 individuals were reported injured since the onset of the rainy season. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued a 24-hour situation …

  SAMARKAND, Sep 15 (ABC): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Thursday met on the sidelines of the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and discussed issues of mutual interest. The meeting focused on strengthening Pak-Uzbek ties in diverse fields for the benefit of the two brotherly nations. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Defence Minister …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 15(ABC): Senior PTI leader Shahbaz Gill has finally been granted bail by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) after repeatedly attempting to get released on bail in the sedition case filed against him. PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s chief of staff Gill has been in detention since last month when he was arrested after a treason case was filed against him for …

KARACHI, Sep 15(ABC): After a 17-year hiatus, the English cricket team is finally visiting Pakistan for a bilateral series. According to sources in the civil aviation, the English cricket team arrived in Karachi on an Emirates flight via Dubai Thursday morning. Police officials said strict security arrangements were made for the visiting team for their drive from the Karachi airport …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 15(ABC): The price of mogas is likely to drop from Rs235.98 per litre to Rs226.36 after a cut of Rs9,62 per litre on September 16 (Friday) for the next fortnight. However, a slight increase of Rs3.04 per litre is expected in the price of diesel, taking the rate up from Rs247.26 per litre to Rs250.30 for the said …

Sep 15(ABC):A former NASA Astronaut confirmed that the colour of the sun is actually white and not yellow. Scott Kelly confirmed the space fact on Twitter after it was shared by an account called “Latest in Space”. While it is actually white, the dwarf star appears yellow because of the earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, once a person surpasses the atmospheric layer …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (ABC): President Dr Arif Alvi has said that as the world stood in unison to celebrate the ‘International Day of Democracy’, Pakistan reiterated its resolve to nurture and strengthen democracy in accordance with the Islamic tenets and the vision of the Founder of the Nation. The president, in his message on the World Democracy Day being observed …

LAHORE, Sep 14 (ABC): Special Assistant to Prime Minister Attaullah Tarar has said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will  form government in Punjab again. Talking to the media after appearing before a court here on Wednesday, he said that he and some PML-N MPAs had been nominated in the Punjab Assembly ruckus case, and they appeared before the court …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (ABC): Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir on Wednesday said that the government  laid a foundation to provide inexpensive electricity to the masses, adding that no new power project would be set up based on imported fuel in future. Addressing a press conference here, the minister said that foundation was being laid for provision an inexpensive electricity in …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (ABC): The by-elections in nine national and three provincial assembly constituencies would be held on October 16, 2022, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Wednesday. Earlier, the ECP had fixed October 9 for holding by-elections in one national and three provincial constituencies, however, later decided to change the polling date as the Eid Milad un …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (ABC): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday ordered the police to conduct a comprehensive investigation regarding the disappearance of a citizen Haseeb Hamza and disposed of his father’s plea for his recovery. Petitioner Zulifqar Ali informed the court that his son, who had reportedly gone missing on August 23,  had returned to his home. His son …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14 (ABC): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday reminded parliamentarians and members of provincial assemblies to submit their annual statements of assets and liabilities, for the fiscal year 2021-22 ending on June 30, by December 31 to avoid suspension of coveted membership. Senators and members of the national and provincial assemblies have also been asked to …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14(ABC): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday appeared before joint investigation team (JIT) in a case related to threatening police officials and a woman judge. According to details, the JIT quizzed Imran Khan for about 20 minutes and later handed him questionnaire consisting of 21 questions. Talking to media persons after his appearance, Imran Khan said …

LAHORE, Sep 14(ABC): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar on Wednesday claimed that an organized campaign is being run against Imran Khan. Addressing a press conference in Lahore, the PTI leader said that a country’s politics is under influence of some rich people and Imran Khan is fighting to end the hold of that small group over the country. …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 14(ABC): Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Miftah Ismail here on Wednesday apprised German Ambassador, Alfred Grannas on the devastation caused by the current floods in Pakistan and the losses it inflicted on country’s economy. According to press statement issued by the finance ministry, the Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany called on the federal minister and during …

SOHBATPUR, Sep 14(ABC): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday warned of a perilous outbreak of water and vector-borne diseases while ordering the rapid dewatering of the flooded areas during his visit to Balochistan’s Sohbatpur district. “Infectious diseases are spreading in the flood-affected areas. Controlling the outbreak is crucial,” the premier said. PM Shehbaz cautioned that dealing with disease outbreak will become difficult if …

WASHINGTON, Sep 14(ABC): The Biden administration has ignored the “strong objections” raised by India over the proposed foreign military sale of $450 million to Pakistan to sustain the Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 programme and notified Congress in this regard. Last week, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) delivered the required certification of this possible sale, angering India who raised the …

SWAT, Sep 14(ABC): Five people embraced martyrdom and several people sustained injuries as a remote-controlled blast ripped through the Kabal tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat region on Tuesday evening. Among the five people who lost their lives, one was identified as Idrees Khan, a member of the peace committee. According to the District Police Officer (DPO) Zahid Marwat, the blast …

Sep 13(ABC): During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made an unexpected finding. When relaxed at room temperature, VO2 has an insulating phase and experiences a sharp insulator-to-metal transition at 68 °C, where its lattice structure changes. According to …

