The provincial building control authority on Thursday imposed a ban on the construction of high-rise buildings in Karachi with immediate effect.Acting on the orders passed by the Supreme Court, Sindh......
The unconventional tug of war between the Inspector General Sindh (IGP) A. D. Khawaja and the provincial government deepened on Thursday as the recently reappointed Sindh Home Minister Suhail Anwar......
Operationalisation Ceremony of Naval Air Station Turbat was held at PNS Siddiq, at Turbat Balochistan on Thursday, said press release issued by Pakistan Navy.Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif was the......
Former Senior Superintendent of Police, Islamabad, Mohammad Ali Nekokara has been exonerated after three years when he was dismissed from his service reportedly for not using force against......
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the record from Election Commission of Pakistan and other courts regarding the cases pending against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) about the alleged foreign......
Authorities in north India have blocked mobile internet services, arrested 24 people and suspended senior officials after clashes between castes that have left two people dead and at least 20......
The monarch of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Salman, has apologised to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other leaders of Muslim countries for not presenting them with a chance to address the......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Thursday’s session on a slightly negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 7.45 points, or 0.01 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach......
A three member-police investigation team was formed Thursday to probe the kidnapping of two Chinese nationals from Quetta and ensure their safe recovery as the Chinese foreign ministry asked......
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jet crashed near Mianwali while on routine operational training on Thursday, a press release issued by PAF said."PAF reports with regret that a PAF F-7PG aircraft, while on......
The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Thursday suspended the membership of Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana, holding him responsible for ruckus caused at a convention organised by the......
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Shanghai University China, agreeing to collaboratively offer a Master of Finance program......
Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, beat Chinese Go master Ke Jie for a second time on Thursday, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in a best of three series meant to test the limits of......
Britain raced Thursday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, while a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the......
Facebook Inc has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will......
Uzma, an Indian national who claimed she had been forced to marry a Pakistani man at gunpoint in Buner earlier in May, returned to her home country via the Wagah border on Thursday, a day after the......
Bahrain and Egypt on Thursday apparently joined Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in blocking access to websites run by the pan-Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera, part of a growing regional......
India on Wednesday scrapped a ministerial panel responsible for coordinating foreign investments, part of efforts by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to boost funding of local industries from......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition have agreed that the federal budget for the next financial year — to be presented by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday (tomorrow) — will be put for a......
WASHINGTON: US intelligence chiefs have warned Congress that India may launch aggressive actions inside Pakistan on the pretext of stopping “cross-border attacks” and that the ongoing exchange of......
ISLAMABAD: Commuters opting to travel in all classes of trains would get concession of up to 20 per cent in fares during the first 20 days of the holy month of Ramazan, said Railways Minister......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate standing committee on defence on Wednesday suggested that the military revisit its decision to evict 34 families from their homes in the Loralai cantonment.The issue was first......
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing war of words between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) took another turn on Wednesday when ruling party lawmakers accused state......
SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairperson Imran Khan vowed to unleash a “tsunami” of change in Sindh and drive out the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) which, he claimed, had not been able to change......
PESHAWAR: Ignoring reservations, the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government have gone ahead with their plan to establish the Peshawar Expo Centre on the land of the province’s leading agricultural......
PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas Tribunal on Wednesday adjourned to July 27 the hearing into Dr Shakil Afridi’s petition against the upholding of his conviction by an appellate forum......
MANSEHRA: The people of Dubgran village on Wednesday blocked a major road in Mansehra during a protest against Wapda for blocking the relocation of the graves of their ancestors.The protesters......
MARDAN: Father of Mashal Khan, who was lynched by a violent mob on the premises of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan last month, on Wednesday alleged that his son was killed through a conspiracy......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday allowed Indian national Dr Uzma Ahmed to go back to her country and declined her husband’s request to meet her.The court gave Dr Ahmed......
Sylvestre Wahid moved from Kohat to France with his family when he was nine. Inspired by his father, he decided to pursue a career in food and is now one of the most well-known and celebrated chefs......
QUETTA: Armed men kidnapped two Chinese nationals, including a woman, from Jinnah Town on Wednesday afternoon. The kidnappers also tried to take away another Chinese woman but she ran away.A man......
Three years into the pursuit of macroeconomic stabilisation policies under the aegis of an IMF programme, the PML-N government announced a transition to a “pro-growth”, “investment-friendly” budget......
ISLAMABAD: The joint investigation team (JIT) investigating the Panama Papers revelations has sent questionnaires to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, sources privy......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman warned India on Wednesday against any misadventure.“If subjected to any kind of misadventure, the adversary will have to face a......
KARACHI: The religious affairs ministry notified on Wednesday that Nisab for Zakat had been fixed at Rs38,405.No deduction of Zakat should be made at source in case the bank account in question had......
