Former PTI parliamentarian Jahangir Khan Tareen on Sunday rejected reports that the prime minister had ordered the details of the £190 million settlement between Malik Riaz's family and the United......
JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, while addressing a rally in Peshawar on Sunday, claimed that the "government's ship is about to sink" as a result of the party's protest movement."The journey that was......
North Korea has carried out a “very important” test at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday, a rocket testing ground that US officials once said Pyongyang had promised......
Thousands of Iraqi protesters streamed into streets and public squares in the capital and restive south on Sunday, saying they were not deterred by deadly violence meant to “scare” them.In Baghdad,......
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators crammed into Hong Kong's streets on Sunday, their chants echoing off high-rises, in a mass show of support for a protest movement that shows no signs of......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani on Sunday announced that the board's chief executive, Wasim Khan, had stepped down from the Cricket Committee as "it was not appropriate for him to......
A three-month-old Malaysian infant has been diagnosed with polio, the first case reported in the country in nearly three decades, a top health official said on Sunday.The baby boy from Tuaran in......
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, commenting on the PML-N huddle in London on Saturday, said it was ironic that the group of leaders meeting......
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was nervous about his narrowing lead in opinion polls ahead of Thursday’s election but pledged to deliver a “transformative” Brexit on January 31 that......
Cricketer Fawad Alam, while speaking at a press conference in Karachi on Sunday, called his comeback to Test cricket later this month his "debut".Alam is set to return to Pakistan's Test line-up......
ONCE again as this paper and its team face a sudden spike in the pressure that they have learned to live with for the past three years, the inevitable question is whether the trigger was, as cited, a......
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday presented to parliament what he called a "budget of resistance" against crippling sanctions imposed by arch-enemy the United States."Next year, similar to......
Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi departed on Sunday for the UN’s top court in The Hague to defend the country against charges of genocide of its Rohingya Muslim......
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan resolution moved in the US Congress urges India to end the restrictions on communications and mass detentions in occupied Kashmir as swiftly as possible and preserve......
Democrats in the United States (US) House of Representatives met on Saturday to prepare for what could be the final week of their months-old impeachment inquiry that has imperiled Donald Trump's......
While top US defense and military officials have reaffirmed America’s continued commitment to its relationship with Saudi Arabia after a Saudi Air Force student’s deadly attack at a Navy base in......
Anthony Joshua would not be drawn on his future plans after regaining his world heavyweight titles from Andy Ruiz on Saturday.The British star won back his WBA, IBF and WBO belts with a one-sided......
LONDON: Days after the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced a settlement agreement resulting from an investigation into funds tied to property tycoon and real estate developer Malik......
At least 34 people died on Sunday in a major fire that broke out in a building in a grains market in central New Delhi, a doctor in a government-run hospital said.Dr Kishore Singh said the victims......
IN the last couple of decades, London has earned a reputation for becoming a haven for money launderers globally. Its high-end property market has attracted ‘hot money’ from diverse and dubious......
PAKISTAN is one of the few democratic countries which have the dubious distinction of having the power to legislate by executive decree. In a classical democracy, legislation is the sole prerogative......
LAHORE: Needless reduction in the number of athletes in Pakistan’s contingent by Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for the ongoing 13th South Asian Games in Nepal has affected Pakistan’s chances of winning......
LONDON: England’s fit-again seamer James Anderson has been included in their 17-man Test squad for the four-match tour of South Africa starting on Dec 26, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)......
NEW DELHI: India’s captain Virat Kohli says his priority is to help India win matches than just play ‘slam-bang cricket’ for the sake of entertaining the crowd in the Twenty20 game.Kohli produced a......
LARKANA: Two polio cases have resurfaced within seven months in Larkana, which had remained a polio-free district for eight years, according to district health officer Syed Amjad Shah.The officer......
HYDERABAD: The additional district and sessions judge-III of Hyderabad on Saturday ordered registration of an FIR against two doctors in the wake of the death of a woman at their private hospital on......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear on Dec 18 the appeal filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif against his conviction in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference.The IHC......
LONDON: The leak of classified UK-US trade documents online, tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign, has all the hallmarks of an attempt to interfere in Britain’s upcoming election, a......
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital and south on Saturday, grieving but defiant after 17 were killed in an attack demonstrators described as "slaughter".The protest......
With the crude glut just around the corner, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies agreed last week to one of the deepest output cuts in the decade.The Opec+ agreed......
RAWALPINDI: A Project Management Unit (PMU) to supervise construction of the Ring Road will be formed within a month so that work at the site would be launched in March.This was stated by......
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the chief ministers to lead the anti-polio vaccination campaigns in their respective provinces to ensure a quality nationwide campaign from Dec 16 for......
PESHAWAR: The federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments have agreed to issue Rs250 billion Sukuk bonds to clear the province’s net hydel profit dues.The agreement came during a meeting between......
ISLAMABAD: After inaugurating the Shah Allah Ditta Community Health Centre (CHC) last month, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) is hopeful that people will stop depending as much on......
ISLAMABAD: There had been a decrease of 10pc in crime against persons and property between Aug 1, 2018, and Sept 30, 2019, in the federal capital compared to the corresponding period in 2017-18.In......
MADRID: The loss of oxygen from the ocean due to climate change might have “dire effects” on sea life, fisheries and coastal communities, a global conservation body said on Saturday.The International......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Saturday severely criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government over the recent increase in power tariff, calling it yet another anti-people act of the......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday delayed indictment of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and others owing to unavailability of one of the suspects in a case registered by the CTD on charges......
KARACHI: The country has fixed a low kinno export target of 300,000 tonnes for the current season amid stiff competition in Russian market.Patron-in-Chief All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters,......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) extended the deadline for retailers to register with tax authorities and install automated point-of-sale (PoS) systems at outlets across the country to......
KARACHI: The rupee in open market rose to its five-month high as demand for the greenback fell owing to the decline in imports whereas the increase in dollar from lending agencies and foreign......
KARACHI: Investors in the Jhimpir Wind Corridor are alarmed as their projects have now suffered an unprecedented shutdown of six consecutive days since the federal government halted all offtake from......
ISLAMABAD: Over 5,500 transgender persons are among over 1.9 million applicants for the Naya Housing Pakistan Programme, shows data released by the National Database and Registration Authority......
QUETTA: The Balochistan coalition government is making earnest efforts by utilising every possible opportunity to encourage maximum foreign and local investment in the province through promoting......
IN a typical classroom at a well-known school, 10-year-olds blankly stare at a teacher who does most of the talking. Her narrative is interspersed with a few questions that the same two eager......
IN the last couple of decades, London has earned a reputation for becoming a haven for money launderers globally. Its high-end property market has attracted ‘hot money’ from diverse and dubious......
