Monday, April 5th, 2021
Police arrest five suspects in ATC judge, family murder case
SWABI: Police have registered a first information report (FIR) of the assasination of a Swat Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge with his three family members at the Swabi Interchange on Islamabad-Peshwar Motorway. The case was registered on a complaint of the judge’s son at Chota Lahore police station. Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Latif Afridi is among those named accused in the case. Other accused include Jamil, Danish Afridi, Jamal Afridi, and Abid Muhammad Shafiq. In addition to them, four unidentified accused have also been included in the FIR. Separately,Read More
Taiwan rescuers work to bring out last body from wrecked train
TAIPEI: Taiwanese rescuers were trying on Monday to retrieve the last body of a passenger from wreckage of a deadly train crash last week. Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a packed express train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into a truck near the eastern city of Hualien on Friday, causing it to derail and the front end to crumple. It was the island’s worst rail accident in seven decades. The truck had slid down a sloping road from a building site onto the tracks just outsideRead More
Pakistan records 5,020 coronavirus cases, 81 deaths in a day
ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 43 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 14,821. The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed the COVID-19 has claimed 43 more lives and 4,323 fresh infections were reported during the period. During the period of a day, the total count of active cases was recorded at 61,450 and the positivity rate stood at 9.96 per cent. The health facilities across the country conducted 43,362 coronavirus detection tests, taking the total number ofRead More