At least 13 people, including five children, were killed and four others sustained injuries when a mini truck carrying a family fell into a ravine in Khushab district in Pakistan's province of Punjab, ARY News reported on Saturday.
Siyal, who worked in the Daily Khabrain, was shot several times while travelling in the area, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported.
Tensions are rising in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) as the Pakistani administration has been deploying troops from Punjab Province to suppress the upcoming protest in the region on May 11.
The Jamaat-e-Islami has announced to hold protest demonstrations across Punjab province in Pakistan to advocate the approval of farmers' demands, reported ARY News.
The voting for by-elections in Pakistan is underway for twenty-one vacant seats of National and Provincial Assemblies amid strict security on Sunday, ARY News reported.
At least 14 people were killed following lightning strikes in Balochistan and Punjab as heavy downpours hit parts of provinces on Saturday, Geo News reported, citing officials.
Highlighting the ongoing cases of violence against women, children and trans people, the HRCP in its letter recommended strengthening the Punjab province's Commission on the Status of Women.
The exiled Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK) rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza compared the developmental plan of Pakistan's Punjab province's new Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz with the economic model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On Friday, MNA-elect Rasheed Akbar Nawani from NA-92, MPAs-elect Ahmad Nawaz Nawani PP-90 and Amir Inyat PP-92 (Bhakkar) and Rana Abdul Manan PP-272 (Muzaffarghar) called on the party leadership and announced their joining of the PML-N.
The police in Pakistan's Punjab province are set to acquire 29000 CCTV cameras worth Pakistani rupees (PKR) 1.35 billion for monitoring of general elections 2024, ARY News reported on Sunday.