GWADAR: The sit-in being held by the families of missing persons along with civil society members in front of the Turbat deputy commissioner office continued on Sunday after talks with administration failed to yield any results. For the past few days, the families whose loved ones reportedly went missing from Buleda and Pidarak areas of Turbat have been holding the sit-in to demand their recovery. Haq Do Tehreek Chairman Hussain Wadila, along with Hafiz Kiazai, Essa Gami, Haider Baloch and other activists of the movement visited the sit-in camp and expressed solidarity with the protesting families. While addressing the protesters,…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued an alert for flood and landslide as heavy and light rains are expected in different parts of the country, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, in the first week of July. As per the NDMA forecast, moderate to heavy rains may increase water flows in nullahs, streams, and rivers, causing flash flooding in low-lying areas. The monsoon rains may trigger hill torrents in areas of Dera Ismail Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur along with Suleman and Kirthar mountain ranges. There is also a possibility of urban flooding in major cities. The…
RAWALPINDI: The Ministry of Aviation has finalised a fresh framework to register drones and unmanned aircraft, but the draft rules developed for the purpose have left stakeholders and experts skeptical, as they believe the ‘vague’ nature of the proposed regulations would throttle the general use of such aerial equipment. The draft rules, titled ‘Civil Unmanned Aircraft Rules, 2024’, are set to be presented before the federal cabinet for approval, a senior official from the Aviation Division told Dawn. He claimed that after the completion of necessary stakeholder consultations, the draft is ready for cabinet review. The draft policy aims to regulate…
QUETTA: Like other parts of the country, protest demonstrations and rallies were also held in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on Sunday on the call of Jamaat-i-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman against the massive increase in electricity rates and loadshedding. JI workers and supporters marched on various roads and reached outside the Quetta Press Club. They chanted slogans against the government. Speaking at the gathering, JI district leader Hafiz Noor Ali along with Abdul Majid Sarbazi, Arshad Khan and other leaders demanded an immediate reduction in loadshedding hours and power tariff. They urged the government to exempt Balochistan from…
WHAT is punctuation? According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, punctuation means “marks, such as full stop, comma and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and clarify meaning”. Oxford’s Manual of Style says “punctuation exists to clarify meaning in the written word and to facilitate reading”. The Oxford’s manual has also mentioned apostrophe, quotation marks, brackets, hyphens, dashes and ellipses in the chapter on punctuation. Encyclopaedia Britannica has included in punctuation the “spacing”, along with “conventional signs” and “typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading, both silently and aloud, of handwritten and printed texts”.…
Baltimore: More than 100 million people across the US were under heat warnings on Sunday, with cities on the East Coast bracing for record-breaking temperatures as the heat dome causing the dangerous conditions expands to the West Coast. Baltimore and Philadelphia are forecast to touch records near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) on Sunday, while temperatures rise into the 90s F in states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, as much as 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. The extreme heat will then shift to Nebraska and Kansas on Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. Officials…
ISLAMABAD: Amid rumours that efforts are going on to bring Maulana Fazlur Rehman into the coalition government, former speaker of National Assembly Asad Qaiser reached the residence of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief in Islamabad and claimed he discussed with him the formation of a political committee to resolve issues with JUI-F. After the meeting with the JUI-F chief, Mr Qaiser informed the media he shared five names with the Maulana Fazl as members of the committee. He asserted the names will be finalised at JUI-F’s meeting on June 29, and once the committee is formed it would start working to resolve issues. Mr…
PARIS: Three wolves in a zoo outside Paris attacked a 37-year-old woman leaving her fighting for her life, a source familiar with the case and local prosecutors said. The woman was bitten “on the neck, the calf and the back” at the Thoiry zoo around 40 kilometres west of the French capital, the source familiar with the case said. Maryvonne Caillibotte, chief prosecutor in Versailles, said the woman’s life was in danger. The woman is believed to have gone out alone for a jog after spending the night with her family in a safari-style lodge at the zoo, which it…
GILGIT: From glaciers to towering snow-capped peaks and the local architecture in between, the scenic vistas that greet you as you enter Gilgit-Baltistan are unparalleled in their grandeur. However, as any tourist who has visited the region knows, the menace of littering mars the natural beauty of this region. As better infrastructure has brought more and more tourists into this Himalayan region, with it has come the demon of litter and rubbish. In the dusty and smoky cities, overflowing rubbish heaps and errant plastic bags floating in the wind have somehow become normalised, with urban dwellers perhaps becoming desensitised to…
LONDON: The third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom, namely Manchester Airport, cancelled over 100 flights on Sunday. This was following a major power cut which affected ‘thousands of passengers’. At least 20 per cent of all outgoing and incoming flights were cancelled, a Manchester Airport spokesperson stated, whilst adding that they expected further disruption. Earlier on, aviation analytics firm ‘Cirium’ said 66 departures and 50 inbound flights had been cancelled, with ‘easyJet’ experiencing the largest number of cancellations. Manchester Airports Group, which also operates London Stansted and the East Midlands airports, said the airport had been “affected by a major…
