PPP Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday expressed concern over an "undisclosed" $700 million fine allegedly imposed on Pakistan by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's wife, Begum Kulsoom, arrived at a London hospital on Wednesday for her third surgery.In a video shared by Maryam Nawaz, the Sharifs' daughter, Begum Kulsoom......
A bust of Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr Abdus Salam was unveiled at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters in Vienna on Wednesday by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, a......
Pakistani and Chinese researchers have discovered a fungus which feeds on plastic in a rubbish dump in Islamabad.A study titled "Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Aspergillus tubingensis",......
The bulls continued to bear on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), with the benchmark KSE-100 index closing 94 points higher on Wednesday, marking a gain of 0.22per cent.The index hovered above the......
Two men were arrested on Wednesday over last week's London Underground terror attack in which 30 people were injured, bringing the total number of people in custody to five, police said.The men, aged......
Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday confirmed the death sentences awarded to four hardcore terrorists involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, Inter-Services Public......
United States-backed fighters have seized 90 per cent of Raqqa from the militant Islamic State (IS) group, a monitoring said on Wednesday as they announced they were in the “final stages” of......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Iranian President Muhammad Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday agreed to "maintain a trajectory of positive progress" between the two countries and the resolution of......
Pakistan ranks high on the list of countries most threatened by the impending effects of climate change. Numerous studies show that temperatures in certain parts of Asia will exceed habitable levels......
A family in Peshawar was temporarily apprehended by staff at the Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar on September 18 for possessing a bag containing mosquitoes suspected to be carriers of a lethal......
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Haripur on Wednesday began hearing the Mashal Khan lynching case against 57 suspects indicted a day earlier by the court.The court held its proceedings inside the......
In a strongly worded speech in the National Assembly (NA), former interior minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday criticised Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for making a "courtesy call"......
The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday suspended the bailable arrest warrants issued against Imran Khan following his failure to show up for the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) contempt of......
Two more victims of the Tuesday explosion in a cement factory, including the in-charge of the Bomb Disposal Squad, Inspector Tahir Malik, succumbed to their injuries in Karachi Civil Hospital on......
The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted for hearing an appeal filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against a Lahore High Court (LHC) decision to acquit Nawaz Sharif and several members......
When Dan Leubitz needed a contractor for a project with his Israeli tech firm, one address in the list of tenders caught his eye: Gaza.It was 2015, only a year after Israel fought a brutal war with......
Airbus on Wednesday inaugurated its first completion centre for large aircraft in China, a new asset for the European manufacturer in heated competition with American rival Boeing.China is one of the......
Weary and uncertain, they carried whatever they could on their backs, trudging through monsoon rains and enduring relocation and extortion attempts as they struggle to find small patches of land that......
A man lost his life as a fire broke out following a blast at a cosmetic factory's chemical storage facility off Shahrah-e-Faisal, police said on Wednesday.Factory employee Salman Sarwar died due to......
The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) anti-corruption tribunal ACT, while announcing its short verdict on Wednesday, awarded batsman Khalid Latif a five-year ban and Rs1 million fine in the Pakistan......
Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died aged 77, his son told AFP on Tuesday.Petrov, whose extraordinary......
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmar to take back some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the Buddhist-dominated country.Hasina, speaking to......
A National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore team paid a visit to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar's Islamabad residence after an accountability court on Wednesday issued bailable warrants for his arrest......
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appealed Tuesday to Pakistan to work together to curb extremists, seeing an opportunity as the US sends in more troops.Addressing the UN General Assembly, Ghani said US......
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked Mexico on Tuesday has surged to 224 people, including 117 in the capital, said Interior Minister Miguel Osorio Chong.The dead included at least......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with the two sides resolving to remain engaged and carry......
Jonny Bairstow struck a maiden one-day international hundred as England condemned West Indies to a seven-wicket defeat at Old Trafford on Tuesday that means the twice former champions can no longer......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan on Tuesday urged jehadi and extremist organisations to abandon violence before participating in electoral politics.“Entry of these groups......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday ordered freezing salaries of Islamia College University vice-chancellor, its registrar and a teacher Dr Enayat Ali Shah for not filing comments in a......