ISLAMABAD: A proposal to amend nomination forms for electoral candidates appears to have, once again, put parliament and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) at odds with each other.Talking to......
BRASILIA: Police fired tear gas and stun grenades on Wednesday in confrontations with a crowd of at least 25,000 marching on Brazil’s presidential palace to demand the resignation of embattled......
MANCHESTER: Britain raced on Wednesday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert bombing, as soldiers fanned out to guard key sites under a maximum terror......
NEW YORK: Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos is giving $1 million to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the largest-ever gift to the media rights watchdog.The gift from Bezos, who also owns......
TRIPOLI: The father and the younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue in Manchester have been arrested in Tripoli, a spokesman for a local counterterrorism force......
BRUSSELS: France and Germany will agree to a US plan for Nato to play a bigger role in the fight against the militant Islamic State (IS) group at a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday,......
MOGADISHU: The militant Islamic State group has claimed its first suicide attack in Somalia that left at least five people dead as it steps up activities in a region dominated by the Al Qaeda-linked......
BRUSSELS: Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to use his US presidency to promote peace around the world after what he depicted as an inspirational meeting with an initially grim-faced Pope......
VATICAN CITY: It could have caused a diplomatic incident but a culinary quip from Pope Francis seemed to have gone down well with Donald Trump and his wife Melania.In one of the lighter moments of......
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s top court ruled in favour of gay marriage on Wednesday, a landmark decision that paves the way for the island to become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. It gave......
LAHORE: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Wednesday told the Lahore High Court that outsourcing of country’s three major airports had been deferred for June 3.CAA Deputy Director (Legal) Farooq......
LAHORE: In what can be described as a first major attempt to perform “high-quality laboratory tests” at the primary level health facilities of underprivileged areas, the Punjab government has given a......
GUJRAT: The Pakistan People’s Party has suffered a big blow in the central Punjab where party stalwart from Gujrat, former MNA Nawabzada Ghazanfar Ali Gull, finally announced severing of his......
LAHORE: The government has sought assistance from the leading energy experts in assessing the national load forecast, increase in generation and the situation of surplus production in order to devise......
MANCHESTER: Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an attack in Manchester on Monday, was a university dropout with “proven” links to the militant Islamic State group.Born to a......
MUMBAI: A hotly anticipated film about the life of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar hits cinemas this week but the batting great says he might find watching it an unsettling experience.“I am......
KARACHI: The photo exhibition ‘Pakistan Sustaining Development: Human Stories through Photography’, comprising 102 photos divided into collections representing each of the 17 Sustainable Development......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami has warned that its ‘peaceful protest’ against K-Electric should not be taken as ‘weakness’.Speakers at the party’s protest sit-in at Nursery on Wednesday said that despite......
KARACHI: Apparently taking notice of growing drowning incidents off the city’s beaches in the past several days, taking the death toll to around 17 people, including four schoolboys on Tuesday, the......
MIRPURKHAS: Members of the Mirpurkhas District Council accused irrigation department officials on Wednesday of selling water instead of supplying it to growers.The officials used the pretext of......
HYDERABAD: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari visited Tando Allahyar on Wednesday to meet Ghulam Qadir Mari, his close aide, following his reported recovery in Balochistan by police after he was picked......
THE federal budget for 2017-18 is about to be presented. Should we expect, on this occasion, a revival of the tradition that the government must disclose at least once a year its plans for the......
IN the last year of its rule, the PML-N has decided to throw all caution to the winds and go for a growth strategy that is as cosmetic as the period of its rule has been. This was the party that ran......
A RARE gathering of civilians at the army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 18, to discuss the role of youth in battling extremism, could not have been a more timely reminder of the......
BEFORE he became president, Donald Trump could scarcely have been more insulting about Saudi Arabia. They push gays off buildings, he said, and want women as slaves. And he railed against the cost of......
ISLAMABAD: Amid warnings about the oversupply of generation capacity, the federal and provincial governments on Wednesday agreed to the immediate purchase of up to 450 megawatts of electricity from......
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has asked the government to withdraw certain taxes, including petroleum levy, in the upcoming budget besides announcing administrative......
KARACHI: The government on Wednesday raised Rs338 billion through auction of treasury bills against the target of Rs400bn.The government has reduced dependence on commercial banks as it has been......
ISLAMABAD: The top intelligence department of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is investigating cases where investors trade digital currencies probably to evade taxes or launder money.The State......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways and the Ministry of Petroleum signed a fuel transportation agreement under which the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) will transport at least 2 million tonnes of fuel every year......
KARACHI: With just five trading sessions remaining before Pakistan’s re-entry into the MSCI Emerging Market Index after eight years of exile, investors were excited.Leading the KSE-100 index to touch......
