The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested 19 prospective illegal immigrants trying to cross the border into Iran illegally, DawnNewsTV reported.The men were hiding in the luggage......
The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency on Monday announced to have "arrested a former Pakistani politically exposed person", aged 40, along with his 30-year-old wife, "in connection with alleged......
Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Saudi Arabia on a two-day tour from Sept 18 on the invitation of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, read a statement issued by the PM......
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that a medical board formed under the surgeon general shall examine Dr Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed, the suspects in ongoing money laundering......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday warned that his party will hold protests against the PTI government if it fails to form a commission to investigate the rigging allegations regarding the......
China has lodged a diplomatic complaint accusing Swedish police of treating Chinese tourists “brutally” after a family was roughly ejected from a Stockholm hotel, the foreign ministry said on......
An auction of a fleet of 102 luxury and surplus vehicles kept at Prime Minister House in Islamabad is underway, with 61 vehicles sold so far, including five bulletproof vehicles. The auction of 21......
Following a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Monday, Minister of Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar Khan broke down the increase in gas prices across the country for media......
President Dr Arif Alvi is addressing the lawmakers of Pakistan for the first time in a joint sitting of the parliament.The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had claimed that the main opposition......
The Supreme Court has taken up the issue of bottled water.This presents an excellent opportunity: water experts have for decades decried the irrational prices attached to water, and regularly blame......
The deadline for overseas Pakistanis to register on the i-voting website launched by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) expired on Monday, DawnNews TV reported.Out of 7.9 million Pakistanis......
As the five-day parole granted to them by the Punjab government neared its end, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law are being taken back to Rawalpindi's......
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an application of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Sept 10 decision to proceed with the petitions of former......
Echoing some of United States President Donald Trump's rhetoric, authorities in Egypt are taking aim at an alleged barrage of "fake news" they say is meant to sow division and undermine the rule of......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a meeting with British Home Secretary Sajid Javid at the Foreign Office on Monday stressed the need for expansion in cooperation between Pakistan and the......
The Taliban on Monday attacked Afghan police and military bases, killing at least 10 members of the security forces, Afghan officials said.In northwestern Badghis province, five officers were killed,......
WASHINGTON: “What’s the news?” has become a familiar refrain for consumers with smart speakers, opening up a new channel for publishers but also raising concerns about the growing influence of tech......
The Supreme Court on Monday, while hearing a case pertaining to the transfer of the District Police Officer (DPO) Pakpattan, rejected a report submitted by the former Punjab Inspector General of......
THIRTY years ago in December, the modern exchange of scholars between the US and China began. Since then, Chinese academics have become the most prolific global contributors to publications in......
WILSON: Florence drenched North Carolina with yet more rain on Sunday and officials warned residents that “the worst is yet to come” from a storm that has killed at least 14 people, as rivers inland......
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday his country is taking action to stop its foes from acquiring sophisticated arms, hours after Damascus said Israeli missiles......
LONDON: London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for another referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, saying the prime minister’s handling of Brexit negotiations had become “mired in confusion......
YANGON: At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year prison terms handed to the pair this month......
BERLIN: Kenya’s Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge pulverised the marathon world record with a blistering run on Sunday, slicing a staggering 78 seconds off the previous best to land the one major......
LAS VEGAS: Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin fought 24 rounds in the space of a year, with little to pick between them.When the scorecards were totalled on Saturday night, though, the judges......
LONDON: Andriy Yarmolenko scored twice on his first start for West Ham United as they climbed off the foot of the English Premier League table with a 3-1 win away to Everton on Sunday.It was the......
HYDERABAD: Sindh’s nationalist, national and religious parties have strongly reacted to Chief Justice of Pakistan’s assertion he will launch work on Kalabagh dam after having built Diamer Bhasha and......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Super League is all set to grow bigger and better as the league approaches the sale of its next rights cycle.The PSL franchise representatives and PCB officials met at the......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah will set a rare example on Monday (today) when he will be delivering a second speech of a single fiscal year’s budget to seek approval from the newly......
KARACHI: The conviction rate remained zero per cent in the special anti-encroachment court (AEC) in Karachi — the lone special court functioning in the province — that acquitted all the nominated......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Imran Khan has agreed to an independent audit of five per cent of census blocks in Karachi and Hyderabad to address reservations of various sides on the provisional results of......
