Updates from KASHI

  The Gaza Strip has only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left”, the regional head of the United Nations’ World Health Organization said on Monday, as Israeli forces kept up their bombardment of the Palestinian enclave. If aid is not allowed into the besieged territory, doctors will have to “prepare death certificates for their patients,” WHO regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed al-Mandhari, said in an interview with  AFP . Israel stopped piping water to Gazans as part of a siege forced to stop food and fuel from reaching the enclave of 2.3 million people, many poor and dependent on aid in response to a surprise HAMAS OFFENSIVE on October 7 that left 1,300 Israelis dead, according to officials. After it suffered the deadliest attack in its history, Israel unleashed a relentless bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip. The health ministry in Gaza said around 2,750 people have been killed and 9,700 wounded while, according to the UN, one million have b...

  Pakistan legend Waqar Younis on Monday advised misfiring strike bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi to learn from India seamer Jasprit Bumrah if he wants to make an impact at the World Cup. Shaheen is struggling with his pace and fitness and has been unimpressive in all three games at the World Cup where his four wickets have come at a cost of 139 runs. “I don’t know if there is a problem with his fitness,” Waqar, who is in India as a commentator, told  AFP . “The missing link in his bowling is discipline and he is over trying to get wickets. When you do the same thing again and again, like Shaheen is bowling to get his yorker going, then batsmen know that and they are ready for it.” Waqar suggested Shaheen should follow the example set by Bumrah who he described as a “top bowler.” The Indian spearhead is joint top wicket-taker in the World Cup with eight wickets at just 11.52. New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner and fast bowler Matt Henry also have eight victims each. India  t...

  At least one person was killed and six others injured in a grenade attack in Lyari’s Bihar Colony on Monday night, according to police. South DIG Syed Asad Raza told  Dawn.com  that unidentified individuals on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade outside a shop that had been closed for months before fleeing the scene. The authorities are investigating the motive behind the attack, the police official said before adding that it appeared to be a random act without a specific target. The DIG said that seven people sustained injuries, while one of them — a 35-year-old named Razia Mohammed Ali — was in critical condition before succumbing to her wounds. He said all of the injured were bystanders and had been transported to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital in Karachi. They were identified as Zohaib Javed, Khairullah, Wansh Dileep Kumar, Ateeqa Adam, Adil Adam and Ahsan Nabi. Meanwhile, Sindh Inspector General of Police Dr Raffat Mukhtar Raja sought details from the SSP Old City area ...

  BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal on Monday dubbed the caretaker government an ‘undertaker’ government and equated its governance to martial law, after members of his party were booked over what he described were “peaceful protests against death squads” purportedly tasked to “eliminate” him and his party. Mengal made the accusation against Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar-led interim government in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He said his party held peaceful protests all over Balochistan against an “operation being planned” against him, following which the action was taken. “It’s not a caretaker government but as I said an undertaker, another name for martial law,” he added, asking where should he go for justice. Mengal also posted a copy of the FIR (first information report), which was registered against him in Quetta Civil Line police station under section 147 (punishment for rioting), section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution o...

According to the post of Governor Sindh Kamran Tessori on Twitter, he affirmed that he had narrowly escaped an accident during landing via 'Fly Jinnah aircraft'. he also quotes the pilot words in his post, " Pilot Ky Mutabiq ALLAH Ney Sbko Nai Zindagi Di",

Oct 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday cut the prices of petrol and diesel owing to the decreasing trend of petroleum prices in the international market, the finance ministry said in a statement. The price of petrol would drop by 40 Pakistani rupees ($0.144) to 283.38 rupees a liter effective October 16. High-speed diesel cost would drop by 15 rupees to 303.18 rupees a liter. ($1 = 277.2000 Pakistani rupees)