Pakistan will receive $3.4 billion in budgetary support from the Asian Development Bank (ABD), the de facto finance minister said on Saturday, as the government seeks help to overcome a ballooning......
An accountability court has granted a four-day transitory remand of three suspects arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with an alleged fake accounts and money......
South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl in their must-win World Cup match against Afghanistan in Cardiff on Saturday.The Proteas, missing the injured Dale Steyn, suffered defeats against England,......
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George SantayanaAs painful as it may be, history should never be forgotten for its haunting memories can serve as a guiding light in......
The Ministry of Science and Technology on Saturday issued a response to allegations that federal minister Fawad Chaudhry slapped journalist Sami Ibrahim and said that the "incident" should not be......
Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the spokesperson for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, was granted protective bail by the Islamabad District and Sessions Court on......
Virat Kohli will have history on his side when India take on arch-rivals Pakistan in a World Cup blockbuster on Sunday — a clash that is always more than just a game of cricket.Pakistan toured India......
The first police station in South Waziristan's Wana town has started operations in the area, Director of Public Relations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Shahzada Farooq Kokab told DawnNews TV on......
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and elected to bowl in Saturday's World Cup match against holders Australia.Karunaratne opted to take advantage of cloudy conditions and a moist......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday invited PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for a meeting on June 16 (tomorrow).According to PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, Bilawal has accepted......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday submitted its reply on a petition filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seeking the suspension of his sentence in the Al-Azizia/Hill Metal......
Harbhajan Singh has warned the Indian cricket team to expect a sleepless night ahead of their World Cup showdown with arch rivals Pakistan on Sunday.India legend Harbhajan knows from bitter......
Mexico published the document Friday that Donald Trump earlier flaunted as a secret deal to curb migration, but denied it had capitulated to the US president's demands for a so-called "safe third......
Who will take the giant leap for womankind?More than fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 as a "proving ground" to test the next generation of......
The Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris will host its first mass on Saturday, exactly two months after the devastating blaze that shocked France and the world.For safety reasons, the mass led by Archbishop......
NOW that the hype and hysteria he helped create is fading, recently retired chief justice Saqib Nisar deserves to wear a pointed dunce cap on his head as he, with the most powerful men in Pakistan......
An accountability court in Lahore on Saturday granted a 10-day physical remand of Punjab's former minister for Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Sibtain Khan to the National Accountability Bureau's......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory’s report could not confirm the involvement of four people, including three police officials, in the sexual assault of a woman apparently due to a......
RAWALPINDI: Five more people have been placed on the fourth schedule of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 taking the total number of those on the watch list in the district to 38.The new additions to the list......
LARKANA: In a startling revelation that throws into question credibility of entire process of blood screening for HIV being carried out by government health facilities, six employees of Sindh High......
KARACHI: Of the 27,300 people screened so far in Larkana’s Ratodero taluka, 803 people including 661 children have been tested HIV positive. This outbreak is mainly caused by medical malpractices......
ISLAMABAD: After failing to meet many targets in the outgoing financial year, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Friday approved its budget of Rs27 billion for the year 2019-20.The budget was......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will present over Rs800 billion budget for the next financial year on next Tuesday.Provincial finance minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra told reporters here on......
KARACHI: The provincial budget for the next financial year does not appear to bring any good news for the people of Karachi as the Sindh government allocated a paltry sum of Rs1.714bn for “seven new......
KARACHI: Given the challenge posed by HIV/AIDS in the province, the government has earmarked Rs1 billion for an endowment fund being set up for the welfare of the persons living with HIV/AIDS and......
KARACHI: While presenting Sindh’s education budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 on Friday, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that education was the most important criteria for individual......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday presented PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's sister Faryal Talpur in front of an Islamabad accountability court to seek her physical remand.On......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Friday announced over nine per cent increase in budget for security in the province, fixing it at Rs109.788 billion for fiscal 2019-20 compared to Rs100.483bn......
KARACHI: Amid a noisy protest by the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday presented the Rs1.217 trillion deficit-free budget of the province for financial......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways (PR) faced over 3,700 incidents of engine/locomotive failure in almost four and a half years (January 2015 to May 2019) on all of its routes with reasons including poor......
LAHORE: The Punjab government plans to launch 71 development projects of various sectors under the public-private-partnership mode in the fiscal year 2019-20.According to budget document, the......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated Rs383 billion for education in the financial year 2019-20 with an increase of 2.7 per cent from last year.Out of Rs383bn, Rs336.5bn have been allocated for......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has reduced the health budget for the next fiscal by Rs5 billion compared to the current financial year.Contrary to the official claim, the government allocated Rs279......
LAHORE: The chairman of Prime Minister Task Force on Sports Ehsan Mani has said that there is no need to issue any grant to any national sports federation until they assure good performances at......
LAHORE: Amid sloganeering by the opposition, finance minister Hashim Jawan Bakht on Friday presented the PTI government’s first full-fledged budget in the Punjab Assembly.Unlike the past practice,......
LONDON: When Sri Lanka last played in the ongoing World Cup, the French Open was at the quarterfinals stage, the NBA Finals were 1-1, and Chris Froome was training in Tenerife.When the Sri Lankans......
KARACHI: The inaugural World Cup may have not been notable for Sri Lanka. Then still finding their feet and not yet full member of the ICC, the minnows almost came close to creating a huge upset.......
THE outcome of the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated match between Pakistan and Australia was an unexpected one indeed. Though the Aussies were favourites for the game, Pakistan restricted them......
