Pakistan

Lahore, Jun 13 (PTI) The Pakistan government has formed a joint investigation team to probe the last month's plane crash in Karachi that killed 98 people.

The joint investigation team (JIT) was constituted on Friday, comprising officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), to probe into the Pakistan International Ailrlines (PIA) plane crash.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 12 (APP): Pakistan on Friday regretted the negative remarks by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ Spokesperson regarding a goodwill suggestion by Prime Minister Imran Khan to share Pakistan’s successful experience in ameliorating impact of COVID-19 on the poorest sections of the society.

“Remarks by the MEA’s Spokesperson reflect an unprofessional attempt at point-scoring over a serious issue that involves lives of millions of poor people in the sub-continent, worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.

10 June 2020; MEMO: Two state-of-the-art warships are to be locally constructed for the Pakistani Navy as part of a transfer of technology agreement signed between Pakistan and Turkey.

RAWALPINDI, Jun 10 (APP): Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar Wednesday said the Indian Army Troops targetted civilian population in unprovoked ceasefire violation in Jandrot sector along the Line of Control (LoC).

In a tweet, he said due to Indian troops’ indiscriminate fire in Dera Sher Khan, Sandhara and Bamroch villages, 4 innocent civilians including two women and two children got critically injured. He went on to mention that the injured citizens were evacuated to a nearby medical facility.

ISLAMABAD, June 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – The death toll from the collapse of a five-storey residential building in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, rose to 13 on Tuesday morning, police and rescue officials said.

Senior Superintendent of Police in District City, Karachi, Muqaddas Haider, told Xinhua that the death toll rose after the bodies of eight more residents were retrieved from the rubble of the building, that collapsed on Sunday night, in the densely populated Khadda market area of Karachi, the provincial capital of south Sindh province.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s coronavirus infections soared past 5,000 as the World Health Organization urged the government to impose a two-week lockdown to stem the relentless spike in new cases.

Pakistan has recorded 113,702 confirmed cases and 2,255 deaths.

Until now, Pakistan’s daily testing rate has hovered around 25,000, but the WHO says it should be double that.

ISLAMABAD, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Several people were injured after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Sunday, local media reported.

According to the reports, several others are trapped under the building's rubble.

Islamabad, Jun 6 (PTI) The downloading and decoding of the black box of the Pakistani airplane that crashed in a densely populated area last month has been completed, the French investigators have said.

The Airbus A320 aircraft of the national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had 91 passengers and a crew of eight when it crashed into the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir on May 22, minutes before its landing at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport.

Ninety seven passengers died in the crash. Eleven people on ground were injured.

Lahore, Jun 6 (PTI) A Pakistani court has issued a notice to Prime Minister Imran Khan in a defamation case filed by PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif seeking early hearing of his suit against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, pending for three years.

Prime Minister Khan in April 2017 alleged that Shahbaz offered him USD 61 million through a common friend to withdraw the Panama Papers case in the Supreme Court against 70-year-old former prime minister and his elder brother Nawaz Sharif.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 06 (APP): Director General Inter Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar Saturday said Pakistan Army troops have shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Khanjar Sector along the line of control (LoC).

In a tweet, the ISPR DG said the quadcopter had intruded 500 meters on Pakistan’s side of the LoC .

“This is 8th Indian Quadcopter shot down by Pakistan Army troops this year,” he tweeted.