The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck early Tuesday evening local time at a depth of about 237 km, which is significant as shallower earthquakes are felt more strongly at the surface.
There is no Pakistani male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined as famous as Imran Khan. Every turn in a multifarious public life has abounded in fame, first as a cricket legend, then as a beloved philanthropist who built a cancer hospital for the poor, latterly as a maverick politician who swept to power promising reform, and now, as the sole occupant of a cell in Pakistan's most notorious jail.
I don't want to raise levels of public anxiety. They are anxious about what they're already seeing on their television screens. They're anxious about the impact it will have on them, particularly economically, in their households.