Category: Pakistani News

  • Dengue claims 2 more lives in Lahore

    LAHORE: Two more people died on Tuesday from the Dengue virus that has pushed the overall death toll to 46 in the city, Geo News reported. There is still no respite from the virus as the death toll is continuously rising across the province. Two more patients of Dengue, 32-year old Khalil and 35-year-old Javed…

  • Pakistan floods: monsoons bring more misery to millions

    More than 5 million people have been affected by monsoons that have brought flash flooding to areas of southern Pakistan. Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has cancelled a trip to attend the United Nations in New York in order to co-ordinate emergency aid for flood victims, a move indicative of the situation’s seriousness. Sindh province, one…

  • Blast In Peshawar CD Market Kills 4, 34 Injured

    Firdous says that the location is fairly frequented especially in the evening, with the main road being jam packed with traffic. He added that the market is located in a residential cluster. Firdous said that the cause of the blast had not yet been ascertained, though some reports suggested that it was a suicide blast.…

  • Sri Lankan Experts Advice: How To Avoid Dengue Fever

  • Taliban suicide blast in Karachi leaves eight dead

    KARACHI: A car-borne Taliban suicide bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Karachi on Monday, killing eight people including six policemen. Senior Superintendent Aslam Khan, who was unhurt in the attack but whose home was destroyed, told AFP he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban and knew that he was…

  • Six more die of dengue fever in Lahore

    LAHORE: Six more patients succumbed to the virus in Lahore on Monday, while more than 7,000 cases were reported in Punjab. The death toll from the dengue virus has now reached 39 in Lahore. Unofficial reports suggest that over 12,000 people have been affected by dengue in Lahore alone. The virus has also claimed one life in Islamabad. In Multan,…