A man reportedly shot and killed his seven-year-old niece in Peshawar's Tehkal area after opening fire in anger over the amount of noise the children were making, it emerged on Sunday.According to......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will approach an accountability court to declare former prime minister Nawaz Sharif a proclaimed offender in a land case involving Jang Group’s......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to comply with a nationwide lockdown and social distancing measures on Sunday, a day after some of the world’s toughest restrictions were eased......
WASHINGTON: China sought to block a European Union report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to four sources and diplomatic......
An Indian woman was allegedly gang-raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police......
WELL-KNOWN cleric Maulana Tariq Jameel has made a disturbing assertion that Covid-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the ‘wrongdoing of women’. During a televised prayer, the maulana......
Spanish children were allowed outside on Sunday for the first time in six weeks as countries eased lockdown measures and reopen economies gutted by the coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly......
Five children, including two brothers, drowned in the pond of an under-construction building in Karachi's Surjani Town area on Sunday.Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Karachi West Fida Hussain......
The emergency department of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) — one of Karachi's biggest public hospitals — was sealed on Sunday after a doctor tested positive for the novel coronavirus.A senior......
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N chief Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday blaster Prime Minister Imran Khan for the delay in the report to be submitted by the sugar inquiry......
Two Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred and five were injured during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) late last night in Khaisura and Dossali areas of North Waziristan, according to a statement......
LANDI KOTAL: A total of 462 Pakistanis stranded in Afghanistan came back via the Torkham border crossing on Saturday, taking the total number of returnees to 1,632 so far.Shamsul Islam, deputy......
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, after having recovered from a case of coronavirus that sent him to intensive care for three nights in early April.This was......
Yemen's southern separatists early on Sunday declared self-rule of the country's south as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a long and separate conflict with the Houthis who......
PARIS: French football could resume its season in June with two cup finals, French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet proposed on Friday.Le Graet said that the French Cup final between Paris......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Chief Executive Wasim Khan, while talking to DawnNews on Friday, said the PCB can handle financial challenges for the next couple of years, but if need be, he will......
AMSTERDAM: The Eredivisie is the first top-tier European league to end its season prematurely because of the coronavirus crisis, but its decision sparked instant complaints from clubs who felt they......
LAKKI MARWAT: The district chapter of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has asked the government to announce a special relief package for the lockdown-affected small trades.Talking to journalists here on......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan visited Hayatabad Medical Complex to condole the death of Dr Mohammad Javed who passed away on Saturday morning after being affected by Covid-19 in the line of......
ISLAMABAD: A survey has shown that more than 80pc of mosques in Punjab and the federal capital did not implement the agreement reached between the governmentand Ulema regarding the first Taraweeh......
RAWALPINDI: Commissioner retired Capt Mohammad Mehmood on Saturday directed health authorities to expedite efforts to eliminate dengue larvae after a dengue patient was admitted to Holy Family......
WHAT could salvage crude markets from the abyss? Heightening of tensions in the oil-rich Middle East?The American oil industry, President Donald Trump’s major support base is in doldrums, and, in an......
ISLAMABAD: While proposing to allow the commercial import of cars in the budget 2020-21, the used car importers are seeking clearance of more than 7,000 cars held up at Karachi port imported in......
NEW DELHI: India plans to fast track the review of some investment proposals from neigbouring countries such as China following concerns new screening rules could hit plans of companies and......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has asked the government to either go for a “complete and strong lockdown” or lift it as “smart lockdown” is serving no purpose in the fight against......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani said on Friday that the provincial government was utilising all its resources to make functional all state-run hospitals in the......
WELL-KNOWN cleric Maulana Tariq Jameel has made a disturbing assertion that Covid-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the ‘wrongdoing of women’. During a televised prayer, the maulana......
SINCE the Covid-19 pandemic broke, the reactions of world leaders have ranged from the rarely sublime to the abundantly ludicrous, and scientists and medical professionals who have tried to instil......
WASHINGTON: China sought to block a European Union report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to four sources and diplomatic......
BANGKOK: Sri Lanka has reimposed a countrywide 24-hour curfew after a surge in the number of coronavirus cases, most of them navy sailors who were searching for those evading quarantine.The 46 new......
ISLAMABAD: As the most crucial ordinance curtailing powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) regarding action against businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians promulgated by the government......
LAHORE: Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid claims that Shahbaz Sharif and his niece (Maryam) don’t see eye to eye on the issue of leading the party. He further says that Mr Sharif is in great trouble......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet will consider on Tuesday a request of the Sugar Forensic Commission (SFC) for granting it three more weeks to compile its report on last year’s food crisis after the......
• ENT surgeon becomes latest victim as Covid-19 cases cross 12,500 mark• Pakistan not manufacturing vaccine, says PM’s aide• Doctors reiterate demand for strict lockdownISLAMABAD: Just a week after......
ISLAMABAD: As the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic does not appear to be subsiding anytime soon, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — the lawyers’ premier regulatory body — has expressed support for......
ISLAMABAD: As the lockdown enters its second month, promoting people to go for online shopping, video conferencing and even business deals, criminals are also using cyberspace to cheat people.The......
ISLAMABAD: Members of a think tank constituted by the prime minister proposed on Saturday downward revision in the policy rate, passing on the benefit of reduced oil prices in the global market to......
WASHINGTON: The United States needs to focus on regional stability, especially in the context of deepening hostility between India and Pakistan, while formulating its response to the China-Pakistan......
WHEN I first came across John Donne’s poetry as a teenager, I never realised that there would come a time in my life when his words would be a reminder of what we have ignored at a human level: that......
