In compliance with the decision of Sindh High Court and considering the complaints of general public and media reports regarding frequent tripping and prolonged load shedding in Karachi, the National......
Pakistan Navy has reportedly received seven surplus Westland Sea King multi-role helicopters in a ceremony in London on May 24. The helicopters will undergo maintenance services by Vector Aerospace......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday sought a reply from the interior secretary in a contempt of court case regarding the removal of names from the Exit Control List (ECL) of four Axact......
Deputy Chairman Senate Abdul Ghafoor Haideri on Wednesday criticised the federal government for its lack of prompt action following a recent attack targetting his convoy in Balochistan's Mastung......
The United States President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Axios news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources with direct knowledge of the......
A man has opened fire at a private school in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, the US embassy in Riyadh said, adding that no children were present at the time.“There has been a shooting at Kingdom......
The Airport Security Force (ASF) has converted an old aircraft, previously owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into a restaurant, ProPakistani reported Wednesday.According to the news......
The National Security Committee (NSC) on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over anti-terrorism operations in the country and showed its deep concerns over human rights violations in India-held Kashmir......
The Pakistan Navy has received the seven surplus Westland Sea King multi-role helicopters it had ordered from the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported Wednesday.The......
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) some pertinent questions regarding the latter's jurisdiction in probing matters relating to a political party's foreign......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Wednesday’s tumultuous trading session on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 861.59 points, or 1.67, by the close of the trading session to......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged Spanish firms to invest in India, saying the fast-growing country offered “many opportunities” in areas ranging from tourism to energy.“India is......
The managing director of Careem has alleged that an Inspector General of Police (IGP) tired to 'lend support' to his son's job application on Tuesday.In a Facebook post, Junaid Iqbal alleged that a......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's response to a contempt of court case filed against him and gave him another chance......
PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi resigned from Senate hours after a video surfaced on Wednesday showing him lashing out at "those investigating" Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family.Chief Justice of......
Experienced Indian techie Raghu Narayanaswamy lost his job recently and fears he may not get another, as analysts warn of massive layoffs across the country's multi-billion-dollar information......
I am Rifee Khan, a trans woman and advocate for transgender rights in Sindh. I have come a long way since the day I ran away from my home.People advise me to gain a skill and start working instead of......
At least 90 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital just days into......
PESHAWAR: The project of Khyber Institute of Child Health (KICH) will face more delay as Rs1,000 million pledged by federal government for it is unlikely to be released during the new fiscal year,......
MINGORA: Demand for mountain ice has increased in Swat as prolonged power outages have caused shortage of ice and cold water in the area.The local people say that they refrigerators in their homes......
SWABI: Entrepreneurs of Gadoon Amazai Estate (GAIE) here on Tuesday stormed the estate grid station and forcibly stopped the electricity supply on three feeders, which was allegedly done at the......
MANSEHRA: The French Embassy is set to sign a memorandum of understating with the Hazara University for a student exchange programme.Under the programme, the students of the two countries will......
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked British authorities to cancel visas issued to two suspected human smugglers, who managed to fly out of Benazir Bhutto International......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has called expressions of interest for the construction of a shopping mall and a five star hotel where the more than a century old Odeon Cinema,......
Q: What are you currently reading?A: At the moment, I am reading about the South China Sea and the importance of Pakistan in Chinese foreign policy. I am reading a book titled The China-Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Residents of the city gathered outside the National Press Club on Tuesday to protest the lack of water and said the underground water level was falling.The protest was organised by the......
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of government departments, NGOs and international associations gathered outside the National Press Club on Tuesday, the eve of World No Tobacco Day, and criticised the......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Unbridled loadshedding has created problems for people especially surgeons who are forced to operate upon patients under makeshift arrangements.As Ghazi Medical College’s teaching......
LAHORE: Expressing concern over national security, the Lahore High Court chief justice on Tuesday stayed process of outsourcing management control of the Allama Iqbal International Airport,......
LAHORE: Mismanagement, eyewash or perhaps corruption are the reported hallmarks of majority of Ramazan bazaars across the province, eliciting complaints of under-weighing, overcharging and low......
MULTAN: Up to 23 fire engines were being used to control a massive fire on Tuesday at 11pm that erupted at Basheer Oil Mills on Vehari Road on Tuesday afternoon.Talking to APP, Rescue 1122 spokesman......
