Western Canada seeks urgent help to fight wildfires

Drayton Valley, Canada, May 8 (AFP/APP): Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threaten to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Some 30,000 people were ordered to leave their […]

Making a military commander By Dr Atique Ur Rehman

Will Durant writes in his book, Lessons of History, that the first lesson of history is modesty and life is all about survival of the fittest. The global system also dictates that the security of a state is its own responsibility. Pakistan’s existence is the […]

Karachi mayorship depends on today’s by-polls: JI

KARACHI 07 May (Online): Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief, Engineer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has urged the citizens to cast vote for local-bodies by-elections on Sunday (yesterday) as they did on January 15. He said that the Karachi mayorship depends on the results of today’s LG polls in […]

Reshuffle in education boards may hit schedule of SSC exams

KARACHI 07 May (Online): The secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations in Sindh might be affected due to the transfer of the officers of various boards by the Department of Boards and Universities just three days before the schedule. The department, through a notification, returned the […]

‘Abducted’ minor girls recovered

KARACHI 07 May (Online): Police have recovered two young sisters, allegedly abducted during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, and arrested three suspects. As per details, a man, named Zubair Ahmed, resident of Quaid-e-Azam Colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, along with two daughters of his nephew – two-year-old Bushra and three-year-old […]

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