At least one aged woman died while several others were reported to have fallen unconscious in different areas of Karachi's Kemari on Sunday night due to the "emission of lethal gas", officials and......
Pakistan emerged victorious from a close contest against India in the final of the Kabaddi World Cup on Sunday in Lahore's Punjab Stadium.The hosts won 43-41 to become Kabaddi world champions for the......
A small factory in Malaysia’s capital is preparing thousands of ready-to-eat halal meals, from fried rice to chicken biryani, to be shipped off to Japan for 2020’s biggest sporting event.Food firms......
United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres on Sunday emphasised the importance to "de-escalate, both militarily and verbally" while talking about relations between Pakistan and India.Guterres......
Former squash player Jahangir Khan will bring the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 trophy to the National Stadium, Karachi on February 19, according to a statement issued by the Pakistan Cricket......
In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) has warned that the government's new rules to regulate social media activity will make it "extremely difficult"......
Police found the body of an eight-year-old girl on Sunday who, they suspect, was sexually assaulted and murdered, District Police Officer (DPO) Shahid Ahmed said.The body was recovered from some......
Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told global leaders......
Government officials and PTI leaders, including Interior Minister Ejaz Shah and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan, gathered at party stalwart Naeemul......
A week of meetings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is set to start today during which the international watchdog, which monitors global money laundering and terror financing, will discuss......
Another 70 people on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 355, Japanese health minister Katsunobu......
The Marylebone Cricket Club set a 205 run target for the Pakistan Shaheens in the 50-over match at Aitchison College Ground, Lahore on Sunday.Ross Whiteley was the highest scorer for the MCC with 51......
Multiple rockets hit an Iraqi base hosting American troops near the United States embassy early Sunday, the latest in a flurry of attacks against US assets in the country."The coalition confirms......
Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen on Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed to have shot down......
PPP lawmaker Shahnaz Ansari, who was shot dead in Sindh's Naushahro Feroze district a day earlier, was laid to rest on Sunday.Her funeral prayers were offered in the grounds of the high school in......
Throwing punches in the air as he sprinted sideways, there was a time when Abdul Khaliq was a familiar sight on the roads of Orangi Town’s Faqeer Colony. Today, the 55-year-old former international......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties have taken exception to the reported remarks of Prime Minister Imran Khan that the army knows who is corrupt in the country, terming the statement “irresponsible”.The......
The number of new cases from China's coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as the World Health Organisation chief warned it was "impossible" to predict how the outbreak......
LAHORE: Since its advent the HBL Pakistan Super League has brought forward some riveting on-field rivalries and contests between Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi have kept the fans at the edge of......
KARACHI: As an international watchdog takes up Pakistan’s request to remove it from a non-compliant list, both the political and security establishment feel confident about pleading the country’s......
ISLAMABAD: While the country lacks around 90,000 nurses and President Dr Arif Alvi declaring 2020 as the nursing year, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has decided to merge the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has indicted an Islamic State-inspired suspect in a case pertaining to a cracker attack on a Karachi Imambargah in 2014.The accused, Saad Aziz, alias Tin Tin, and his......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday decided to launch a 65-million-gallon-daily water supply scheme by reviving lower KB Feeder channel through Haleji Lake at a cost of Rs6......
ISLAMABAD: As criticism of the government over new social media regulations continues, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) urged the......
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed said on Saturday the government needed to work seriously on cyber laws and enhance capacity of law-enforcement agencies to deal with the cyber crimes.He......
PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday gave another chance to Prime Minister Imran Khan to respond to a defamation suit filed against him by former MPA Fauzia Bibi over an allegation of horse-trading in......
ISLAMABAD: The ‘tug of war’ between the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to take over control of the federal capital at grassroots level has......
LAHORE: Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman will be “nabbed” if he comes to Islamabad again with an intention of staging a sit-in there.He also quoted a......
HARIPUR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan inaugurated the two-day Khanpur Festival during a daylong visit to the district on Saturday.The opening ceremony was attended by a large number......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday discussed with US counterpart Donald Trump ways to end the crisis in Idlib, Syria’s last major rebel bastion, and condemned Damascus’......
WASHINGTON: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has said that testing and production of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) drug could start as soon as late February.In an interview to Fox Business......
MUNICH: US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is not......
OIL-RICH Gulf Arab countries owe their eminence to two things: the dependence of the world on them to meet their ‘rising’ energy needs and the accruing petrodollars. Both are now under threat.These......
NEW DELHI: Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart are among online retailers demanding that India scale back a proposed tax on third-party sellers on their platforms, saying the burden of compliance will hurt......
KARACHI: The stock market was able to snap four-week losing streak to close flat in the outgoing week with KSE 100 index showing a token gain of 100 points and closing at 40,243.The market was driven......
Over the past few years, mobility startups have become the undisputed drivers of the local ecosystem with all imaginable variants manning the space, be it ride-hailing, smart buses, car rentals (by......
KARACHI: While the overall big industry output showed a positive trend in December 2019 as per official figures, manufacturers paint a somewhat different picture saying the figures are......
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Just two days before the start of the nationwide polio campaign, apart from Karachi where it has been preponed by one week, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed five......
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Islamabad on Sunday to attend an international conference on Afghan refugees, Radio Pakistan reported.Upon his arrival at Nur Khan Airbase......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has told the Supreme Court that the appointment of Air Marshal Arshad Malik as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Corporation......
THE five-member Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is finally complete after a painful and protracted process of consultation between the government and the opposition to fill three vacancies......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s consulate general in Jeddah on Saturday said that around 400 Pakistanis had been detained for deportation by the Saudi authorities, but denied that the crackdown against illegal......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties have taken exception to the reported remarks of Prime Minister Imran Khan that the army knows who is corrupt in the country, terming the statement “irresponsible”.The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has expressed the hope that the prolonged stay of Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif in London and the “silence” of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue’s benami (prohibition) zones have stepped up investigations into high-profile cases involving 25 politicians said to have benami assets worth over Rs8 billion......
THE sophisticated and imaginative use of social media can endow any entity, particularly governments, with an immeasurable advantage as it acquires the means to communicate directly with the target......
