Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A day after a Sri Lanka factory manager was beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob who accused him of blasphemy, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry Saturday said “time bombs [of religious fanaticism] planted in society will continue to explode if [they are] not defused”. …

SIALKOT: Two key suspects have ‘confessed’ to their involvement in the torture and killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager, well-placed. During initial interrogation, two suspects, identified as Farhan and Talha, ‘admitted’ their role in the brutal attack on the foreign national, police said. A day earlier, Priyantha Kumara, who …

LAHORE: State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Saturday that exemplary punishment would be awarded to the culprits of the Sialkot incident to check the recurrence of such incidents in the future. Talking to the media, he said the police had arrested two main accused of the …

LAHORE: A first information report (FIR) was registered Saturday against 40 students of the University of the Punjab on charges of ransacking the offices of the vice chancellor, registrar, and public relations officer (PRO). A spokesperson of the institute said two groups of student unions — Jamaat-i-Islami-affiliated Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba and Punjabi …

LAHORE: Teen mountaineer Shehroze Kashif faced many dangers climbing the planet’s tallest peaks, but his toughest moment came when he passed the corpse of his hero on the savage slopes of K2. Kashif was 19 years and 138 days old when in July he became the youngest person to summit …

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad on Saturday approved a two-day transit remand of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani in a case pertaining to assets beyond declared income. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MP was produced before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court a day after the dirty money …

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) received on Saturday $3 billion as a loan from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin confirmed the central bank has received the loan amount. “Good news, US$3 billion Saudi deposit received by SBP,” he tweeted, …

SIALKOT: Police have registered a case against hundreds of unidentified people after a mob of factory workers lynched their Sri Lankan manager in Sialkot. The FIR was lodged against 800 to 900 unidentified people at Uggoki police station under sections of terrorism, attempt to murder, plot to murder, desecration of …

LAHORE: The Chief Election Commissioner, Sikandar Sultan Raja, has said that the best possible arrangements in NA-133 have been made in cooperation with the government and Punjab Rangers for the by-election scheduled to be held tomorrow. the Chief Election Commissioner said that mobile apps have been downloaded on the mobile …

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday expressed shock at the brutal Sialkot lynching of a Sri Lankan national, but expressed confidence in PM Imran Khan’s commitment to punishing all those involved. PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government is a key regional ally to Pakistan, took to Twitter to …