PESHAWAR: Around 40,000 students are passing through constant stress owing to frequent cancellation of the entrance test for admission to public and private medical and dental colleges in Khyber......
ISLAMABAD: It has been four months since the Capital Development Authority (CDA) board decided to hire a consultant for the much-needed first revision of Islamabad’s master plan.But so far there has......
CHAKWAL: The PML-Q has a clear shot at winning in NA-65, Chakwal-II, after PML-N candidate Sardar Faiz Tamman unexpectedly withdrew his candidature.PML-Q candidate Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, who had the......
PESHAWAR: The provincial health department has started posting of doctors in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas as part of the plan of its merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The first......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi will make his maiden address to a joint sitting of parliament on Monday (today) as the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) claims that the main opposition Pakistan......
KASUR: A 20-year-old youth was gang-raped by three suspects at gunpoint at village Chah Kalalawala Khoh in the limits of the Phoolnagar Police Station on Sunday.According to the first information......
LAHORE: Speakers at a seminar on Sunday opposed the division of Punjab into smaller provinces (South Punjab province) as they said it would not serve the people of Punjab and ultimately lead to......
PAKISTAN’S small automotive market saw months of robust growth recently as the market size of locally assembled cars, jeeps, commercial vehicles and vans increased to 260,000 units in 2017-18; but......
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday put an immediate ban on the commercialisation of residential plots/properties in provincial metropolis and ordered the Lahore Development......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar says he himself is monitoring progress on 100-day agenda of Prime Minister Imran Khan.Reforms in education, health and other sectors are preference of the Pakistan......
ANALYSTS with a populist bent have been toying with the idea that Pakistan can steer clear of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mainly by borrowing dollars from Beijing and Riyadh. These voices......
Pakistan’s fish and seafood exports can easily fetch a billion dollars a year. Our fisheries sector can contribute more to agricultural GDP if authorities come up with a result-oriented revival......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior will discuss on Monday (today) the issue of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and Pakistan’s plan to get out of its grey list.According to......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to constitute a task force on energy sector reforms led by a key player among the independent power producers.On the desire of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the......
QUETTA: Around 20,000 personnel of police, Levies force and Frontier Corps will be deployed in Balochistan to provide security to mourning processions on the 7th and 10th of Muharram.This information......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party’s (ANP) provincial president, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, has requested Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar not to talk about construction of Kalabagh dam,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights will take up the issue of Pakistanis languishing in jails of foreign countries.Thousands of such individuals need legal assistance.Last......
DAMASCUS: Syrians in government-controlled areas cast their ballots on Sunday in the first local elections there since 2011, when uprising in the country erupted against President Bashar al-Assad’s......
ISLAMABAD: Amid sluggish revenue collection performance, the audit machinery of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is complaining about suppression of its audit functions due to massive shortage of......
WASHINGTON: Taliban leaders are demanding closure of US bases in Afghanistan and release of hundreds of their prisoners for continuing peace talks with the United States, the US media reported on......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has warned of strong “resistance” if the controversial Kalabagh dam project is revived, terming such a move an “utter disrespect” to parliament and the......
Pakistan flattened Hong Kong by eight wickets in their opening match of the 2018 Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Here are the key takeaways from that encounter:1- The......
HONG KONG: Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into mainland China late Sunday after leaving a trail of destruction in Hong Kong and Macau and killing at least 59 people in the northern Philippines.The world’s......
ADEN: Fresh clashes and air strikes have killed 32 rebels around Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, hospital sources said on Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa.A military source......
ISLAMABAD: Amid political pressure, the government is likely to create a new slab for poor domestic consumers with minimal impact of proposed 46 per cent increase in gas tariff.The Economic......
LAHORE: As the five-day parole granted by the Punjab government to the Sharifs, who had been sent to Adiala jail two months ago in the Avenfield apartments reference, will end on Monday at 4pm,......
WASHINGTON: Two recent US documents — the 2019 budget proposals and the Pentagon’s 2018 report to Congress on China — indicate that differences between the United States and Pakistan go beyond......
ANALYSTS with a populist bent have been toying with the idea that Pakistan can steer clear of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mainly by borrowing dollars from Beijing and Riyadh. These voices......
Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss......