THIS week’s fresh initiative for a Hamas-Fatah rapprochement is bound to be viewed with scepticism, given the depressing history of previous attempts to reconcile the rival Palestinian factions. It......
ISLAMABAD: The owner of the multi-storey Grand Hyatt Hotel, which has now been sealed, gave several apartments away as ‘gifts’, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) revealed on Tuesday.FIA Director......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Deputy Commissioner retired Capt Mushtaq Ahmed told a Senate body on Tuesday that most private hospitals in the federal capital charge each admitted patient 10pc miscellaneous......
ISLAMABAD: Documentaries and short films on the effects of war, hunger, social abuses and other issues were screened on the second day of the Asia Peace Film Festival at the Pakistan National Council......
THE nature of work and its corresponding job skills are constantly changing. It is estimated that 65pc of children entering primary school and up to 40pc of tertiary students will ultimately end up......
THE World Happiness Report operates from the premise that happiness can be measured, counted up via surveys, tabulated in statistics and then ranked by country. This year’s report ranks 155 countries......
Victory for Kulsoom Nawaz in Sunday’s by-election in Lahore was a foregone conclusion — but not by such a narrow margin. After all, NA-120 is the constituency that the party and the Sharif family had......
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa has started a new program titled ‘Children Lok Mela’ for “harnessing culture with education” in collaboration with the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).The first of the......
LAHORE: The recommendations furnished by high-powered panel of the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) on the fresh admissions for 2017-18 appear to be heavily tilted in favour of private......
LAHORE: Two minor boys got a new lease of life after going through a successful bone marrow transplant at the Children’s Hospital on Tuesday.Two-and-a-half-year-old Bilal and four-year-old Aasher......
KARACHI: Around 40,000 individuals from over 40 countries have registered themselves to attend Ashra Mubaraka to be conducted by the Dawoodi Bohra community head this year in Karachi.Head of the......
KARACHI: Dried parts of dozens of freshwater turtles were recovered from a Hong Kong-bound consignment at the airport export cargo offices on Tuesday, wildlife department officials told......
SUKKUR: A Rangers’ sepoy, two police officials and a labourer lost their lives and 11 other people, including five personnel of law-enforcement agencies, were wounded in a series of blasts......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has shifted some 90 “high-profile” inmates from the Central Prison Karachi to jails in other districts of the province and Rawalpindi on advice of intelligence and law......
SAN JUAN: Hurricane Maria caused “mind boggling damage”, ripping off roofs across the small island of Dominica before pushing on toward the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday as the second......
TWITTER Inc., under pressure from governments around the world to combat online extremism, said that improving automation tools are helping block accounts that promote terrorism and violence.In the......
NEW YORK: Tell your bae or your bestie: The mobile game Words With Friends is adding thousands of pop culture words as part of its largest dictionary update in the game’s eight-year history.Game......
NAYPYIDAW: Aung San Suu Kyi pledged on Tuesday to hold rights violators to account over the Rohingya crisis but refused to blame Myanmar’s army, as the UN chief demanded an end to the military......
NAIROBI: Kenya’s chief justice on Tuesday hit out at political leaders and their supporters over a wave of threats against his court, which annulled last month’s presidential election over widespread......
MOSCOW: Russian officials and Orthodox priests on Tuesday unveiled a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide.A priest......
ASHGABAT: The influential head of the Olympic Council of Asia has dashed hopes that athletes from Oceania nations, including Australia and New Zealand, might be able to compete in the Asian Games......
KARACHI: Fancied Neighbourhood Club swept aside PECHS Girls College 39-14 in the final to clinch the Sindh Sports Board (SSB) girls basketball tournament at the latter’s court on Tuesday.The final......
TOKYO: Fifth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova is targeting a strong finish to the season after dispatching Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-3 to book a second-round spot in the Pan Pacific Open here on......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Greens annexed the 2nd SSB Women’s Softball Festival title here on Monday after they defeated Sindh Blues by five runs in the final played at the Hyderabad Club Ground.The recorded a......
