At least 19 Afghan police officers were killed on Saturday in a pre-dawn raid by the Taliban on a base in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said, hours before the militants announced an......
An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Saturday allowed the provision of "better facilities" to the suspended Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Rao Anwar in the temporary detention facility in Multan......
A man has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Makkah, Saudi police said on Saturday.“A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand......
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Saturday issued orders for preemptive action to be taken within two days against all cable operators broadcasting foreign media, saying "these people will air obscene......
The Taliban on Saturday announced its first ceasefire in Afghanistan since the 2001 US invasion, with a three-day halt in hostilities against the country's security forces that was greeted with......
In a reply submitted to the Supreme Court on Saturday in the Asghar Khan case, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has denied allegations of receiving Rs3.5 million for his 1990 election......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) on Friday suspended a college teacher who was accused of sexually harassing students from Bahria College during a recent......
A woman gave birth to a baby girl on the footpath on Friday night outside the teaching hospital of the Ghazi Khan Medical College in Dera Ghazi Khan.The pregnant woman had allegedly been denied......
The Supreme Court on Saturday clarified that it is not pushing for the construction of Kalabagh Dam, but is rather looking into how the water crisis in the country can be tackled.Chief Justice Mian......
Leaders of the G7 nations spent Friday hunting for a face-saving formula to mask the deep rift inflicted on the Western alliance by US President Donald Trump's assault on global trade rules.Senior......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Mohammad Azam Khan on Friday directed the deputy commissioners of all tribal districts to discontinue the collection of the Agency Welfare Fund now that Fata has......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has called an emergency meeting of all the Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise owners here on Tuesday, to take some key decisions in the backdrop of a......
DEHRADUN: Spin sensation Rashid Khan bowled an excellent last over to help Afghanistan eke out a thrilling one-run win over Bangladesh and complete a series whitewash in the third Twenty20......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has released a special grant of Rs5.3 million for the national hockey team and coaches for remaining unbeaten in the Commonwealth Games staged earlier this year.At......
NEW DELHI: Arjun Tendulkar, son of Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar, was on Thursday named in an U-19 squad for two four-day matches in Sri Lanka.Arjun, 18, was picked as part of a 15-member......
KARACHI: An absconding suspect surrendered himself to the trial court in a case pertaining to the murder of Karachi University’s dean of Islamic Studies Prof Dr Shakeel Auj, it emerged on Friday.Prof......
THATTA: Thousands of people attended the funeral of veteran politician and founder of the Awami Tehreek (AT) Rasool Bakhsh Palijo in his ancestral village, Mughar Khan Palijo, located along the hilly......
THIS week, so many questions.Could Germany, that well-mannered European economic giant, really be turning tough in its hitherto quasi-subservient relationship with the United States?And is it now......
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping gave China’s first friendship medal to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday as the neighbouring giants touted their close ties amid diplomatic and economic......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly elected Indonesia, Germany, Belgium, South Africa and the Dominican Republic as members of the Security Council on Friday for a two-year term......
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson risked a fresh Brexit row on Friday after being secretly recorded predicting a “meltdown” in the negotiations, accusing some in the government of......
SINGAPORE: Two South Korean media staff have been arrested for trespassing at the home of the North Korean ambassador to Singapore, police said on Friday, just days before a high-stakes summit......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group seized parts of a key town on the Syrian-Iraqi border on Friday in a massive operation that further confirmed the militants remain a force on the ground.IS......
KABUL/BRUSSELS: Afghan security forces killed 10 Taliban militants as a ceasefire announced by the president took effect, an official said on Friday, and security forces said they would respond if......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Friday named its candidates for 81 provincial assembly and 31 National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The province has 39 National Assembly and 99......
TIMERGARA: Serious rifts have emerged among the local leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami after the nomination of the party’s candidates for two national and five provincial assembly seats in the Lower Dir......
QUETTA: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai has accused the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of violating its own rules during the delimitation of......
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal on Friday regretted that his party was not taken on board while selecting the caretaker chief minister, saying that the......
ISLAMABAD: Though they acknowledged the efforts of parliament in merging the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, speakers of a roundtable conference on Friday......
MULTAN: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari remained unsuccessful in convincing former minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi not to contest election......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) on Friday suspended a college teacher who was accused of sexually harassing students from Bahria College during a recent......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday directed 222 companies and firms involved in written-off non-performing loans worth billions of rupees taken from commercial banks to come up with their......
LONDON: Iran said on Friday a US request for Saudi Arabia to pump more oil so that it could cover a drop in Iranian exports was “crazy and astonishing” and said Opec would not heed the appeal,......
North Korea continues to stiff Sweden over a bill for 1,000 Volvo sedans shipped back in the 1970s; a Chinese mining company called its four-year venture in the isolated nation a “nightmare”; and an......
LA MALBAIE: Top US allies scrambled on Friday to keep a Group of Seven nations summit from veering off track as President Donald Trump vowed to deal with “unfair trade practices” by Canada and the......
NEW YORK: Emerging markets struggling with higher US interest rates are likely to get little sympathy from the Federal Reserve.Currencies of such nations have been hammered in a spreading sell-off......
KARACHI: Despite tense relations, Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan reached a two-year high during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year.Even the two nations have never shared cordial......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s trade deficit soared to all-time high nearly $34 billion in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, posing one of a serious challenge for the government to curtail......
ISLAMABAD: The river flows have improved for now with river Kabul in high floods but drought-like conditions have already hit most parts of the country, affecting Kharif crops.The Indus River System......
LAHORE: The PML-N has asked Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan not to use the caretaker set-up for his party’s political gains.Reacting to Mr Khan’s letter to Caretaker Prime Minister......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued a revised schedule for the upcoming general elections, setting June 19 as the last date for scrutiny of nomination papers of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced the names of its candidates for national and provincial assembly seats by accommodating a large number of newcomers who recently joined......
ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistan Peoples Party leaders — former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani and former opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah — have criticised the decision of the......
MUZAFFARABAD: A man and a woman were injured in Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Friday, in a fresh unprovoked ceasefire violation by Indian troops from across the Line of Control......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday abolished the office of political agents and the collection of Agency Welfare Fund that had become the root cause of exploitation and corruption......
ISLAMABAD: The increase in loadshedding — even during Sehr and Iftar — has not gone unnoticed as the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has taken up the matter against the National......
ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee (NSC) on Friday reaffirmed its commitment to cooperate with an international watchdog tasked with countering illicit financing, the Financial Action Task......