Sep 13(ABC):The newly launched iPhone 14 has an added feature for safety, letting users send SOS messages via satellite when outside of phone service and cell phone reception. Apple announced that the feature will be free for users for two years for iPhone 14 users. iPhone 14 has the unique feature of connecting to satellites with a system that will …

Sep 13(ABC): Zoom Video Communications Inc said it has renamed its chat product and added some features, including third party integration, as it looks to compete with rivals including Microsoft’s Teams and Slack. Zoom’s app, now known as Zoom Team Chat, will also include features such as the ability to share in-meeting chat to Team Chat, schedule a meeting from …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Former prime minister Imran Khan’s proposal to extend the tenure of Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa was rejected by the government on Tuesday. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said the discussion regarding the appointment of the army chief is ‘premature’. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief had proposed an extension in the tenure of the …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): An audit report has revealed that Imran Khan’s government supplied Rs173.74 billion worth of RLNG to Arif Naqvi’s K-Electric without signing an agreement. In July, the British daily Financial Times found that Arif Naqvi, the disgraced founder of Dubai-based Abraaj Group, funded Imran Khan’s party through an offshore firm Wotton Cricket. Naqvi’s Wotton Cricket provided a total of $3 …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): The Islamabad High Court has told the police to recover a missing person by 10am Wednesday. It has also ordered that in the event the missing man is not found the sector commanders of the country’s military and civilian intelligence services must appear before it. The court heard the case of a young man Haseeb Hamza, who …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): The Federal cabinet has rejected to increase retail prices of ten different medicines. The federal cabinet, which met in Islamabad on Tuesday, declined a summary of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination regarding hike in medicines’ price. Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that he did not support the idea of …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged the members of cabinet to come forward to help address the miseries of flood-hit people and enhance the relief and rehabilitation efforts. In his televised remarks, the prime minister urged the ministers to put more focus on helping the poor flood-stricken at this critical time besides fulfilling their official duties. …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday challenged the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) decision in the case of phased acceptance of the resignations given by its 123 members of the National Assembly (MNAs) in the Supreme Court (SC). Making the NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and others respondents in the case, the party …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday castigating PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that he was unable to see the country and people submerged in floods as he only wanted to see himself back in power. In a statement, the minister said that Imran Khan’s real problem was his personal ego, arrogance, self-righteousness, lust for …

Quetta, Sep 13(ABC): Balochistan continues to be devastated by unprecedented rainfall coupled with massive flooding. Eight more people have lost their lives in the province over the past 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll to 278, Geo News reported. At least eight deaths were reported in the rain- and flood-related incidents during the last 24 hours, according to a report …

KARACHI, Sep 13(ABC): Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Tuesday forecast another spell of rains in Sindh in continuation of the existing monsoon season, not long after Pakistan took a break from the torrential rains causing severe flooding across the country. As per the Met department, a low-pressure system located in Indian state of Gujrat has integrated into another low-pressure system …

MILTON KEYNES, Sep 13(ABC): Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. The central premise of autonomous vehicles — that computers and artificial intelligence will dramatically reduce accidents caused by human error — has …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday while raising a question on the appointment of new army chief by those with just 85 seats said that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa should be given extension until the new government is elected. In his exclusive interview with Dunya News …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13(ABC): Former information minister Fawad Chaudhry Monday neither accepted nor denied whether party chairman Imran Khan had a meeting with former US diplomat Robin Raphel at his residence. A day prior, the former prime minister had a meeting with Raphel at his Bani Gala residence in Islamabad,  reported. Speaking during a press conference at the federal capital along with …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (ABC): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that climate change had emerged as one of the most potent challenges facing the world. The flood catastrophe that Pakistan was experiencing was climate-induced, he said, adding the massive economic damage on top of the economic crisis had undermined the country’s capacity to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12(ABC): Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Monday warned about the worsening situation in Sindh, saying River Indus at Kotri Barrage is in a high flood with an in-flow of more than 600,000 cusecs of floodwater, posing a serious threat to the surrounding regions. She further highlighted that rain forecasts have predicted monsoon stretching into September …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (ABC):Minister for Energy Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan on Monday urged the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to avoid wasting billions of rupees on public meetings. He accused while talking to a private television channel that PTI chief Imran Khan was collecting the money through telethon and spending it on public meetings to run the party campaign. People …

FAISALABAD, Sep 12 (ABC): Former state minister and central leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Muhammad Talal Chaudhry said on Monday that level playing field was imperative for fair, free and transparent elections in the country. Talking to the media here on Monday, he said that fair and free elections could not be ensured without providing level playing field to …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (ABC):The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday reserved its verdict over a contempt notice issued to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Fawad Chaudhry and Asad Umer for allegedly speaking against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja. A four-member ECP bench, which heard the case, said it would announce its verdict after examining the replies of PTI’s …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12(ABC): Former Gilgit-Baltistan chief judge Dr Rana Muhammad Shamim on Monday has tendered an unconditional apology to Islamabad High Court (IHC) in contempt of court case. In a surprising turn of events, Rana Shamim has submitted an unconditional apology after he alleged that former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nasir attempted to influence a case against the …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (ABC): President Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday conferred Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) upon Admiral Tan Sri Mohd Reza bin Mohd Sany, Chief of the Royal Malaysian Navy in recognition of his illustrious services to promote bilateral relations between the navies of Pakistan and Malaysia, in a special investiture ceremony held here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.  Admiral Tan Sri Mohd Reza, …