Karachi police on Wednesday registered a case against a man over charges of attempting suicide and others, after he climbed an electric pole in Korangi area reportedly to protest against police’s......
The United State's most exclusive fraternity, the presidents club, assembled on Wednesday to mourn George H W Bush, putting on public display its uneasy relationship with the current occupant of the......
In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers reported Wednesday.The breakthrough operation, performed in September 2016 in......
Cash-strapped Pakistan should pursue clean energy instead of relying on coal, nuclear and hydroelectric power, according to a report released on Wednesday urging the country's policymakers to rethink......
A Pakistani man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of stabbing to death a teacher outside a university in the Paris suburbs, a police source said.The 66-year-old teacher was stabbed repeatedly in......
Senator Talha Mehmood, the chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, on Wednesday alleged that the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) had issued CNICs to Afghan......
More than 220 Indian pilgrims are expected to visit Sukkur to attend religious celebrations, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi announced on Wednesday.According to a statement by the high......
While a number of political stakeholders have ridiculed his statement, there is a lot of research on how and why this intervention can work. The people who are mocking the initiative are actually far......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday reiterated Pakistan's "abiding interest" in achieving lasting peace and reconciliation in war-torn Afghanistan through a political settlement.The premier gave......
Around 90 people suspected of belonging to the notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia were rounded up on Wednesday in raids across several European and Latin American countries, Italian police said.The suspects......
A day-long symposium on an alarming population growth in Pakistan is being held in Islamabad.Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will address the symposium to......
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded that arrest warrants be issued against two Saudi nationals close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish source......
Afghan Taliban targeted a police checkpoint in the western Herat province, setting off a battle in which a policeman and three civilians were killed, according to a provincial official in......
Azhar Ali ended his century drought to put Pakistan close behind New Zealand's first-innings total in the third and final Test in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.The 33-year-old was unbeaten on 111 for his......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), after staging a brief rally in the previous session, experienced another slump on Wednesday, with its benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 888 points in intraday trading......
Asian markets fell Wednesday following a rout on Wall Street, as investors were bombarded by a “perfect storm” of problems that erased the positivity seen at the start of the week.The glum mood......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday, during the hearing of a petition seeking the disqualification of prime minister's aide Syed Zulfikar Ali Bukhari — aka Zulfi Bukhari — said......
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, in a telephonic conversation on Wednesday, felicitated Prime Minister Imran Khan on assuming the top office and acknowledged his......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday while hearing a case on the transfer of the Islamabad police chief suggested that minister Azam Swati could be tried under Article......
One team has one of its star players sidelined with an ankle injury, and he'll miss the first test beginning Thursday at the Adelaide Oval. The other has had upsetting publicity it could never have......
A shallow and powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off New Caledonia on Wednesday prompting a tsunami alert and evacuations on the Pacific island, authorities said.The Pacific Tsunami Warning......
RAWALPINDI: One month on, the police have not made any progress in the investigation into the murder of Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq.However, an interim charge sheet of......
SWABI: Three leaders of the Pakhtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) on Tuesday appeared in a local court at the Swabi Judicial Complex for confirmation of their bail before arrest.The three men — Ali Wazir......
Orlando (Florida, US): Nasa’s deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to......
LONDON: Britain’s government suffered a stinging rebuke from MPs ahead of Tuesday’s momentous Brexit debate, exposing Prime Minister Theresa May’s lack of support in parliament.The House of......
NAROWAL: Heavy machinery reached Kartarpur area of the district on Tuesday to construct a corridor connecting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur to Dera Baba Nanak in India’s Gurdaspur district.The......
KASUR: The anti-corruption establishment on Tuesday initiated an inquiry into a land ‘scam’ and issued summons for Dec 10 to Bahria Town chairman Malik Riaz in a forgery case of land measuring 641......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided not to regularise Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Banigala house till the city’s master plan is revised.The prime minister’s house is......
LAHORE: Criticising Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement that the armed forces support the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) manifesto, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has demanded that the......
KARACHI: After two weeks of hustle and bustle at the DA Creek Club, the scene has been shifted to the PN Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan Squash Complex where the US$18,000 13th CNS International Squash......
BHUBANESWAR: Pakistan and Malaysia face each other in a must-win Pool ‘D’ clash on Wednesday with both sides having opened their Hockey World Cup campaigns with losses and both fully aware that......
