Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a gang of street criminals in Karachi who had allegedly been looting people near Jinnah Terminal by posing themselves as police personnel, said a senior police......
MANY people thought Anthony Bourdain had the most enviable career in existence. He didn’t deny it.“I have the best job in the world,” the globe-trotting food-taster and culinary storyteller once told......
The G7 summit ended in farce and a renewed threat of global trade war as US President Donald Trump abruptly rejected the text of a consensus statement and bitterly insulted the Canadian host.Just......
A district magistrate in South Waziristan has banned all gatherings, rallies and processions to be held in the tribal region without the district administration's approval for a month, it emerged on......
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived on Sunday in Singapore ahead of one of the most unusual and highly anticipated summits in recent world history — a sit-down with President Donald Trump meant......
At the PIDC signal in Civil Lines, Karachi, three traffic constables signal for the traffic to stop. Impatient bikers keep creeping ahead until they occupy substantial space at the intersection. It......
A day before the passing of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) Bill in the National Assembly, which proposed the merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan......
The Supreme Court on Sunday directed the accountability court to wrap up the trial against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members in the corruption references filed by the National......
President Mamnoon Hussain at the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of States of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Qindgao on Sunday urged member states to consider the establishment of a......
LA MALBAIE: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would know within a minute whether something good will come of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, which he......
VATICAN: Pope Francis told world oil executives on Saturday that the transition to less-polluting energy sources “is a challenge of epochal proportions,” and warned that the satisfying the......
MOSCOW/LA MALBAIE: Russia has not asked to rejoin the group of the world’s leading economies and is perfectly happy working with the larger G20, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday, a......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday expressed anger over a Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) resolution which regretted that the top judge had taken suo motu notice of......
QINGDAO: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday opened a regional security summit attended by Russia and Iran with boasts of the bloc’s “unity”, just as a fractious G7 gathering was mired in......
VATICAN CITY: A Catholic priest who worked as a diplomat at the Vatican’s embassy in Washington was indicted on Saturday on charges of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada.A......
NEW DELHI: A fortnight after rumours spread via WhatsApp triggered communal violence in Meghalaya capital Shillong, social media posts about child abductors led to the lynching of two young men on......
ISLAMABAD: Few hundred people filed returns under the one-time tax amnesty scheme until June 8, 2018, contributing a sum of nearly Rs350 million to the national exchequer since the scheme’s inception......
KARACHI: Rahmat Group has signed at least 14 memorandum of understanding (MoUs) and technical collaboration agreements last month with different Chinese companies to establish Electrical Complex at......
KABUL: Shoppers in the Afghan capital are going online for everything from fashion to furniture to avoid bomb attacks and sexual harassment, with dozens of start-ups doing a brisk trade where there......
MADRID: Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is confident he will be fit enough to take part in Egypt’s World Cup opener against Uruguay in Yekaterinburg next Friday, Spanish newspaper Marca reported on......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin is welcoming football teams and fans to Russia for the World Cup, saying the tournament will be thrilling and memorable.“For our country, it’s a great joy and honor......
MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Hazara division, president Zargul Khan on Saturday said the party had awarded election tickets to women in two of Mansehra’s five provincial assembly......
PESHAWAR: Like other political parties, the PPP is facing rifts over election nominations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Also, the Bilawal Bhutto-led party is struggling to find candidates in some areas as......
PESHAWAR:The Qaumi Watan Party has warned that reigniting debate on the abandoned controversial project of Kalabagh Dam at this time is meant to create problems for the federation.These views were......
MURREE: After PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s announcement to contest election from NA 53 Islamabad, former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi may confront him as the PML-N candidate, sources close to Mr......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have decided to augment security of public places, worship places and all important buildings to thwart any untoward incident on Eidul Fitr.The final review and approval......
