The United States on Friday announced fresh sanctions against eight top Iranian officials it accused of working to destabilise the region, as well as against more than a dozen leading producers of......
In the not-too-distant future you could ride one, two or three wheels... or maybe none at all. Tech-inspired solutions for mobility — on land, air and water — featured prominently at the 2020......
A student at an elementary school in the city of Torreon, in northern Mexico, shot and killed a teacher on Friday, then killed himself, police said.Authorities are still investigating but believe the......
Australia urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as authorities said the next few hours could be "very, very challenging" even as......
A blast inside a mosque in Quetta's Satellite Town area during Friday evening prayers claimed 15 lives and left 19 people injured, Balochistan Home Minister Zia Langove confirmed.According to Quetta......
A Moroccan activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for "insulting the national flag and the symbol of the state" in a Facebook post, his lawyer said on Friday.The sentence was handed down......
Three children were killed when the wall of a primary school building fell on them in village Bhooro Sand, near Nagarparkar town in Sindh, on Friday.The victims, identified as six-year-old Ambreen,......
Star West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has said that Pakistan is one of the safest places in the world at the moment.In a video shared on Facebook on Friday, a reporter in Bangladesh asked Gayle if......
Europe will look on Friday for ways to guide the United States and Iran away from open conflict, knowing that a miscalculation from either side could leave the bloc facing a war and a serious nuclear......
Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Azakhel dry port in Nowshera district on Friday. The dry port has been completed at a cost of Rs510 million and is expected to boost trade and economic......
The first lunar eclipse of the year 2020 will be witnessed in Pakistan on Friday night and end in the early hours of Saturday.According to a private news channel, it will be penumbra lunar eclipse......
Following the escalation in tensions between the United States and Iran, Pakistan and Russia have agreed to launch joint efforts to restore peace in the region, Radio Pakistan reported on Friday.In a......
Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight Iran-backed Iraqi militiamen, Syrian activists and two Iraqi officials said, an attack that comes amid......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday posed questions regarding the legality of the treason case filed against former dictator Pervez Musharraf and the formation of the special court that conducted......
Cricket star Shane Warne's “baggy green” cap sold at an auction for more than Aus$1 million, approximately $700,000 on Friday, with all funds going to help victims of bushfires raging in......
The National Assembly on Friday approved the Zainab Alert, Recovery and Response Bill, 2019, exactly two years after the body of nine-year-old Zainab Ansari, a rape-murder victim, was found in Kasur......
Pakistan has asked the United Nations Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to "act decisively" to prevent a "disastrous war" between Pakistan and India.In a video shared by APP......
It was holiday time at Hong Kong’s sprawling Harbour City shopping mall, and shoppers posed for selfies next to giant presents wrapped in golden foil, while toddlers jumped into a ball pit filled......
The villagers of Hassanabad live in constant fear.Above them the vast Shisper glacier dominates the landscape: A river of jagged black ice moving towards them at as much as four metres per......
Iran on Friday termed reports that it had shot down a Ukrainian commercial airliner in Tehran as “lies” concocted by the United States as part of the latter’s “psychological operations” against......
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the extended three-year sentence against former additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar — for torturing a minor......
India's Supreme Court on Friday, while hearing petitions challenging the restrictions on movement and communication imposed in occupied Kashmir since August 5, said that freedom of internet is a......
The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after the US killing of a top Iranian......
There is no reason to doubt reports from the Western world suggesting that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late on Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board,......
PESHAWAR: Railways minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Thursday said Prime Minister Imran Khan would inaugurate the Azakhel dry port in Nowshera district today (Friday).“The Rs510 million Azakhel dry......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was on Thursday informed that Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) is charging higher than normal commercial tariff from community-based tubewells in the......
LAHORE: Jagjeet Kaur of Nankana Sahib told the Lahore High Court on Thursday that she married Muhammad Hassaan of her own free will, after converting to Islam, and did not want to go back to her......
LAHORE: Additional Attorney General (AAG) Ishtiaq A. Khan on Thursday told a Lahore High Court full bench that formation of the special trial court that convicted former president retired Gen Pervez......
LAHORE: Upset over frequent outbreak of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in all provinces and alarming surge in Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WP1) cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) has......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday partially recorded statements of eight accused persons, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Rauf Siddiqui, in the Baldia factory fire case.More than......
KARACHI: There is an urgent need for educating people on the means of transmission and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and address the social stigma and fear attached to HIV/AIDS. A......
BEIJING: China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade......
LONDON: Britain’s parliament finally approved Brexit on Thursday, allowing it to become the first country to leave the European Union by the end of this month, ending years of arguments that toppled......
SYDNEY: Bushfires flared in southern Australia on Thursday as a heatwave expected to bring renewed misery set in, and officials warned some areas are “just at the beginning” of the devastating......
LONDON: Ben Stokes made an emphatic case for the unique drama of five-day Test cricket this week — inspiring England to a series-levelling win against South Africa in the final overs of a dramatic......
LAHORE: Pakistan captain Rohail Nazir has expressed the hope he will lead from the front to win the forthcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup in South Africa.Rohail, who has performed exceptionally well in......
SYDNEY: Australia have the goods to give Virat Kohli’s men a run for their money, skipper Aaron Finch said Thursday as he departed for their three-match One-day International (ODI) series.The two......
WASHINGTON: The World Bank says the global economy should see a modest rebound in growth this year.But the 189-nation lending institution is cautioning that a number risks could upend its forecast,......
BEIJING: China said on Thursday that Vice Premier Liu He will travel to Washington next week to sign the “phase one” deal with the United States that has lowered trade tensions between the world’s......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) top tax officials on Thursday met with traders’ representatives to review progress on the agreement towards implementing CNIC condition on sale and purchase......
ISLAMABAD: Amid debate that who will be the main beneficiary of recently promulgated National Accountability (second amendment) Ordinance, 2019, politicians and bureaucrats facing corruption......
ISLAMABAD: The newly elected chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Rana Tanvir Hussain, has cleared all the 14 audit objections raised by the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered the overhauling of the country’s public diplomacy and information policy for effective projection of national narrative abroad by improving the skill......
ISLAMABAD: Two days after showing complete harmony in approving services chiefs’ tenure bills in the National Assembly, the treasury and opposition members on Thursday resumed their routine business......
DUBAI: Iran spurned the US president’s call for a new nuclear pact and its commanders threatened more attacks, after both sides backed off from intensified conflict following the US killing of......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has asked a US federal court to pause an Australian copper company’s bid to enforce a $6 billion arbitral award while it looks to have the award nixed, reports Law360, a New......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Jan 14 over variations in his statement of assets and......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday insisted that the Pakistan government’s efforts for de-escalation in the Persian Gulf remain relevant despite US moves to contain the fallout of the latest......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold its ruling on an appeal challenging the return of a petition by the court’s secretariat that pertains to a reference on misconduct against former......
THE Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) is behind on its collection targets in first quarter. This, despite the fact that tax targets have also been revised downwards. Given our commitments to the IMF,......
THE unspeakable happened on Wednesday. A communication line that had initially promised so much to so many people was restored. A Twitter handle came back to life after a long, eerie silence.In the......
IT will soon overtake China as the most populated country on the planet. It is home to arguably the world’s most diverse and oldest human civilisation. The so-called ‘crown jewel’ of the British......
IT will soon overtake China as the most populated country on the planet. It is home to arguably the world’s most diverse and oldest human civilisation. The so-called ‘crown jewel’ of the British......