JOHANNESBURG: New South Africa coach Ottis Gibson faces a fast bowling crisis ahead of the two-Test home series against Bangladesh that starts on Sept 28, as he plots a path to return the side to......
MANCHESTER: West Indies captain Jason Holder led from the front with 41 not out in his side’s 204 for nine against England in the first One-day International at Old Trafford here on Tuesday.Holder’s......
ISLAMABAD: The arrangements, including those concerning security, made by the local administration in Lahore and the Pakistan Cricket Board for the Independence Cup T20 series staged between......
LAHORE: Fast bowler Mohammad Irfan, who had already completed a six-month ban in the spot-fixing case, will deliver a lecture at the NCA here on Wednesday to apprise the Pakistan probables — who have......
THE World XI tour to Pakistan is over and I believe we have done what we set out to achieve. We have managed a significant step towards taking big-ticket international cricket back there after an......
LONDON: Britain’s troubled former heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury challenged the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) body to either hurry up and ban him for taking an illegal substance or clear him to resume......
ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee (IPCC) on Tuesday recommended with a majority vote to give rights over all future oil and gas findings to the respective producer provinces so......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Tuesday cleared a total of 27 development projects having a total estimated cost of Rs80.7 billion.This included 24 development projects of......
KARACHI: The current account deficit for July-August grew 102 per cent on an annual basis to $2.6 billion, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday.The gap between......
RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan has said Pakistan has been among the top six sugar-exporting countries since 2012.The country produces......
ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is holding an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the $225 million penalty imposed on Habib Bank Ltd’s (HBL) branch in New York City, the National......
BEIJING: Banking regulators in Beijing and Shanghai have ordered local cryptocurrency exchanges to shut down, state media reported on Tuesday, in the latest blow to the once flourishing Chinese......
KARACHI: The contributions being received by the Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) are far less than the amount being handed out in pension payments annually, said EOBI Chairman Khaqan......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Tuesday remained steady as sustained buying orders from needy spinners helped prices stay firm at overnight level. The outlook remained positive and sentiments......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has raised $1.87 billion in a new Islamic bond issue as the kingdom bids to finance a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices.Demand was strong for the third sale of Islamic......
KARACHI: Bank Alfalah received the Best Bank Award for 2017 for demonstrating “the most significant contribution to national development and the most effective management of its resources, including......
MUZAFFARABAD: Authorities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) arrested on Tuesday five people associated with intra-Kashmir trade for alleged attempt to smuggle drugs to India-held Kashmir from the......
ISLAMABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah asked the federal government on Tuesday to release block-wise data of the census to allay fears of political parties.Speaking at a ‘Meet the Press’......
FAISALABAD: With the passing away of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, the country in general and the Punjab literary world in particular, has lost a great poet, novelist, playwright and a short story writer.......
ISLAMABAD: Upon being told that the Rawaj Act, recently approved by the cabinet and laid before the National Assembly, would be withdrawn, lawmakers from the upper house expressed concerns that the......
ISLAMABAD: The provinces on Tuesday threatened to seek intervention of the Supreme Court if the Centre does not take steps for early finalisation of the National Finance Commission (NFC) award.The......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday agreed that the country was faced with enormous security threats and challenges, but insisted that the civil and military leaderships were fully......
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s endorsement of Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif’s contention that Pakistan needs to “put its house in order” has exposed cracks in the ranks of the ruling Pakistan......
WASHINGTON: In his first address to the United Nations on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump threatened to totally destroy North Korea and hinted at the possibility of rescinding nuclear deal with......
LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday indicted former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and eight others in a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference on the charge of making illegal......
LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of the alleged use of the Supreme Court name for political purposes.Talking to journalists here on......
Taking on PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari in a jalsa in Hyderabad, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said the former president would be 'chased out' of politics "just as Nawaz......
A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.National Civil Protection chief......
