Terrorists and hate groups continue to get their propaganda onto social media platforms despite efforts by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to shut them down, a US Senate panel heard on......
Returning from a UN Security Council visit to Afghanistan, US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday stressed the Kabul government wants world powers to step up pressure on Pakistan.Haley joined the 14......
The girl accompanying Intizar Ahmed, who was killed allegedly by Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) officials in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Karachi, recorded her statement before police on Wednesday,......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar has taken notice of dual citizenship of civil servants and judges of superior and district courts, read a statement issued by the apex court.Justice......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday said a new tax strategy was in the works which, when implemented, would see an increase in the minimum threshold of taxable income and would also......
Police in Slovenia say they have found 20 migrants from Pakistan in a van that crashed after entering the country illegally from Croatia.They say a patrol chased the van, which then swerved off the......
The wreck of an Iranian oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship off China this month has been located, Beijing said on Wednesday, but gave no new details about the environmental impact of the......
Hundreds of thousands of rupees have been skimmed out of 32 accounts of a private bank located in the Saddar area of Rawalpindi, indicating the presence of ATM hackers in the twin cities including......
AFTER a humiliating defeat at Dunedin, Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed had hinted at making changes in the side when he said the team management will come up with the best eleven during a post-match......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) continued in the green on Wednesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 419 points to close at 43,359.The index opened lower, touching the day's low of 42,874......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced that it has finalised every district's share of seats in the national and provincial assemblies, and also issued a notification in......
It all started with the Pakistan Cricket Board opening up the sale of a limited number of tickets for the one-day cricket matches between India and Pakistan in March, 2004.The moment we saw that news......
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The medico-legal report of a four-year-old girl whose body was found on Sunday evening in Mardan suggests she might have been raped before being murdered, Inspector General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)......
The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and other opposition parties on Wednesday kicked off their movement to “force the PML-N out of power — both in the federal and provincial governments” with a protest......
India collapsed to 151 all out on the final day of the second Test to lose the series in South Africa on Wednesday.The defeat ended a run of nine straight series wins for top-ranked India, was its......
At least one man was severely injured in a drone strike allegedly carried out by a US spy plane in Kurram Agency's Badshah Kot area near the Pak-Afghan border.According to officials, the man severely......
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced it would transfer $2 billion to Yemen's central bank, after desperate calls for funding from the war-torn country's president and prime minister.“To address the......
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was jailed for the second time on Wednesday for his role in mass pro-democracy protests as concern grows that prison terms for young campaigners are shutting down......
Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday ordered Attorney General of Pakistan Ashtar Ausaf to form a judicial commission to probe the murder of social worker Perween Rahman.The case was being heard by a......
Karachi police on Wednesday registered a first information report (FIR) against suspects responsible for a suicide attack on Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar.A day earlier,......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday, after being briefed by Punjab Additional Prosecutor Mohammad Jafar, issued arrest orders for officers who had used fake degrees to get inducted into Punjab......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgement on a petition filed against the Pakistan Awami Tehreek-led (PAT) protest being held on The Mall today.The PAT is set to relaunch its......
A NEW chapter is set to open in the politics of protests and sit-ins today and it may be the most confusing yet.Tahirul Qadri’s quixotic quest for justice in the Model Town massacre of 2014 will......
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad on Wednesday granted an interim bail to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders Shireen Mazari, Asad Umar and Arif Alvi after they surrendered in three......
KARACHI: The nomination of half-a-dozen country’s stalwarts of yore for the Hall of Fame by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) drew severe criticism at a press conference held at the Abdul Sattar......
WHANGERAI (New Zealand): Shaheen Shah Afridi’s display of traditional fast-bowling saw him claim a six-wicket haul as Pakistan put their ICC Under-19 World Cup campaign back on track with a......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed sugar mills owners to purchase sugar cane from growers at the price of Rs172 per 40 kilograms till further orders.Headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq has said the Muslim world has remained a theatre of wars, violence and worries and Muslim communities across the globe are passing through a saga of......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday gave its assent to enhancement of punishments over violations of the Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance, increasing penalties for violating the sanctity of the holy......
KARACHI: The Sindh legislature was on Tuesday informed that the Sindh government was ready to hand the property tax collections to the district governments in a few months after the municipal......
A NEW chapter is set to open in the politics of protests and sit-ins today and it may be the most confusing yet.Tahirul Qadri’s quixotic quest for justice in the Model Town massacre of 2014 will......
BANGKOK: Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed that they will try to complete the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar within two years,......
