BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal, minister call on PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (APP): Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) and Member of the National Assembly, Sardar Akhtar Mengal and Federal Minister for Science and Technology Agha Hassan Baloch on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. During the meeting, overall situation in the […]

Farmers stage sit-in at Blue Area

ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (APP):Farmers led by the `Kissan Ittehad’ on Wednesday staged a sit-in at the Federal Capital’s business hub of Blue Area after the authorities barred them to enter Red Zone. When the farmers rally reached Faizabad, its participants were pursued by the local […]

One killed in Belgium anti-terror raids on far-right

Brussels, Sept 28 (AFP/APP):Belgian police killed a man in a shootout on Wednesday during raids on a suspected extreme-right group thought to be planning a “terrorist attack”, prosecutors said. The 36-year-old died from a police bullet during a swoop on an address in the Merksem […]

Russia limits access to Georgia border region: authorities

Moscow, Sept 28 (AFP/APP): Authorities in North Ossetia ordered a restriction of car travel to the Russian republic that neighbours Georgia on Wednesday, after tens of thousands fled over the border to escape the Kremlin’s mobilisation drive. The head of North Ossetia, Sergei Menyaylo, wrote […]

RAWALPINDI: Boy crushed to death by elevator

RAWALPINDI, Sep 28 (APP): An 18 year old boy died after being crushed under the elevator in a cloth shop in commercial market on Wednesday. According to a private news channel, an elevator installed in a clothes shop suddenly fell down on the boy who […]

Monster Hurricane Ian hammers Florida

Port Charlotte, United States, Sept 28 (AFP/APP):Heavy winds and rain pummelled Florida on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian intensified to just shy of the strongest Category 5 level, threatening to wreak “catastrophic” destruction on the southern US state. Forecasters warned of a looming once-in-a-generation calamity, with […]

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