LAHORE: The permanent collection of legendary painter Shakir Ali, housed at Shakir Ali Museum in Garden Town, is finally going to be restored after a long delay.According to the officials, the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said that the government, and not the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) or the Supreme Court (SC), is authorised to hold investigations into the......
COLOMBO: Pakistan’s Naval Ship Zulfiquar arrived here on Tuesday with dry rations, medicines, de-flooding pumps and other emergency relief items as the death toll from Sri Lanka’s flash floods and......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that no case is pending against former president Asif Ali Zardari at present and, therefore, he is a free man to go anywhere.“As far as......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday opened four new corruption cases against officers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led Sindh government.Despite repeated criticism by......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly continued its boycott of the budget session for a second day after the government refused to allow the leader of the opposition’s speech to be......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed a strategy to the Balochistan government for tapping shallow groundwater emanating from perennial streams of the river basins of Zhob and......
PARIS: Former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has been placed under formal investigation over allegations that possible kickbacks may have helped finance his 1995 presidential election......
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday accused two members of the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case of harassing Hussain Nawaz,......
ISLAMABAD: The joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case on Tuesday questioned the prime minister’s son, Hussain Nawaz, to establish the money trail of his London properties.The......
KARACHI/HYDERABAD: Like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, power riots broke out in many cities across Sindh on Tuesday as citizens experienced prolonged power cuts in the prevailing hot and humid weather during......
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali is set to lead Pakistan’s team to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on June 8 for a meeting of ‘agents’ of two parties in the Kulbhushan Jadhav......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested an activist in the first case in its campaign to crack down on social media users criticising the country’s armed forces on different digital......
PARIS: Alexander Zverev, the man seen as a potential French Open champion, crashed out in the first round Tuesday as world number one Andy Murray and former winner Stan Wawrinka moved through.Zverev,......
LONDON: South Africa and England are the perennial underachievers in ODI cricket, mixing high hopes with high-profile failures in the big tournaments.They’ll have to cope with the favourites’ tag at......
DUBAI: South African pacer Kagiso Rabada has moved up four places to take the top spot and became the youngest bowler to top the list since Pakistan’s spin maestro Saqlain Mushtaq in the ICC player......
LAHORE: Fast bowler Wahab Riaz has suffered a slight injury on his left knee, as per the spokesman for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).“The pacer has slightly injured upper muscle of his left knee......
LONDON: India couldn’t have hoped for a better preparation for the ICC Champions Trophy as the defending champions annihilated Bangladesh by 240 runs in their warm-up on Tuesday.After being put into......
LONDON: England captain Eoin Morgan remained in upbeat mood heading into the Champions Trophy despite a seven-wicket defeat by South Africa at Lord’s on Monday.The hosts collapsed to 20 for six — the......
BARCELONA: Barcelona picked one of their own to improve their winning ways.Former player Ernesto Valverde is the man charged with reviving the club’s fortunes after being confirmed as the Catalan......
MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said on Tuesday he will not be swayed by popular opinion in his selection dilemma over whether to play Gareth Bale or Isco in the Champions League final......
ROME: AS Roma coach Luciano Spalletti parted company with the club on Tuesday despite leading them to second place in Serie A this season with a club-record points haul.The shaven-headed......
DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund’s head coach Thomas Tuchel has left the club, the Bundesliga side confirmed Tuesday, three days after winning their first silverware for five years in the German Cup.The......
Tribunal adjourns Khalid’s hearing until June 14LAHORE: The three-member Anti-corruption Tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday granted Khalid Latif leave till June 14 so that his......
BRUSSELS: The 2019 Tour de France will start in Brussels to celebrate the 50th anniversary of five-time champion Eddy Merckx’s maiden win in cycling’s biggest race, organisers said on Tuesday.“It’s......
NOT too long ago, at a detention facility of the militant Islamic State group in Syria, there was a quartet of particularly vicious enforcers who stood out not only because of their exceptional......
REPORTEDLY, there are about 35 million to 50m people in Pakistan suffering from mental illnesses and disorders. There are only 400 psychiatrists in the country and the government’s spending on......
It was 4:30 in the afternoon, just before rush hour. The trains were crowded but not as much as they would soon be. Some witnesses in the Portland commuter train said that all the seats were taken......
