ISLAMABAD:(M.Saleem) Pakistan is facing a massive rise in digital and online financial fraud, with consumers collectively losing more than $9 billion each year, according to recent assessments by cybersecurity experts. The scams, often spread through SMS, WhatsApp, and social media platforms, target citizens with fake investment offers, prize schemes, and fraudulent online shopping portals. Fraudsters…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Navy has achieved a major success in the Arabian Sea by intercepting narcotics worth $972.4 million, dealing a severe blow to international drug trafficking networks and reaffirming its professional excellence in maritime security operations. According to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the successful operation was carried out by PNS Yarmook, operating under…
Sean Seddon, Wahiba Ahmed and Anna Foster Gaza health crisis will last ‘for generations’, says WHO chief Gaza is experiencing a health “catastrophe” that will last for “generations to come”, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a massive increase in…
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time after the country experienced record-breaking heat this spring. Insect enthusiast Bjorn Hjaltason encountered the mosquitoes over several nights last week while using wine-soaked ropes to observe moths, local media reported. Mr Hjaltason found two female mosquitoes and one male which were later confirmed to be…
A preliminary report into last month’s funicular crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people has detailed a litany of failings. Portugal’s Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable – which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, causing the crash – was defective and had never been certified for passenger…
Matt Murphy & Joshua CheethamBBC Verify Donald Trump/Truth Social US officials say they have carried out a number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing multiple drug traffickers. Announcing the first of these in September, President Donald Trump said his forces had destroyed a vessel that had departed from Venezuela. He said the…
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said that the government’s ongoing crackdown is not targeted at any single organization, but against any individual or group found involved in armed activity or unauthorized fundraising. Speaking at a joint press conference in Karachi, the minister emphasized that the government is acting strictly within the law to…
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has assured leading Ahle-Sunnat scholars that the government will reopen sealed mosques and religious seminaries, and will not interfere in the administrative or religious affairs of these institutions, according to official and clerical sources. During meetings held in Karachi and Islamabad, Minister Naqvi pledged the release of…
LAHORE: Pakistani authorities have frozen 95 bank accounts and sealed several properties — both legal and illegal — registered under the name of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Saad Rizvi, as part of a province-wide operation targeting extremist financing networks, Punjab’s information minister confirmed on Monday. The minister further revealed that raids are underway to arrest…
KARACHI: A potential nationwide fuel shortage looms after a sudden move by the Sindh government to reinstate a 100% bank guarantee requirement under the Infrastructure Development Cess (IDC), causing petroleum cargo to be held up at ports. According to industry representatives, the Sindh government has reactivated the cess — originally imposed in 1994 — following…
