KARACHI: Broadsheet LLC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kaveh Moussavi has said that he had \”voluntarily\” identified a suspicious bank account in the United Kingdom having an amount of $1 billion but the government of Pakistan has not shown any interest in tracing it. Responding to a question in an interview with BBC Urdu on Friday, he said that the […]
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The United States green-lighted the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine late on Friday, paving the way for millions of vulnerable people to receive their shots in the world\’s hardest-hit country. President Donald Trump immediately released a video on Twitter, where he hailed the news as a “medical miracle” and said the first immunisations would take place “in
AYUN: The year\’s last festival of the Kalash tribe of Chitral got underway in the three valleys of Buburate, Birir and Rumbur. It will continue till 22nd of this month. The main function to launch the winter festival of Chitramas or Choumos was held at the newly-constructed dancing hall in the village of Blangoro in
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A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of Pakistan won an international award on Thursday. More than one million people have benefited from the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) Pakistan project, which was a gold prize winner at the World
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It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years. Reaching out with his trunk, Kaavan tentatively greeted a fellow inhabitant of the Cambodian sanctuary where he is beginning his new life after being rescued from grim conditions in the Islamabad zoo. The 36-year-old bull elephant — dubbed the “world\’s loneliest” — was the
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Many have been telling spooky tales about royal residences since the dawn of time as royal fans believe supernatural creatures lurk the halls of the palaces. Amongst the royal properties that are most famous for strange and mysterious happenings within palace walls, is Windsor Castle which has made headlines for being haunted. According to a
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A Pakistani man was jailed for two years on Sunday for offering a luxury car and his Rolex watch to a police officer in Dubai. According to Gulf News, a local court ordered that the 40-year-old be deported after serving his jail term as well as Dh140,000 fine. Official police records showed that the man, who
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A suicide bomber struck near an education centre in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least 18 people in the latest attack to rock the conflict-wracked country. Violence on the ground has spiked in recent weeks despite the Taliban and the Afghan government holding peace talks in Qatar to end the country\’s grinding war.
ISLAMABAD: Incidents of illegal logging and poaching of the endangered Kashmir markhor, Pakistan’s national animal, have been on the rise at the country’s largest reserve as watchmen have refused to show up for work at the wildlife sanctuary over unpaid salaries. Chitral Gol National Park (CGNP) was established in 1984 and spreads over 77.5 square
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PESHAWAR: The KP government has finalized preparations for commercial launching of six new economic zones, including one in Chitral. Other economic zones will be set up in Nowshehra, Rashakai, Ghazi, Mohmand and DI Khan. These economic zones would be launched phase-vise from November this year to February next year. This was stated at a meeting
