A jirga was held in Miranshah, North Waziristan Agency (NWA), on Sunday to discuss the issue of compensation to affected shopkeepers the area, the military’s media wing reported.According to......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, during a second visit to Karachi in as many weeks, met with senior leaders of the MQM-P's Bahadurabad faction on Sunday and vowed to make the metropolis "the New......
Two men belonging to the Hazara community were killed, while a third was injured in an incident of firing in Quetta's Western Bypass area on Sunday.Police sources said unknown miscreants opened fire......
The chief justice (CJP) while hearing a suo motu case against the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) said on Sunday that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) would investigate alleged......
Politicians on Sunday backed the Pakhtun Tahafuz Movement's (PTM) right to protest, a day after a number of its leaders and allies were held in Lahore following the district administration's refusal......
President Donald Trump’s trade policies are taking some air out of the high-flying economic optimism that had prevailed among American companies and consumers since his 2016 election.Confidence......
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others.“It happened at the entrance gate of......
ISLAMABAD: Fearing contempt of court proceedings, the Ministry of Housing and Works not only withdrew a notification that took away the entitlement of judges of Islamabad’s subordinate judiciary to......
LANDI KOTAL: More women registered as voters than men during the registration campaign in the two National Assembly constituencies of Khyber Agency for the forthcoming general elections.Eligible......
RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Raffique on Saturday painted a rosy picture of Pakistan Railways and said it would earn over Rs50 billion by end of the current fiscal year.The......
LAHORE: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday suspended a decision of the Punjab University syndicate of giving its 80-kanal land to the government for the construction of a grid station and......
FAISALABAD: A teacher of Govt Boys Primary School, Chak 34-JB, was arrested for torturing a seven-year-old child publicly and hitting a man with a hammer who tried to save the victim.The Sandal Bar......
HYDERABAD: The All Sindh RO (Reverse Osmosis) Plants Association on Saturday demanded immediate end to the “crackdown” on its members by the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and appealed to Chief......
LONDON: British track legend Mohamed Farah had few peers in distance championship running but he may find a few better than him on the road in Sunday’s London Marathon.The 35-year-old — who achieved......
KARACHI: Cleaning of storm-water drains and sewers in the metropolis before the upcoming monsoon in June seems improbable as the proposed work is unlikely to begin before mid-July owing to technical......
ROME: Roma enjoyed a perfect dress rehearsal for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final tie with Liverpool when Radja Nainggolan and Patrick Schick struck after a Francesco Vicari own......
LONDON: Australia batsman Matt Renshaw marked his debut in English first-class cricket’s County Championship with a remarkable hundred for Somerset against Worcestershire at Taunton on Friday.Renshaw......
The good news for Fawad Alam, of late, has been his rejection rather than selection for the twin tour of Ireland and England. He can continue to be the hero, the talk of the town, every Twitterati’s......
ISLAMABAD: While Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistan Muslim League-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz are already in the UK, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman......
NEW DELHI: India’s cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide......
THE chatter is on. Saudi Arabia, for obvious reasons, would be happy to see crude prices rise to $80 or even $100, Reuters quoted three industry sources as saying. This means, despite the glut being......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is home to 100 million adults without a bank account, with 13 per cent adults citing religious concerns as a reason for not having account at a financial institution, a World Bank......
KARACHI: Stressing upon the need for broadening tax base through reforms, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) in its budgetary proposals urged the government to......
ISLAMABAD: The Commerce Division has come up with a National Tariff Policy seeking reduction on more than 450 tariff lines in the budget 2018-19 to enhance export competitiveness and productivity of......
GAZA CITY: The family of a Palestinian professor and Hamas member accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency of assassinating him on the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.Malaysian authorities said Fadi......
KABUL: An Afghan official has said that at least six local police were killed when a group of Taliban fighters attacked and overran their checkpoint in northern Sari Pul province.Zabi Amani,......
HOUSTON: Past presidents, family and friends came together on Saturday to bid farewell to Barbara Bush, the matriarch of one of America’s most prominent political dynasties, at a funeral service in......
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels began withdrawing from an enclave northeast of Damascus on Saturday and will go to northern Syria, state TV and a rebel official said, in a surrender agreement that marks......
WASHINGTON: Civilian authorities in Pakistan have generally maintained effective control over the security forces, says the US State Department’s annual report on human rights.The report, released in......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabian security forces shot down a toy drone in the capital Riyadh on Saturday, a senior Saudi official and the state news agency said, after videos were posted online showing gunfire......
KARACHI: In a rejoinder to a letter sent by federal Power Minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday asked the Centre to delink the issue of additional......
ISLAMABAD: As the controversy surrounding the Senate elections deepened after the allegation that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had been “ordered from the top” to vote for Sadiq Sanjrani and......
Artist and designer Adil Salahuddin is fortunate. He is alive. He can read in his lifetime this tribute to his work as an artist and designer par excellence of postage stamps. Titled Message Sent:......
In a bid to not let the province's set security protocols be affected by the Supreme Court's orders, the Sindh government has added several new categories to the list of personnel entitled to police......
