A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the Pak-Iran border, Tehran's news agency IRNA reported on Monday.“The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl......
PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that he sees democratic forces in Pakistan weakening during the tenure of the two-month-old Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government.Speaking to the......
Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur on Monday condemned the controversial remarks made by Punjab Information Minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan, assuring that the......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday directed the concerned authorities to take immediate steps to bring down electricity prices and reduce the additional burden on consumers caused by pilferage and......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday gave his approval to several incentives aimed at attracting more remittances from overseas Pakistanis.Khan was chairing a follow-up meeting regarding facilitating......
Sindh Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah on Monday asked his staff to write to ride-sharing services companies Careem and Uber and direct them to obtain their Karachi route permits from the......
Pakistan Army on Monday formally handed over administrative control of Swat to the civil government after restoring peace and the government’s writ in the militancy-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.In......
Former PM Nawaz Sharif, in his response to a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking treason charges against him, has termed the allegations levelled against him as "unimaginable" and......
Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda on Monday said that the PTI-led government will carry out efforts to complete the Dasu dam project by the year 2022.Addressing a news conference in......
The United States charge d'affaires in Pakistan on Monday called on Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters (GHQ), the head of the military's media wing said in a......
European nations should take a joint stance on whether to halt arms exports to Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Monday.He......
The European Commission on Monday urged the United States and Russia to pursue talks to preserve a nuclear weapons treaty after President Donald Trump said Washington was withdrawing from the......
A man appearing to wear journalist Jamal Khashoggi's clothes left the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul following his killing there, according to a surveillance video, while a member of Crown Prince......
The PML-N on Monday announced that its newly elected MPAs from Punjab will not take oath for their provincial assembly seats and that the party would not attend Punjab Assembly (PA) proceedings until......
The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has clarified that it is not considering drafting a new nikahnama (marriage certificate) that would allow women to divorce their husbands without approaching a......
Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to leave for Saudi Arabia today (Monday) to attend the Future Investment Initiative Conference (FIIC) in Riyadh, Radio Pakistan reported.According to a statement......
A US army general was among those injured in a Taliban attack on top US and Afghan security chiefs inside a highly secure compound last week in Kandahar province, a military spokesman confirmed.US......
Around 500 Japanese business leaders will accompany Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when he visits Beijing this week, amid an ongoing China-United States (US) trade feud that is hurting industries on both......
Retired justice Mian Hamid Farooq, an independent adjudicator, on Monday upheld the 10-year ban on cricketer Nasir Jamshed but set aside additional bars placed on him.In August, an anti-corruption......
An accountability court on Monday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 14-day judicial remand of Punjab University's former vice chancellor, Dr Mujahid Kamran, and others in a case......
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has called the son of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by officials that allegedly included a member......
October is recognised worldwide as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.Nearly one in eight women in Pakistan is diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. Most people have at least one loved one......
A Joint Investigation Team (JIT) tasked with probing fake bank accounts submitted a progress report in the Supreme Court on Monday which revealed that transactions of Rs54 billion were made through......
The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Monday opened its doors to citizens applying for a house under the first phase of the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme (NPHP) initiated by......
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Monday strongly condemned the recent killing of Kashmiris at the hands of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir.In a tweet, PM Khan decried the "new cycle of killings of......
A Russian Army contingent has arrived in Pakistan to participate in a Pak-Russia Joint Training Exercise named Druzhba-III, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif......
International public policy and gender reforms specialist Salman Sufi received the prestigious Mother Teresa Award in Mumbai on Sunday for his work on empowerment of women in Pakistan over the past......
Australia and England on Monday rejected fresh allegations about corruption in cricket by television news channel Al Jazeera, which claimed there had been 26 spot-fixing incidents in 15 international......
A rickshaw driver who had attempted to self-immolate in protest over the alleged extortion by traffic police succumbed to his injuries on Monday, police said.Rickshaw driver Khalid had sprinkled oil......
MUSCAT: India made a stupendous comeback after being a goal down as they beat Pakistan 3-1 in the fifth Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament to stretch their unbeaten streak against arch-rivals......
KARACHI: Lahore Blues completed the Super Eight line-up from Pool ‘B’ in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship by grabbing the last available spot with a clinical 172-run rout of......
DHAKA: Imrul Kayes’ 144-run knock proved to be the difference as Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by 28 runs in the first One-day International at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday.Kayes’......
THE second Test and in fact the short series will best be remembered for Mohammad Abbas breaking the fallacy of UAE pitches; that they assist spinners and seamers are there for the appetizers.Or did......
MOTEGI: Marc Marquez wrapped up his third straight MotoGP championship with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday after title rival Andrea Dovizioso fell on the penultimate lap while trying to......
SINGAPORE: Big-serving Karolina Pliskova used her most potent weapon to damaging effect as she overwhelmed defending champion Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-4 in their opening round robin match of the WTA......
GUWAHATI: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma both hit centuries and combined in a record-breaking stand of 246 to help India chase down a difficult target against West Indies for a convincing eight-wicket......
CIUDAD HIDALGO (Mexico): Thousands of Honduran migrants whose journey toward the United States has triggered a series of tirades from Donald Trump resumed their long march on Sunday after crossing a......
BEIRUT: The US-led coalition said on Sunday it had killed militants in eastern Syria by striking a mosque that the militant Islamic State group used as a base, after reports of dozens of civilian......
