A team from the International Monetary Fund concluded its visit to Pakistan Tuesday, the government said, adding that “substantive progress” had been made but talks will continue on a possible......
Police on Tuesday arrested two students who were allegedly involved in supplying drugs at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) campus in Islamabad.A team of Secretariat Police also seized more than 3......
Head coach Mickey Arthur on Tuesday described his team's narrow four-run defeat in the first Test against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi as the “worst of his coaching career”.Pakistan, set a modest 176-run......
Kashmiri leaders on Tuesday blamed the Indian authorities for killing a prominent leader in India-occupied Kashmir, as anti-India protests and clashes followed a gun battle that killed four armed......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday left for Kuala Lumpur on a two-day official visit of Malaysia, Radio Pakistan reported.According to Radio Pakistan, the delegation accompanying him comprises......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday released its detailed order of the November 16 hearing into the 2017 Faizabad protest staged by the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), making some damning observations......
Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday highlighted Pakistan's efforts in the war against terrorism and for regional peace, saying the country "has done much more for peace in......
Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey has been accused of inciting hate against India's highest caste after being photographed holding a poster declaring "smash Brahminical patriarchy"......
An Indian court on Tuesday handed down the first death sentence over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that left nearly 3,000 dead following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi.Relatives of......
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) operations Islamabad Faisal Raja replaced Superintendent of Police (SP) Investigation Gulfam Nasir as head of the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has dismissed Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) $70 million compensation claim against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for allegedly not......
Saudi King Salman stood by the crown prince and heaped praise on the judiciary Monday in his first public remarks since journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder tipped the country into one of its worst......
Technology firms led a sell-off across Asian markets on Tuesday on fresh concerns about demand for Apple's iPhones, while Japanese car giant Nissan and Mitsubishi plunged on news chairman Carlos......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar will leave for the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a nine-day trip to raise funds for the Diamer-Bhasha dam, DawnNewsTV reported.Read: Seismic costsCJP......
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday suspended a notification for the increase in compressed natural gas (CNG) price during a hearing of a petition submitted in the court against the......
The foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned the United States Chargé d'Affaires (CdA) Ambassador Paul Jones to register a strong protest against the "unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegations made......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered the closure of Pepsi's Naubahar Bottling Company while hearing a suo motu case at the Lahore registry against companies that sell bottled water.A report on......
A two-day international Rehmatulil Aalameen Conference commenced on Tuesday at Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad.Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the opening segment of the conference. The......
Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will all have to serve their full bans for ball-tampering, Cricket Australia (CA) ruled on Tuesday after reviewing a submission by the players' union to......
President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicising the military by faulting a war hero for not capturing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sooner.Trump took......
WORDS matter. The message may be important but so is its packaging. And yet Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party are defending indefensible ‘words’. So convinced are they that only the intention......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday imposed a fine of Rs2 million on the secretaries defence and interior, inspector general of Islamabad police and members of a joint investigation team......
SYDNEY: Steve Smith and David Warner could have their one-year bans from international and state cricket reduced or adjusted after a review by the board of Cricket Australia (CA) this week, local......
KARACHI: The US $23,500 DHA Cup International Squash Championship – men’s and women’s – is set to commence at the DA Creek Club Asif Nawaz Squash Complex on Tuesday.The men’s event that carries a......
KARACHI: As the ride-hailing services and the Sindh government come close to resolving issues of route permits, the provincial authorities have prepared a checklist for the companies to address......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed a senior education department official to file till Dec 3 the complete record of fee structure of private schools that had been approved by the......
ABU DHABI: New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson praised his team’s never-say-die approach and described a tension-packed narrow win over Pakistan in the first match on Monday a ‘good advertisement for......
IN a pulsating finish New Zealand snatched a sensational victory from the jaws of defeat to set the tone for this three-match series. Till the end their bowlers having pinned down Pakistan’s rather......
LANDI KOTAL: Trading activities with Afghanistan resumed at the Torkham border on Monday when the protesting clearing agents and transporters ended their five-day-long strike after successful......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president ordered the removal of a police chief investigating alleged crimes by the family and associates of his preferred candidate for prime minister Mahinda Rajapakse,......
MALE: The Maldives’ new government will pull out of a free trade agreement (FTA) with China because it was a mistake for the tiny nation to strike such a pact with the world’s second biggest economy,......
TEHRAN: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Iran for the first time on Monday for talks about the nuclear deal and freeing UK nationals held in Iranian jails.Hunt met his counterpart,......
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that his sons Hussain and Hassan started businesses in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia because the environment in Pakistan for them......
YANGON: The UN has called for calm after several Rohingya Muslims were shot and wounded in a Rakhine state camp, in a raid linked to the failed escape of more than 100 of the stateless minority from......
