Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday hoped that he and his family would come out clear of the Panamagate scandal and said, “There is nothing to fear as our hands are clean.”Talking to the......
An assistant director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was arrested Thursday on the charge that he sexually harassed an Afghan national at the Islamabad airport.A First Information Report......
Former president and PPP-Parliamentarians President Asif Ali Zardari strongly criticised the ruling PML-N government and accused Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of stabbing him in the back but maintained......
Bangladesh has secretly detained hundreds of people, including scores of opposition activists, many of whom have later been killed, a rights group said Thursday.The Human Rights Watch report,......
Afghanistan is ready for the “huge honour” of making their landmark Lord's debut, officials said ahead of next week's match, after a fairy tale rise catapulted them into the elite club of Test......
The death penalty in Pakistan is exceedingly used as a political tool, research conducted by the Justice Project Pakistan has found. Pakistan’s use of the death penalty has failed to deter crime and......
European and Japanese scientists Thursday unveiled the BepiColombo spacecraft ahead of its seven-year journey to Mercury, to explore one of the Solar System's most enigmatic planets.Set for launch in......
Openers Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka hit sublime centuries to help Sri Lanka humble Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the third one-day international in Hambantota on Thursday.Chasing 311......
On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump questioned the veracity of American intelligence about foreign meddling in the 2016 US election, arguing......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan lashed out at his rivals on Thursday, saying that the nation demanded answers, not the unending drama unfolding in the wake of the Supreme-Court......
The atmosphere is not right for a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narenrdra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, said a Chinese official, reported Times of India.Earlier, there were reports......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange has ended Thursday’s trading session on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 590.31 points, or 1.30 per cent, by the close of the trading session to......
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Nafees Zakaria on Thursday reiterated that the Haqqani Network operates from Afghanistan, not Pakistan.His statement came a day after US Senator John McCain said that......
Six members of a family were killed and one person wounded when their car plunged into a ravine over 1,000 feet deep in a suburban area in Muzaffarabad on Thursday, police said.The victims, including......
Expressing his resolve to improve the policing system, Inspector General (IG) Sindh A.D. Khawaja assured media on Thursday that street crimes in the city had reduced considerably over the past four......
US President Donald Trump stressed that the future of Western civilisation is at stake in a keynote speech in the Polish capital Warsaw on Thursday. Citing Poland as an example of a country ready to......
A day after financial markets were rocked by a sudden depreciation in the value of the rupee against the dollar, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced that a new governor of the State Bank of Pakistan......
Quetta-born professional boxer Mohammad Waseem knocked out Panama's Eliecer Valdes to maintain his first position in WBC rankings on Wednesday."I knocked out Panama's fighter in the second round. I......
Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Malik Naveed Dehwar and his guard were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at the former's vehicle in Quetta's Arbab Karam Khan Road area on Thursday......
In a crowded hospital in India-held Kashmir, a 17-year-old student is recovering from gunshot wounds, one of thousands of civilians injured in protests against Indian rule that have exploded since......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan's reply to a petition seeking his disqualification on charges of......
The CASA-1000 project will help generate electricity in Pakistan and Afghanistan, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday as he addressed the Quadrilateral Session of CASA-1000 conference on the......
Venezuelan pro-government militants wielding clubs and pipes stormed into the opposition-held National Assembly on Wednesday, attacking lawmakers and leaving seven hurt including three with blood......
French President Emmanuel Macron said that he supported a two-state solution to end the Middle East conflict as he welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Elysee Palace on......
America's diplomats are struggling to figure out what mission the Trump administration expects them to carry out, and they see the importance of their jobs waning as President Donald Trump seeks......
Unidentified assailants attacked the convoy of Balochistan Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch in Panjgur town on Thursday, officials said, with the minister and his aides remaining unharmed in the......
At least 15 people are missing after huge floods swept away houses in southern Japan, tearing up roads as they surged through villages, with authorities warning hundreds of thousands of people to......
From I am Sweetie to Eye to Eye, NFP rounds up the most memorable pop songs of our times and what led to their fame. Rashid Ahmad Tabrezi (aka RAT) emerged in 1989 with a bang. He was very much a......
THE Bahawalpur disaster has generated a debate on the conduct and motives of the people who rushed in droves to steal petrol. Questions about the common code of morality raised by the incident need......
Now this is strange. On the morning of Wednesday, as the broadcast media remained fixated on the appearance of Maryam Nawaz before the JIT, the rupee suddenly started sliding against the dollar.......
LET us first acknowledge the good among us. For the first time in the history of this country, we are moving towards a genuine culture of accountability that includes the mighty and the powerful.......
ALTAF Hussain may have successfully resisted everything the British police could throw at him, but his increasing irrelevance in Karachi has left him looking for friends in powerful places.MQM London......
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority has declared 11 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the most vulnerable to the monsoon floods in light of the ‘vulnerability and risk......
PARACHINAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra visited the Agency Headquarters Hospital, Parachinar, on Wednesday on the second day of his visit to the Kurram Agency and enquired after......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, observed Wednesday (July 5) as black day to condemn the ouster of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government by General Ziaul Haq and announced it......
PESHAWAR: A student of the Frontier Scouts Cadet College, Warsak Road, topped the Secondary School Certificate results announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar, here......
BATTAGRAM: The district headquarters hospital, Battagram, is without specialist doctors despite having all the facilities in the newly-constructed building.The hospital is meant to cater to the......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) on Wednesday sealed poultry slaughterhouse besides imposing Rs80,000 fine on two food catering services for making food in unhygienic condition and......
RAWALPINDI: Local PML-N leaders and a small number of party workers were present outside Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) on Wednesday, where Maryam Nawaz appeared before the joint investigation team......
ISLAMABAD: The investigating officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), accused of harassing journalist Taha Siddiqui, informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that he had become irrelevant to......
Mahnoor Ahmed, 18, came in third in the All Pakistan Blind Archery Championship in November last year in Rawalpindi. She is a student at Government Postgraduate College on 6th Road and is now......
ISLAMABAD: Humans are the only species on earth striving for their own disaster, the consulting adviser for policy and outreach to the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty......
RAWALPINDI: PPP’s Rawalpindi chapter observed a black day on Wednesday to condemn the coup against former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government on July 5, 1977 conducted by Gen Ziaul......
PESHAWAR: The TransAction Alliance and Blue Veins have demanded the early approval and enforcement of the draft policy for the protection of the transgender persons’ rights in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Blue......
LAHORE: Chief Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit, in collaboration with excise and taxation department, is scheduled to launch customised vehicle number plates project today (Thursday) by awarding a......
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-Punjab President Qamaruz Zaman Kaira on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to tell the nation if he actually believed a conspiracy was being hatched......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Fire engulfed a railway engine at Gojra on Wednesday which was extinguished by the municipal committee (MC) firefighters after over an hour.Witnesses said that engine of the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf spokesman Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday held back-to-back two press conferences asserting that the Sharifs became “ensnared” in contradictory statements of the family......
BAHAWALPUR: The death toll of Ahmedpur East oil tanker tragedy rose to 214 on Wednesday.According to Accidents and Emergencies Director Dr Ammir Bokhari, so far 125 bodies were unidentified, while......
GUJRANWALA: A man convicted for rape and murder of a minor boy was hanged in the central jail here on Wednesday.According to Jail Superintendent Chaudhry Asghar, convict Qasir Shah had murdered......
KARACHI: A senior police officer allegedly involved in a Rs50 million corruption case escaped from the Supreme Court, while his co-accused colleague was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that after repealing the NAB law [within Sindh] the provincial government is going to restructure and strengthen the Anti-Corruption......
KARACHI: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani’s impassioned speech on Wednesday raised the question of the legitimacy of alternative forms of government which have rebelled against the parliamentary......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Rauf Siddiqui withdrew on Wednesday his bail application in the Baldia factory fire case as police did not charge-sheet him for want of sufficient......
LARKANA: Activists of Pakistan Peoples Party wore black armbands and hoisted black flags on party offices across the province on Wednesday to observe a ‘black day’ in condemnation of Gen Ziaul Haq’s......
SUKKUR: The Sukkur district and sessions court has summoned former MPA Ahmed Ali Shah asking him to record his statement on Aug 3 on a direct complaint submitted by the Sukkur regional election......
MITHI: A married woman was axed to death allegedly by her husband’s rivals in Doori Bheel village near here on Wednesday.Sambro Bheel stated in an FIR lodged at Mithi police station that his wife......
KARACHI: The Sindh United Party (SUP) on Wednesday rejected the legislation of the Sindh government for repealing the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 which was tabled by the provincial......
IN newsrooms and on assignment around the world, journalists with Al Jazeera are trying to set aside worries that each story they cover could be their last.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,......
LONDON: Foreign funding for Islamist extremism in Britain mostly originates from Saudi Arabia, a think tank report said on Wednesday in claims that were branded as “categorically false” by the Saudi......
ALEPPO: Syrian escapees from IS languished for hours on the sizzling concrete pavements at Aleppo’s main bus station, their faces gaunt and eyes rimmed by dark circles. Just six months ago, the......
CAIRO: Four Arab states refrained on Wednesday from slapping further sanctions on Qatar but voiced disappointment at its “negative” response to their demands and said their boycott of the tiny Gulf......
LIMA: Introducing the Lady of Cao: using high-tech 3-D printing and based on the skull of an ancient mummy, scientists have reconstructed the face of a woman who governed in northern Peru 1,700 years......
WASHINGTON: A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan’s Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban, US military officials said on......
LONDON: A new England era will start when Joe Root captains the Test side against South Africa at Lord’s here on Thursday.Root was appointed in February after Alastair Cook, still in the team purely......