LONDON: Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday that any extension to a proposed transition period after Britain leaves the European Union must be strictly time-limited or have a “route......
KARACHI: With a conviction rate of 13.20 per cent, the antiterrorism courts (ATCs) in Sindh disposed of 2,386 cases in the first eight months of the current calendar year, while 3,717 cases are still......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Dr Farooq Sattar has said that big dams are required to be built and the chief justice of Pakistan is playing an important role in this......
CHARSADDA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that parliamentary elections in Afghanistan did not carry any legitimacy in the presence of foreign forces.Talking to......
CHITRAL: The residents of Rumbur valley of Chitral are celebrating three-day festivities at the death of a Kalash elder, dancing and singing in praise of the deceased who died on Saturday after......
IMAGINE a scenario where a group of, say, Christian men abduct and rape a number of young Muslim girls over years.Actually, the response of the majority is not hard to predict: there would be blood......
PESHAWAR: The provincial government seems to have focused its gaze on taking over assets of the erstwhile Fata after its merger with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rather than ameliorating the future of its......
SAUDI Arabia offered an explanation on Saturday for what had happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, 17 days after he went missing at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.But even though......
ISLAMABAD: A woman, who tried to forcefully enter Diplomatic Enclave without number plates on her car on Wednesday, was sent to jail on a judicial remand on Sunday, but landed in Polyclinic minutes......
IN the 2018 Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, Pakistan ranks 150th out of 189 countries. Since the previous iteration of the report was published in 2016, the country has actually slipped down......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is going to unfurl a gigantic reform programme in basic sectors such as health, education, labour and water in the next 20 days, introducing new laws and amending the......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar says the dream of a new province in south Punjab will come true during the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government to mitigate the sufferings of......
LAHORE: As many as 11.8 million children have so far been inoculated during the first six days of the ongoing anti-measles campaign.Health Services Director General Dr Munir Ahmad said on Sunday that......
ONCE again, the beleaguered citizens of Thar are in the headlines.On Friday, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was briefed about the abysmal healthcare situation in the region, with the information......
AMMAN: Jordan said on Sunday it would not extend the 25-year deal that allows Israel to use two tracts of territory along its border just as Israel said it was still planning to negotiate an......
QUETTA: National Party President Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo has said his party will not accept any deduction in Balochistan’s constitutional share in the next National Finance Commission (NFC)......
ISLAMABAD: The executive director of Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr Arshad Ali, resigned amid allegations he was involved in plagiarism.Executive Director is a powerful position in the HEC......
ISLAMABAD: The government has called a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Monday (today) to sanction the inevitable increase in electricity tariff — by around 20......
FEW governments have tried to implement their election manifestos as seriously as Prime Minister Imran Khan appears to be doing, having bound himself to a 100-day ambitious reforms agenda.With the......
SRINAGAR: Violence across India-held Kashmir (IHK) left at least 14 people dead on Sunday, police and military officials said.The victims included six who were killed when an explosion occurred among......
ECONOMIC experts consider fertiliser consumption a direct indicator of growth in the agriculture sector. Pakistan has a flourishing fertiliser industry, which has been growing at approximately 8.5......
The state of affairs at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is akin to the resounding warning signals — “pull-up, pull-up” — from the enhanced ground proximity warning system that most modern......
KARACHI/PESHAWAR: In another setback to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf after the last week by-polls, the ruling party in Sunday’s by-polls lost a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat in Peshawar though......
THE Punjab agriculture budget for the remaining eight months of the current fiscal is believed by some to have created unnecessary confusion for the sector.The budgetary document speaks of two block......
LAUNCHING investigations against investors is a double-edged sword. It ruins the country’s image, shatters investor confidence and scares away fresh investment. Yet this can be politically rewarding......
QUETTA: Pakistan on Sunday reopened the friendship gate at the Afghan border in Chaman, resuming trade activities, Nato supplies and the transit trade between the two countries.Pakistan had closed......
Mosquito bites swell up and itch. So do inflation bites. But when the political environment is charged, some describe this swelling and itching with exaggeration while others pretend as if there is......
BUT for the last three trading days this past week, shares at the Pakistan stock market have been sinking by the day. In three weeks, the KSE-100 Index has bled by 3,500 points, losing nine per cent......
THE last three months of a calendar year are usually the busiest for the gold market in India, as demand soars with consumers buying huge quantities of the yellow metal for the festive season.This......
PUNJAB’S pension payments are growing rapidly, eating into the provincial financial resources available for development and posing a major challenge for the fledgling PTI government.The expected......
MOSCOW: Russia on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump that his plan to ditch a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty with Moscow was a dangerous step.Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov......
ISLAMABAD: In the next two weeks Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit three friendly countries where he is likely to seek monetary assistance, according to sources.Mr Khan would leave on an official......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the legal brains of his party to contest the National Accountability Bureau’s plea for further extension of Shahbaz Sharif’s physical remand......
ISLAMABAD: Terming the present government “incompetent”, former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has called upon all political parties to unite on one platform......
RECENTLY, Sindh’s Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah made a big fanfare of enrolling his eight-year-old daughter in a government school in Hyderabad. In a room full of cameramen, he spoke about the......
IN the 2018 Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, Pakistan ranks 150th out of 189 countries. Since the previous iteration of the report was published in 2016, the country has actually slipped down......
The stagnant property market does not look likely to recover anytime soon. Realtors and builders do not expect a housing rate slide in the middle-low income areas of urban centres, but they do......