NOTTINGHAM: New Zealand coach Gary Stead said he saw no advantage to his team’s World Cup league stage match against India being abandoned due to rain on Thursday, despite the Indians looking like......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced the activities calendar of its National Cricket Academy for 2019-2020, which commences from June 17 with the training of the national......
MANCHESTER: Pakistan legend Wasim Akram has urged fans on both the sides of the border to stay calm during his country’s potentially volatile World Cup clash against bitter rivals India at Old......
COLOMBO: Five Sri Lankans wanted in connection with the Easter bombings that killed 258 people were arrested in Saudi Arabia and extradited on Friday, police and Interpol said.“One of the alleged......
CHICAGO: An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman’s womb with a butcher knife died on Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed his mother,......
WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat for South Asia has urged the newly re-elected Modi government to quickly condemn religious violence in India and hold extremists accountable.In her remarks before a......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the surprise departure of his spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, after a combative tenure that saw her all-but kill off traditional White House......
BERLIN: An unexploded US aerial bomb from World War II was found in central Berlin during construction work on Friday, forcing the evacuation of surrounding city blocks, police said.The......
BEIRUT: Regime and Russian air strikes and shelling have killed at least 28 people including seven civilians in embattled northwest Syria, a war monitor said on Friday, despite a ceasefire announced......
LONDON: Two years after a tower block fire in London killed 72 people, safety experts warned that hundreds of apartment buildings around Britain remain at risk of a similar devastating......
KARACHI: The provincial government has projected 32 per cent increase in federal transfers in the next fiscal year over the outgoing year.According to the budget document, the federal transfer for......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has proposed significant changes through the budget for the next fiscal year in its agriculture income tax (AIT) and urban immovable property tax (UIPT) regimes besides......
KARACHI: Pakistan received $20.19 billion remittances during July-May FY19, reflecting an increase of 10.4 per cent compared to the same period of last fiscal.Malaysia emerged as the biggest source......
ISLAMABAD: The government has enhanced flat tax rates on mobile phones in the budget 2019-20 for six different slabs as per the import value in a move to lower tax on cheaper handsets compared to......
THE HAGUE: The UN’s top court on Friday rejected a request by the United Arab Emirates to take special measures against Qatar in a two-year crisis that has added to growing tensions in the Gulf.Oil......
ISLAMABAD: Within days after the federal budget targeting Rs5.55 trillion in tax revenues for next fiscal year, the World Bank on Friday approved a package of $518 million for two projects in support......
KARACHI: The Sindh government allocated Rs284.5 billion for provincial Annual Development Plan (ADP) for next fiscal (2019-20) against Rs343.9bn budget estimates and Rs172.9bn revised estimates for......
LAHORE: A number of Sikh pilgrims staged a protest demonstration at the Attari railway station on Friday against the Indian government after a special train from Pakistan was not allowed to enter its......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday pointed out that his three meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan over the past eight months fully reflected the high level of China-Pakistan......
ONE of the fundamentals of strategy, as taught in military academies around the world, is that a successful commander avoids fighting on multiple fronts.But here we are, facing many political,......
FEDERAL Minister Faisal Vawda’s publicly stated desire to bypass the Constitution and the law to ‘hang 5,000 people’ in order to ‘reform’ Pakistan was not shocking, given his track record of coming......
NOW that the hype and hysteria he helped create is fading, recently retired chief justice Saqib Nisar deserves to wear a pointed dunce cap on his head as he, with the most powerful men in Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: A PML-N senator on Friday raised alarm over the proposed ‘cut’ in defence expenditure at a time when the country was facing internal and external threats.Opening the debate on the proposed......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Friday said that the process for extradition of former finance minister Ishaq Dar, Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz would be......
ISLAMABAD: Former president and co-chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari on Friday demanded that Prime Minsiter Imran Khan’s proposed commission investigate the loans......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Friday forwarded the names of proposed members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from Sindh and Balochistan......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended on Friday a government notification about removal of Mushtaq Ahmed Sukhera from the position of Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) and asked the......
GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland held a strike on Friday to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights, recreating the passion of the last such walkout 28......
KARACHI: The US dollar kept fluctuating in value both in the interbank and open market and at times was traded for Rs158 on Friday, with the greenback registering a 5.7 per cent appreciation in the......
LAHORE/KARACHI: Punjab on Friday unveiled a Rs2.30 trillion budget, raising its current expenditure by a modest three per cent to Rs1.3tn for the next financial year, while Sindh presented a......
ISLAMABAD: Four days after the arrest of former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur was nabbed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) here on Friday in connection with a case......
ISLAMABAD: Mystery surrounds the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) which held a closed-door session on Friday to commence a preliminary hearing of government-sponsored references......
LAHORE: The PTI’s Punjab government on Friday announced its second budget improving the allocation for Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2019-20 to Rs350 billion from Rs238bn in the outgoing fiscal......
BISHKEK: When India prepares itself for talks to resolve all outstanding issues with Pakistan, it will find its neighbour prepared, as Pakistan is neither in haste nor troubled, said Foreign Minister......
FEDERAL Minister Faisal Vawda’s publicly stated desire to bypass the Constitution and the law to ‘hang 5,000 people’ in order to ‘reform’ Pakistan was not shocking, given his track record of coming......
ONE of the fundamentals of strategy, as taught in military academies around the world, is that a successful commander avoids fighting on multiple fronts.But here we are, facing many political,......
