Guterres said UN-led humanitarian efforts are being “strangle UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the ReutersNEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, US, November United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a US-backed aid operation in Gaza is “inherently unsafe,” giving a blunt assessment: “It is killing people”. Israel and the…
Another three people were killed by a strike while waiting for aid southwest of Gaza City, Bassal said Injured Palestinian girls attend the funeral of their father, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo: REUTERS GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency said that Israeli forces killed at least…
The Millat Express bound for Lala Musa departed at around 6:30pm instead KARACHI: Train arrivals and departures from Karachi to other parts of the country have been delayed by one to two hours due to ongoing monsoon rains and adverse weather conditions. The Pakistan Express, departing from Karachi to Rawalpindi, left 45 minutes late at…
The JI leader expressed these views while addressing a post budget press briefin KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Ameer Monem Zafar stated that the federal, provincial and local government budget made it very clear that Karachi and Karachiites were the priority of none among the ruling parties. The JI leader expressed these views while addressing a…
Bureaucratic hindrances, lack of political will have prevented many deserving families from living KARACHI: Even after the passage of 12 years, residential projects introduced by the Sindh government for providing decent housing to the low-income segments of Karachi remain hanging in uncertainty. Amidst complex bureaucratic hurdles and shifting priorities of the government, many deserving families…
588 of these buildings are in the metropolis alone KARACHI: The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) has identified 740 dangerously dilapidated buildings across the province – 588 of which are in Karachi – as uninhabitable due to the looming threat of structural collapse during the monsoon season. The SBCA has issued fresh evacuation notices to…
Roof of only one part of the seminary caved in, children in another room remained s A group of men is standing amidst the rubble of the seminary roof, assessing the damage, after its tragic collapse claimed the lives of two children. photo: APP Two children lost their lives, and 11 more were injured, in…
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) recording up to 53 millimeters rain by 5.30 pm in Tharparkar Countless villages have been washed away by floods triggered by the incessant rain in Sindh. PHOTO: EXPRESS HYDERABAD: The pre-monsoon showers swept through all parts of Sindh on Thursday and Friday, driving away the intense hot and humid weather…
LUMHS officer tells court he was stripped of years of promotions on CM’s order HYDERABAD: After serving for over three decades for Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, a BPS-18 officer was reverted to the BPS-7 grade on which he was appointed in 1995. However, the Sindh High Court on Thursday stayed the…
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. PHOTO: Radio Pakistan KARACHI: At a ceremony held at the Chief Minister House, under the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD), Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah announced financial assistance of Rs400 million for the welfare of specially-abled people. Aimed at creating an inclusive, empowered, and equitable…