LONDON: New mum Victoria Azarenka continued her comeback bid for Wimbledon glory on Wednesday as Kei Nishikori and Johanna Konta ground out victories to reach the third round.Andy Murray, Rafael......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday held a reception at the Army House for Pakistan’s cricket squad that clinched the ICC Champions Trophy in England......
LONDON: Rachael Haynes returned to the Australian side earlier this year after a long gap – her last ODI before the comeback was in August 2013. On Wednesday, she played her first game of the ICC......
AFTER being taken back in the international fold nearly a quarter of a century ago, that is in 1991, South Africa one of the three founder members of the ICC along with England and Australia has now......
PLANCHER MINES: Fabio Aru emulated compatriot Vincenzo Nibali in winning the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday as reigning champion Chris Froome took over the race lead.Italian Aru won......
KINGSTON (Jamaica): Under-fire Indian batsmen would look to make amends for their startling collapse in the fourth One-day International and complete the series win when they take on West Indies in......
BARCELONA: Lionel Messi will play out the best remaining years of his trophy-rich career at Barcelona.The Spanish club said on Wednesday that Messi had agreed a three-year contract extension that......
KARACHI: The rupee plunged by 3.1 per cent in the opening hours of interbank trade on Wednesday, sparking a shortage of foreign currency in the open market as dealers preferred to hold rather than......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) acquired the banknote- and prize bond-printing functions of Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC) from the federal government on Wednesday.According......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China highlighted on Wednesday the need for adopting uniform commercial codes to address customs barriers as well as tariff, information technology and freight issues in view......
KARACHI: Cement prices have gone up by nearly Rs50 on a bag since July last year after manufacturers passed on the impact of additional taxes and duties announced in the last two budgets.The impact......
KARACHI: Revised data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday showed the current account deficit for July-May at $10.64 billion, which is $1.71bn higher than the earlier reported......
LONDON: The West’s three biggest energy corporations are lobbying Qatar to take part in a huge expansion of its gas production, handing Doha an unintended but timely boost in its bitter dispute with......
KARACHI: A record cargo volume of 52.49 million tonnes was handled at Karachi Port during 2016-17, registering a growth of 4.89 per cent over the previous year’s 50.05m tonnes.According to details,......
FRANKFURT: Competing visions of world trade are set to collide at the Group of 20 summit of world leaders in Hamburg, Germany, this week.US President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach faces off......
SINGAPORE: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is seeking 905,000 tonnes of gasoline and fuel oil for September, three tender documents showed on Wednesday.The state-owned company is seeking 10 cargoes of......
QUETTA: On Aug 8, 2016 a suicide bomb ripped through the emergency services ward of Quetta’s Civil Hospital and deprived Balochistan of 55 of its finest, and some of the most senior, lawyers. As the......
DADU: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that the PPP will continue its struggle for the establishment of a democratic process in the country.Addressing......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has condemned the summoning of two relatives of Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq by the Indian counterterrorism agency and termed it a coercive, pressure tactic......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will on Thursday (today) resume the hearing of a petition seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on......
WASHINGTON: US Senator John McCain’s warning that if Pakistan does not stop supporting the Haqqani network, the United States should change its ‘behaviour’ towards the Pakistani nation reflects the......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Accountability Law met here on Wednesday and declared the accountability bill recently passed by the Sindh Assembly as ‘unconstitutional’.The......
ISLAMABAD: All the relevant authorities looking at ways to mitigate and counter flood threats have stressed the need for improved coordination with India and Afghanistan regarding details of heavy......
QUETTA: Zafar Achakzai, chief reporter of a local newspaper held for writing against security institutions on social media, was freed on bail on Wednesday.He was picked up from his residence on June......
ISLAMABAD: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) seized with an Indian complaint relating to the conviction of its spy Kulbhushan Jadhav has been formally communicated that Attorney General......
LAHORE: In a significant development regarding hydel resources in the country, construction work on the 4,320-megawatt Dasu hydropower project will commence within a week, as civil works contractor......
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s daughter declared on Wednesday that Nawaz Sharif was the only politician who could stand for civilian supremacy and the rule of law in the country, joining the chorus......
ISLAMABAD: Estimating up to 85pc of all tanker lorries transporting oil products are not complying with prescribed standards, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) will ask the oil market......
ISLAMABAD: The army on Wednesday announced successful ‘training launch’ of an improved version of short-range nuclear-capable Nasr missile, saying it would bolster strategic deterrence against......
DUSHANBE (Tajikistan): With a focus on regional connectivity, trade and energy, Pakistan and Tajikistan agreed on Wednesday to explore new avenues of cooperation by increasing collaboration in......
Pakistan has strongly condemned the alleged harassment of relatives of Kashmiri Leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq by Indian authorities.The Foreign Office spokesperson condemned the coercive, pressure......
