An Israeli court Sunday convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraudulently using state funds for meals, under a plea bargain which dropped more severe charges.While the ruling......
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran on Sunday for last week's attacks on oil tankers and vowed that the United States will guarantee free passage through the vital Strait of Hormuz.Pompeo......
Fallen Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir was Sunday seen in public for the first time since being ousted, as he was driven in an armed convoy to the prosecutor's office.The former strongman, who ruled......
The military has announced a number of high-level appointments and transfers in its ranks, most notably the appointment of Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed as the new director-general of Inter-Services......
Sledging and booing Australia's Steve Smith and David Warner during the English summer will only push the duo to improve their performance levels, England pace bowler James Anderson said.Smith and......
Severe heat has left dozens dead over a 24-hour period in India's Bihar state, as the country enters the third week of searing temperatures, officials said on Sunday.The deaths occurred in three......
The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked a Jerusalem court on Sunday to approve a plea bargain convicting her of fraudulently using state funds for meals, an AFP reporter......
On the invitation of Maryam Nawaz, a PML-N vice president, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived at Jati Umra on Sunday amid reports of increasing cooperation among opposition parties......
Hours before the highly anticipated World Cup clash between India and Pakistan on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan ? who led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup ? advised the team to "banish......
US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Saturday on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, backing a right-wing British columnist who has been widely accused of Islamophobia and once called migrants......
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused arch-rival Iran of attacks on oil tankers in a vital Gulf shipping channel, adding he “won't hesitate” to tackle any threats to the kingdom, according......
KARACHI: What do Imran Khan, Aamir Sohail, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shahid Afridi and Misbah-ul-Haq have in common? They were all captaining the country when Pakistan lost to India in a World Cup......
MANCHESTER: India captain Virat Kohli swatted aside talks about a duel with Pakistan speedster Mohammad Amir and played down the hype around Sunday’s World Cup blockbuster between the arch-rivals......
MANCHESTER: Pakistan pace spearhead Mohammad Amir says the memory of his late mother will spur him on in the high-voltage World Cup clash against arch-rivals India here on Sunday.The 27-year-old is......
SOUTHAMPTON: Joe Root. England Test captain. England’s record century-maker at World Cups. And now England’s golden arm.One-day skipper Eoin Morgan hailed man-of-the-match Root after England......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah defended on Saturday his decision to burden people of the province with more taxes in the budget for fiscal year 2019-20, saying it was because of......
KARACHI: It was on June 13, 2012 that Mehdi Hasan Khan, arguably the greatest ghazal singer ever and one of the finest playback vocalists of the subcontinent, died. He was laid to rest in the city’s......
KARACHI: Use of poor quality manual kits in blood transfusion process is the leading reason behind spread of infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, apart from donors with......
The eyes of more than a billion television viewers around the globe will turn to Manchester when arch-rivals India and Pakistan meet on Sunday (today) in the most highly-anticipated group match of......
KARACHI: There are too many people on the Clifton and Seaview beaches, and despite a ban on bathing in the water and all cyclone and storm warnings because that’s the best way seen by all for beating......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan ordered the resumption of the Prime Minister’s Programme for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C on Saturday.The directions came during a meeting of the......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 25 members of parliament, led by Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi, son of Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, will participate in the Parliamentary Cricket World Cup in......
LAHORE: A duty judicial magistrate at district courts on Saturday refused to record confessional statement of an approver in a money laundering case against Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly......
LAHORE: Dust storms and scattered rain broke the prolonged heat spell in Lahore and some other cities in Punjab on Saturday, providing relief to the weather stricken people after over a fortnight.It......
LAHORE: Punjab’s budget for the next financial year is a paradigm shift in the provincial development policy, says finance minister Makhdum Hashmi Jawan Bakht.Speaking at the post-budget press......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping celebrated his 66th birthday on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Xi considers a close friend and who gave Xi ice cream as a present, Chinese......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and the UAE on Saturday called for decisive action to protect energy supplies amid a tense US-Iran standoff as two tankers attacked in a vital Gulf shipping channel headed to......
BEIRUT: At least 10 civilians and 35 combatants, mostly pro-regime forces, were killed on Saturday in clashes and air strikes that erupted at dawn in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said.The......
GENEVA: Women across Switzerland walked off the job, burned bras and blocked traffic Friday in a day of demonstrations to demand fairer pay, more equality and an end to sexual harassment and......
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday delayed indefinitely a proposed law that would allow extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after widespread anger over the bill......
DUSHANBE: Iran will continue scaling back compliance with a nuclear deal unless other signatories to the pact show “positive signals”, the Iranian president said on Saturday as tensions with the......
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI: A car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament on Saturday, killing eight people, emergency workers said, hours after militia executed nine civilians from a clan with suspected......
KARACHI: Fearful of an anti-market budget that was thought to slap heavy taxation, the market began the outgoing week with all-round selling as index lost 938 points, the largest single-day decline......
KARACHI: Leaders of five export-oriented industries on Saturday demanded immediate restoration of zero-rated facility under SRO 1125 and withdrawal of 17 per cent sales tax on all exports that was......
ISLAMABAD: Pak Suzuki Motor Company on Saturday unveiled Alto 660cc, the replacement of Mehran.Senior Managers of the company including Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Pak Suzuki......
QUETTA: The Balochistan cabinet will approve the provincial budget for 2019-20 on Monday.Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani will preside over the cabinet meeting.The budget session of the......
ISLAMABAD: The government took several facilitation measures to incentivise use of technology to boost exports from the country.Through the Finance Bill 2019, the government has reduced retention......
GHAZNI: An ancient tower dating back 2,000 years in the historic Afghan city of Ghazni collapsed this week, local officials said, raising concerns about the vulnerability of the country’s cultural......
SHANGLA: A polio case has surfaced for the first time in the last two decades in Shangla district after the virus was detected in an 18-month-old boy, who lives in Dedal Kamach area along the bank of......
ISLAMABAD: A sessions court in Rawalpindi has issued a death warrant for a mentally unwell prisoner for his execution on June 18, according to the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a human rights law......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide a loan of $3.4 billion to Pakistan for budgetary support, said federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Khusro Bakhtiar as well......
IT was an easy ride on Manchester’s wide airport road to Bury on Saturday, but large flashing signs warned motorists of delays on the Old Trafford route on Sunday, when Indian and Pakistani......
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) finally admitted on Saturday to the pendency of the presidential references that will be disposed of in the due course of time, copies of the......
There is no new way of doing this. The situation is as it ever was. The details are so clear they barely qualify as details.On one hand is India, a true Goliath, a juggernaut, the tormentor in chief......
THE government is all set to execute a mentally ill prisoner on Tuesday. Ghulam Abbas, a 36-year-old resident of Rawalpindi, has spent over 13 years on death row. Medical records from the last six......
THIS week, India and Pakistan lost yet another opportunity to break the ice and initiate dialogue when the prime ministers of both countries attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in......