WASHINGTON: While people in Pakistan are rightly focused on US President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about their country, many Americans are concerned about another tweet which ridiculed a......
An argument in a hospital parking lot escalated into a shooting that killed three people, including a police officer, in the United States city of Chicago on Monday.The violence only ended when......
SANAA: Efforts to end Yemen’s devastating war picked up pace on Monday as the government and rebels edged closer to peace talks and Britain led a push at the UN Security Council for an immediate......
BRUSSELS: European ministers signed off on Britain’s draft divorce deal on Monday as they launched a “painful” final week of negotiations on future cross-Channel ties.Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier......
ISLAMABAD: Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, special assistant to the prime minister on overseas Pakistanis and human resource development, contends that mere allegations are not sufficient to remove someone......
ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government has announced providing $4.6 million grant to Pakistan to support the supply of essential polio vaccine for campaigns during 2018-19.Notes of grant were signed and......
KARACHI: The Counter Terrorism Department has filed a charge-sheet with the administrative judge of antiterrorism courts on Monday against a journalist accusing him of fanning religious......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court full bench adjourned the hearing of a petition seeking treason proceedings against two former prime ministers — Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi — and Cyril Almeida,......
ISLAMABAD: A citizen on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s domain to probe into matters already pending adjudication before the superior......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has said Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari alias Zulfi Bukhari was not cooperating with the investigators......
KABUL: A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the US special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement, the militant group said a day after the diplomat......
GUJRAT: Contrary to the tall claims of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Prime Minister Imran Khan about depoliticising the bureaucracy and police, the party’s Punjab government seemed to be......
KARACHI: A ‘high-profile’ militant linked with the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has been apprehended in Karachi, it emerged on Monday.A security official who wished not to be......
LAHORE: A delegation of senior journalists on Monday conveyed concern of the entire journalist community to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar over his remarks about veteran journalist......
GUJRANWALA: A ruling party MPA and some other office-bearers of the party are opposing the abrupt transfer of Deputy Commissioner Shoaib Tariq Waraich but so far they are unable to get the order......
COROLLA Khan, aka Khairullah, crossed the border from Afghanistan to Pakistan over 30 years ago. He drove a cab for many years and hung his keys up a few years ago.While he has no children of his......
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan has created quite a stir by presenting U-turns as a hallmark of leadership. His political opponents have gone to town ridiculing him. But might there be something more......
ISLAMABAD: The Centre and the provinces on Monday decided to form task forces within their jurisdictions to control rapid population growth.The meeting presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Monday gave another extension of three weeks to accountability court-II of Islamabad to decide two references – Al-Azizia and Flagship Investment against the Sharif......
THE segue from condemning a domestic critic to rounding on Pakistan was in typical Trumpian fashion swift and bewildering.In an interview with Fox News that was broadcast on Sunday, US President......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the counsel for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to provide an itinerary of his client next month, as his return will enable a......
LAHORE: Pakistan will have to ‘insulate’ foreign investors from the jurisdiction of its state institutions, courts and laws to give them a ‘sense of security’ in order to attract fresh direct foreign......
LAHORE: China has formally approached the Pakistani authorities and submitted a proposal for a China-Turkmenistan pipeline that is to cross several Central Asian mountain ranges.“It would be cheaper......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund are facing differences over tough conditionalities on key areas of an IMF bailout programme, including further increase in energy prices, more......
ISLAMABAD: The government has, for the first time, appointed a private sector expert to head the policy board at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).Khalid Mirza, former......
KARACHI: Pakistan has been living beyond its means for several years now as evident from the widening current account and trade deficit, says the Fitch Solutions’ analysis on Pakistan’s economy.The......
KARACHI: Stocks succumbed to selling pressure on first trading day of the week with the KSE-100 index conceding 307.98 points (0.74pc) and close at 41,352.77.The index opened positive and moved......
KARACHI: Pakistan received $1 billion from Saudi Arabia on Monday as part of the $3bn package promised by the kingdom during the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan.State Bank of Pakistan’s Chief......
ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to soon lift a seven-year moratorium on new connections of domestic natural gas for industrial consumers.Secretary Petroleum Division Mian Asad Hayaud Din told a......
WORDS matter. The message may be important but so is its packaging. And yet Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party are defending indefensible ‘words’. So convinced are they that only the intention......
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan has created quite a stir by presenting U-turns as a hallmark of leadership. His political opponents have gone to town ridiculing him. But might there be something more......
THE segue from condemning a domestic critic to rounding on Pakistan was in typical Trumpian fashion swift and bewildering.In an interview with Fox News that was broadcast on Sunday, US President......
