Investigators inspect a bus carrying tourists from mainland China that crashed and caught fire along an expressway on its way to the airport in Taiwan’s city of Taoyuan on July 19, 2016. ─ AFP TAIPEI: A Taiwan tour bus carrying tourists from China crashed into a highway railing en route to the airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing all 26 on board, Taiwanese authorities said. The bus was carrying 24 tourists on an eight-day tour organised by a travel agency in China’s northeastern province of Liaoning, authoritiesRead More

ISLAMABAD: A special court hearing treason charges against ret. General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday ordered authorities to freeze the former president’s back accounts and confiscate his property. A three-member bench of the special court headed by Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel passed the orders over the non-appearance of the accused before the court despite repeated notices. The court also adjourned the hearing of the case until the former president is arrested or he surrenders. Justice Miankhel remarked that the court cannot initiate further proceedings in theRead More

KARACHI: Director General ISPR Asim Bajwa said Awais Shah was recovered from his kidnappers who had made him wear a burqa in order to transport him in Dera Ismail Khan. Elaborating on Shah’s recovery in a press conference, Bajwa said an ambush was foiled in Dera Ismail Khan at a checkpoint at Mufti Mehmood Chowk on the way to Tank. Bajwa gives details of raid that recovered kidnapped lawyer Kidnappers had put him in a veil to conceal his identity Lawyer recovered with hands and feet tied, tape across theRead More