KARACHI: Legislators from the upper house of parliament on Tuesday stressed the removal of encroachments for the revival of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) as one of them said that despite much media......
SANAA: The war in Yemen has killed or injured more than 5,000 children and left another 400,000 severely malnourished and fighting for their lives, the UN children’s agency said on Tuesday.In a......
KARACHI: Paying tribute to one of the most extraordinary man in history, TDF Ghar’s exhibition titled The Jinnahs opened on Tuesday with the aim to bring the Quaid’s personal life out of the shadows,......
More than 3,000 UK citizens purchased fake degrees from Pakistan-based IT company Axact in 2013 and 2014, a BBC Radio 4 investigation has revealed.The news comes just months after an in-depth......
VANCOUVER: Allied world powers met on Tuesday for crisis talks on the North Korean nuclear missile threat, but without key player China, there seemed little chance of a breakthrough.Canada and the......
WASHINGTON: Three out of every four individuals convicted of international terrorism-related charges in US federal courts between Sept 11, 2001 and Dec 31, 2016 were foreign-born, says an official......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally asked China to encourage its products — mainly the eatables — into its market to contain tilted expansion in bilateral trade and focus on future administration of the......
NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist government is ending a decades-long policy of offering discounted airfares to Muslims embarking on the Haj pilgrimage, it announced on Tuesday.The right-wing......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday rejected a plea for the submission of fresh evidence in the PTI foreign funding case, including details of ‘illegal foreign funds’......
KARACHI: While rights activists, teachers and students called the death of Prof Dr Hasan Zafar Arif a “murder” and asked the chief justice of Pakistan on Tuesday to take notice of it, police......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court full bench on Tuesday issued notices to federal and provincial governments and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on petitions challenging the......
LAHORE: The opposition parties’ movement to “force the PML-N out of power – both in the federal and provincial governments” – kicks off in Lahore on Wednesday (today) on the call of the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Nafeesa Inayatullah Khan Khattak on Tuesday tabled an amendment to the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) Act 2010, which aims to discourage......
MARDAN: The district nazim and local doctors have claimed that the four-year-old girl, whose body was found on Sunday evening, was assaulted before her murder.District nazim Himayatullah Mayar told......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing serious concerns over the revolt within his party’s lawmakers from Balochistan, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has convened a meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday a review petition seeking to overturn its judgement which exonerated Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)......
BARMER: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched the construction of a $6.8 billion refinery in the western state of Rajasthan, in the hopes of meeting the rising fuel demand.By 2030,......
BRUSSELS: More central banks in Europe revealed plans on Tuesday to hold yuan as part of their foreign currency reserves, highlighting the Chinese currency’s rise into an elite league of the world’s......
PESHAWAR: The stalemate in the Pakistan-US relations has brought millions of Afghan nationals, including 1.4 million registered refugees, into the spotlight again as the federal government has......
STRASBOURG: Leaders of the European Union institutions weighed into a new British debate on whether to hold a second referendum on Brexit by saying on Tuesday that Britons would be welcome to stay in......
KARACHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell 2.8 per cent to $1.38 billion in the first half of 2017-18, although inflows from China rose 2.4 times, the State Bank of Pakistan reported on......
ISLAMABAD: Saying that the federal government is transgressing the powers of the Council of Common Interests (CCI), the Sindh government has asked the centre to “rescind unilateral changes” to the......
A BBC investigation has thrown new light on the Axact scandal involving business of fake professional degrees of non-existent colleges and universities.Contrary to the common perception in Pakistan......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has claimed more than $23 billion of reimbursements from the US between 2001 and 2017 but only received a little more than half of its claims, about $14bn, shows a report based......
ISLAMABAD: A day before the opposition’s anti-government protest in Lahore, the members of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the......
ISLAMABAD: The first diplomatic engagement between Pakistan and the United States after the mini-crisis created by President Donald Trump’s tweet ended with Washington renewing its demand for......
KASUR: Law-enforcement agencies have yet to make any breakthrough in their search for clues leading to the arrest of the rapist(s) and killer(s) of the girl, whose body was recovered on Jan 9 from a......
JUST as the situation seemed to be settling down a bit, the country was caught in another whirlpool of political uncertainty. The game is on and it is getting murkier. The political re-engineering in......
IN a recent article for the New York Times, Adam Grant, a professor at the Wharton Business School (which recently beat Harvard for the top spot among US business schools), recounted a curious......
JUST as the situation seemed to be settling down a bit, the country was caught in another whirlpool of political uncertainty. The game is on and it is getting murkier. The political re-engineering in......
India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.The defence acquisition council cleared the purchase......