There is certainly something sinister about the Sharif government’s decision to put the long-awaited Fata reforms on the back burner. With the federal budget already announced, there is no hope of......
GENEVA: In a landmark ruling, a Swiss court has fined a man for “liking” comments on Facebook accusing an animal rights activist of being a “racist” and an “anti-Semite”.In the first case of its kind......
WASHINGTON: A top White House communications staffer has resigned as President Donald Trump considers a major staff overhaul amid intensifying inquiries into his campaign’s dealings with Russia.The......
New Delhi: The reporting of Zika virus cases found in Gujarat would have taken the sheen off the Modi government’s three years in office, as it is campaigning for clean and healthy India. The Hindu......
LONDON: A song labelling Prime Minister Theresa May a liar has shot to the top of music sales charts in Britain, mocking her “strong and stable” motto ahead of the June 8 national election.‘Liar liar......
LONDON: A ‘period emoji’ on mobile devices could help break the taboo of menstruation, according to an international child rights group, which is pushing for an icon to help highlight the stigma that......
ONITSHA: Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of an independent republic of Biafra sparked a brutal civil war.In Onitsha,......
DHAKA: Cyclone Mora battered Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing five people, damaging thousands of homes and ripping through a camp housing thousands of Rohingya refugees who had fled violence in......
PANAMA CITY: Former Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, who spied for the United States before his drug trafficking and brutality triggered a US invasion to oust him in 1989, has died aged......
JAKARTA: On Tuesday, a gay couple in Aceh was punished with 85 strokes of the cane — despite protests from human rights advocates — for violating the province’s Islamic by-law that bans......
STOCKHOLM: The “Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen, the city’s most famous monument, was doused in red paint on Tuesday by animal rights activists outraged over whaling, police said.The culprits......
SEOUL: North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, said South Korea’s military, in an apparent effort to demonstrate its advanced ballistic missile......
Cyclone Mora, the recent most cyclone to hit Bangladesh, was formed after heavy rains in Sri Lanka that caused floods and landslides killing at least 180 people there.In Bangladesh it has already......
PETALING JAYA: The lights at the Manchester Arena were gradually being turned on as Ariana Grande wrapped up the concert with ‘Dangerous Woman’.That was the cue for final-year architecture student......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered a special audit of fresh circular debt claims of Rs480 billion and third-party analysis of the power demand-and-supply situation on the basis......
KARACHI: The inflow of dollars from foreign countries rose 15 per cent in the first two days of Ramazan, according to a foreign exchange dealer.This suggests the country may achieve the last fiscal......
KARACHI: Sales of power generators have skyrocketed by up to 40 per cent in Ramazan as citizens, hit with rolling power cuts and heatwave in the fasting month, consider other options.The situation is......
KARACHI: The Site Association of Industry on Tuesday expressed serious concern over unannounced loadshedding by K-Electric, which lasted for 12 hours — from midnight to noon — on Monday.Previously......
ISLAMABAD: The government has enhanced regulatory duty to a maximum of 25 per cent on imports of essential eatables.The move may cause higher than anticipated import-led inflation in the next fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday recommended a Rs3.20 and Rs2.30 per litre cut in the prices of high speed diesel (HSD) and petrol, respectively, from June 1.On the......
ISLAMABAD: The Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) on Tuesday issued a Letter of Interest (LoI) to China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) for the development of 300-megawatts......
KARACHI: Traces of an oil slick were found in a large area of Hawkesbay and Sandspit beaches on Tuesday, causing concern among experts.Information gathered from different sources indicated that the......
KARACHI: As is the case with all great artists, it is not easy to describe the life and work of the late Mansur Salim (1958-2015). Unlike many modern-day painters, sculptors and conceptualists, he......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Tuesday acquitted four men in a case pertaining to the killing of a jail official, his brother and three guards in 2006 for lack of evidence.The ATC-VII judge, who......
KARACHI: Marking the World No Tobacco Day, representatives of the healthcare community and rights activists on Tuesday called for the government to give priority to health over business in order to......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that people in rural and urban areas are suffering very badly in this sizzling weather from prolonged power failures and loadshedding and......
Pakistan Navy ship Zulfiquar reached Sri Lanka on Tuesday to deliver relief goods and assist in the search and rescue missions, on the directives of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.Sri Lanka has recently......
