The Sindh government on Wednesday dismissed from service a former Senior Superintendent Police of Karachi Central Prison and 14 other officials after an inquiry committee found evidence of their......
Saudi Arabia's air defences on Wednesday “intercepted” a ballistic missile fired from rebel-held Yemen at Riyadh, a military spokesman said, adding two others were shot down in southern Saudi......
Disgruntled PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday dismissed the rumours regarding his meeting with PTI chairman Imran Khan saying, "Neither has the PTI contacted me nor I have contacted......
The Senate saw much commotion in its session on Wednesday after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Senator Samina Saeed moved a call-to-attention notice on the appointment of Ali Jahangir Siddiqui as......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced another flat session on Wednesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 gaining a net 10 points to close at 46,487 points.The index had opened higher and touched a......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday imposed a ban on recruitment of public servants in federal, provincial and local government institutions.In an order sent to the federal and......
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that “missiles will be coming” in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, defying Russian warnings against a strike.Upping the stakes in an......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday told the Senate that over a billion rupees were spent on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's international trips during his third term in office.In a......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday constituted a three-member conflict resolution committee after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) initiated a dispute resolution process against the......
Algeria's state news agency says that a military plane has crashed near the military base of Boufarik in Algeria.The Algerie Presse service agency said the Iliouchine-type plane was headed for Bechar......
A major fire that erupted in the Mal Khana [warehouse] of the city courts also engulfed the record house, destroying case properties, valuable record and ammunition, DawnNewsTV reported on......
LAHORE: Stunned by recent defections from among the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) political leaders of the south Punjab region, party president Shahbaz Sharif has begun meeting the PML-N......
LONDON: Gold prices crept higher on Tuesday as the dollar weakened and as investors awaited potential US action against the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.Spot gold was up 0.1 per cent at......
KARACHI: As loashedding receded in recent years, the market for generators collapsed in the city of Karachi. But the latest row between K-Electric and its main fuel supplier, the Sui Southern Gas......
KARACHI: The country received $14.6 billion remittances during the first nine months of this fiscal year, registering a 3.5 per cent year-on-year growth.The month of March proved vital for the......
ISLAMABAD: The export of services dropped by nearly 44 per cent year-on-year to reach $407.02 million in February, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday.The export of services has......
NEW DELHI: Expressing deep anguish over the ongoing escalation of violence in Kashmir, an Indian citizens group on Tuesday said that violence in the valley is showing no signs of abating and is, in......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump welcomed the Emir of Qatar to the White House on Tuesday, barely one year after alleging his government funded terrorism at a “high level.” Drawing a line under......
BUDAPEST: One of Hungary’s two national opposition dailies will shut down on Wednesday due to financial problems, its publisher said, in a sign of rapidly deteriorating prospects for media freedom......
ISLAMABAD: The US diplomat, who reportedly rammed into a motorcycle, killing one and injuring another on Saturday, will have to face trial, either in Pakistan or his home country.In case the US......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department on Tuesday launched an enrolment campaign to achieve the target of enrolling 850,000 children in nursery classes......
FRANKFURT: Tens of thousands of air passengers were stranded on Tuesday as workers at airlines Lufthansa and Air France staged strikes that crippled traffic at several major European......
LAHORE: Long-discarded Fawad Alam has been given another chance to reclaim his Test berth after the 32-year-old left-hander was named among the 25 probables for Pakistan’s upcoming Tests in Ireland......
HARARE: Australia will tour Zimbabwe for the first time since 2014 in July, with the dates for the T20 International tri-series, it was confirmed on Tuesday.Australia take on the hosts and Pakistan......
NEW DELHI: Google has appealed against a ruling by India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of “search bias”, while the website that brought the case also challenged the outcome, complaining......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution, condemning the bombing of a seminary in the Afghan province of Kunduz that claimed the lives of a large number of......
MUZAFFARABAD: A woman was injured in Poonch district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in Indian firing from across the Line of Control (LoC), police said.Sonia Akbar suffered a bullet injury......
ISLAMABAD: While a parliamentary committee, chaired by National Assembly Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi, has been looking into irregularities in delimitation of NA constituencies, Free and Fair......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan called the parliamentary committee on Kashmir a complete “failure” and has challenged the credentials of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief......
ISLAMABAD: Seminaries are upset over slow-paced registration process being pursued by the provincial governments as part of their efforts to reform the religious education system.The concern was......
UNITED NATIONS: The United States and Russia both failed in their attempts at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to set up a mechanism for determining the blame for a suspected chemical......
LAHORE: Stunned by recent defections from among the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) political leaders of the south Punjab region, party president Shahbaz Sharif has begun meeting the PML-N......
QUETTA: The Supreme Court regretted on Tuesday that health and education sectors in Balochistan were worse than those in Sindh and warned that if the situation did not improve the court would......
