CHITRAL: A fire broke out in residential rooms of Chitral police and Chitral Scouts personnel at Ziarat on Monday night. Rescue 1122 said explosive materials were also stored in one of the rooms but the fire was put out before it could reach there. Rescuers reached the spot and extinguished the flames after about an […]
The United Arab Emirates cabinet on Sunday approved the establishment of an embassy in the city of Tel Aviv in Israel, state media said. The UAE and Israel agreed to normalise relations in August, a deal forged largely over shared fears of Iran. Since then, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco have all agreed to establish ties with Israel
Rescuers in China have freed 11 gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks. TV footage showed the first miner, who was blindfolded to protect his eyes from the light, being lifted out as emergency workers cheered. The fate of 10 other miners remains unknown, as rescue operations continue to try
GILGIT: An American citizen has hunted the highest-rated Astore markhor, a rare species in Gilgit-Baltistan, after paying $61,500 as a licence fee during the current hunting trophy season. Edward Joseph Hudson hunted the markhor near the Dashkin-Mushkin-Tarbuling (DMT) conservation area in Astore, according to the Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife department. The horns of the hunted animal were
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has inducted a second Pakistani American, Salman Ahmed, into his foreign policy team, said a statement issued on Friday. Mr Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning. Last month, Mr Biden announced that