PARIS: Luka Modric saw off competition from a host of French World Cup stars as the Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder won the 2018 Ballon d’Or on Monday, breaking Cristiano Ronaldo’s and Lionel......
WAMENA: An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were shot dead by separatist rebels in restive Papua province, officials said on......
NEW DELHI: India’s environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi’s government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in the world’s most polluted major city, officials......
LAHORE: Deputy Inspector General of police’s operations wing Muhammad Waqas Nazir has linked the transfers and postings of the city station house officers (SHOs) with crime prevention, setting ‘new......
LAHORE: A customised mobile application to promote healthy trends among schoolchildren will be introduced in 12 selected educational institutions during the current week.This was stated by Minister......
MUZAFFARGARH: Thousands of people have become jobless after the closure of brick kilns in Muzaffargarh because of smog and now due to a delay in start of the crushing season.At a press conference on......
NOWSHERA: After a strong protest by the journalists’ community against the targeted killing of Nowshera-based reporter of a private channel, Nurul Hassan, in Peshawar on Monday, the deceased was laid......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement about early elections will trigger more economic crisis in the country.In a statement......
WASHINGTON: The remains of George H.W. Bush lay in state on Tuesday at the US Capitol amid a groundswell of tributes honouring the 41st US president.Since Monday evening Americans have been quietly......
GWADAR: Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal said on Tuesday that the federal government would provide 20,000 jobs in different sectors to youths of Balochistan.Speaking at a gartering in......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Asad Umar has informed the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) that the government is cognisant of print media’s problems.In the short term, he said, it was the......
KARACHI: The provincial education department on Tuesday informed the Sindh High Court that there would be 11,850 primary schools out of 38,132 schools in Sindh to be declared “not viable” after the......
KARACHI: It is quiet now around the stone building of the historic Empress Market. A passenger with a big straw sack leaning by his feet watches as the rickshaw he is inside passes by. It seems like......
A five-member Supreme Court bench on Wednesday will hold a hearing to decide if a new joint investigation team (JIT) can be formed to probe the Model Town case which is still pending a formal......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was on Tuesday informed that mobile phone snatching had increased during the current year as so far 14,051 cell phones were snatched compared to 12,187 in......
KARACHI: Amid criticism from the business community coupled with serious concerns raised lately by political parties — both in government and opposition in the Sindh Assembly — the federal government......
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan on Tuesday assured a parliamentary committee that the government would soon move a constitutional amendment to ensure......
LAHORE: Latest agriculture technology is need of the hour to enhance per acre yield in the country and we hope the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will allow for this knowledge and tech......
KARACHI: Total cement despatches grew by four per cent to 19.253 million tonnes in the first five months of this fiscal year, from 18.513m tonnes in corresponding period last year.Domestic despatches......
SHANGHAI: As White House officials fanned out to talk up what US President Donald Trump called “an incredible deal” with China to hit pause in their trade war, Beijing has said little on a pact that......
KARACHI: If there is to be incremental progress between India and Pakistan that have fought four wars, Prime Minister Imran Khan is presently “India’s best bet”, according to a Washington Post......
ISLAMABAD: After touching record four-year high last month at 6.78 per cent, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation eased to 6.5pc in November, according to data released by the Pakistan......
VIENNA: Opec and its allies are working towards a deal this week to reduce oil output by at least 1.3 million barrels per day, four sources said, adding that Russia’s resistance to a major cut was so......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to extend full support to the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned efforts for peace in Afghanistan.This consensus was reached during the 10th round of Pak-Iran......
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to break a deadlock, the government allowed sugar millers another 100,000 tonnes of export and relaxed the limit of 1m tonnes it had set previously. On top of that, the government......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s latest remarks that the government can run the legislative business through presidential ordinances have stirred another controversy, with the opposition......
KARACHI: After a massive rout of 1,335 points a day ago, the KSE-100 index recovered 442.27 points (1.13 per cent) on Tuesday and closed slightly short of the intraday high at 39,602.87.In early......
ISLAMABAD: After continued lobbying by civil society, Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Aamer Mehmood Kiani announced on Tuesday that soon a ‘sin tax’ will be imposed on cigarettes and......
Two key US Republican senators said Tuesday after a briefing by the CIA's director they have “zero” doubt Saudi Arabia's crown prince directed the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.The......