TAXILA: Sikhs from across the country and abroad poured into Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal, the third holiest site in the Sikh religion, to mark Shaheedi Jor Mela, the 412th death anniversary......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker government will allocate Rs198 billion to meet the province’s development and current expenditure from July to October.This was decided during a meeting......
If you proceed along Lahore’s M.M. Alam Road, just before reaching Hussain Chowk to the left is a lane. As to travel along to the right is a large brick building. This is where the last of the Parsis......
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) decision not to accommodate two former MPAs and instead give preference to newcomers has led to resentment among local party leaders and......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shahbaz Sharif chides Imran Khan for “betraying his party workers and his plans of making Naya Pakistan with the support of turncoats.”“I have a......
LAHORE: Former Minister of State for Information Mariyum Aurangzeb on Saturday said the PML-N was going to the polls with the slogan of “respect for vote and the elected government” and on the basis......
MUZAFFARGARH: Former PPP parliamentarian and former federal minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Jatoi has left the PPP and now he and his son Dawood Jatoi will contest elections as independent candidates.Mr......
LAHORE: Reconsidering its earlier boycott strategy, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has given a go-ahead to its candidates – around 200 for national and provincial assemblies – to submit nomination......
LAHORE: A PML-N leader says the party is likely to make seat adjustments in various constituencies with the Awami National Party (ANP), the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to repeat its old-timers across Punjab except a few constituencies in Lahore for the July 25 vote.The parliamentary board has almost completed......
LODHRAN: In a surprising move, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf confirmed ticket holder for NA-161 and son of Jehangir Tareen, Ali Tareen, has announced that he will not contest the election because of his......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (Bahadurabad group) senior deputy convener Amir Khan has said that Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) has been created by the establishment to divide......
LAHORE: Caretaker Chief Minister Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi says that the interim government will provide equal opportunities to all the political parties while following the framework given by the......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday allowed former federal minister for petroleum and Pakistan Peoples Party leader, Dr Asim Hussain, to travel abroad for medical treatment.Dr Asim, who is a......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court allowed on Saturday an application seeking provision of better facilities to suspended SSP Rao Anwar in the temporary detention facility in Multan Lines, Malir......
KARACHI: Top Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leadership of Karachi, including its chief Imran Khan and key figures of its Sindh chapter, will contest the general elections from Karachi, a senior party......
KARACHI: City Mayor Wasim Akhtar said on Saturday that construction of roads in Clifton would be completed in two days while the construction of roads in all districts of the city was under way.He......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the latest comments of Supreme Court Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on the Kalabagh dam project disappointed and......
KARACHI: Sindh Election Commissioner Yusuf Khattak on Saturday warned that appropriate action would be taken against the teachers of Karachi University who had refused to perform election duties.Mr......
KARACHI: Senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Saturday criticised the caretaker set-up in Sindh, saying most members of the Fazlur Rahman-led cabinet were Pakistan......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday directed the municipal authorities to clean sewers and storm-water drains across the city within a month.Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said that strict action......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has denied it was behind the abduction of a British-Pakistani activist known for criticising the military, in an incident that prompted a wave of condemnation and......
KHUZDAR: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) have agreed on a seat-to-seat adjustment in national and provincial assemblies’ constituencies in......
KARACHI: A constituency of the National Assembly in Karachi’s South district carved out after fresh delimitations is set to see many known personalities contesting in the forthcoming general......
ISLAMABAD: Following reports of resentment among Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activists over the distribution of tickets, the party has decided to constitute “reconciliatory committees” that would......
ISLAMABAD: The third deadline to complete trial against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law in corruption references lapsed on Saturday, while the Supreme Court is yet to......
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the Jamaat-i-Islami denied on Saturday that they had received funds out of Rs140 million dished out by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1990......
ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial caretaker governments appear not to care about the law as the interim prime minister and chief ministers and members of their cabinet have so far ignored the......
KARACHI: While taking suo motu notice of water crisis and hearing a petition seeking referendum on the Kalabagh dam, the chief justice of Pakistan on Saturday declared that the apex court would not......
