The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to register Pakistan's "strong protest" over the latest ceasefire violations by Indian border forces along the Line of Control......
All Pakistani pilots working for Vietnamese airlines have valid and legitimate licences and none have been involved in a flight incident or safety threat, the government said on Saturday.Vietnam last......
After being "dropped" from a key rail project in southeastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan, India is also set to lose an ambitious gas field project in the country that had been in the......
A government-appointed commission promoting the rights of India’s religious minorities said police failed to protect Muslims campaigning against a new citizenship law during violent riots in Delhi......
LAHORE: A sub-inspector (SI) has completed his PhD in Chemistry from the Government College University while simultaneously fulfilling his official responsibilities.Dr Muhammad Irfan, who is posted......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar says the conspiracies (against his government) will again be foiled and the journey of development will continue as the PTI government in Punjab is......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday expressed serious dismay over the sale of lifesaving injection Actemra in the black market and increase in prices of Covid-19-related medicines.Without naming......
LAHORE: Ministers among treasury members protested in the Punjab Assembly against calling the prime minister a beggar and warned that the opponents would be paid back in the same coin, while the......
LAHORE: The handing over of the Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project’s entire electrical, mechanical and civil work to the Punjab Mass Transit Authority (PMTA) from the Chinese joint venture has......
LAHORE: The anti-polio campaign in Punjab will resume on July 20 after a four-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.Initially, polio vaccination activities will be carried out in 44 union......
FOLLOW the smell today in Islamabad and it will take you straight to the Aviation Division.And there you will find the problem. Not just any problem — no ladies and gentlemen — but the problem.......
BE prepared, Pakistan! Imran Khan’s government is poised to inflict damage upon this country’s education system in a manner never seen before. Its so-called Single National Curriculum (SNC) hides......
BAJAUR: A monsoon tree plantation campaign was launched in several districts on Friday.Deputy commissioner Mohammad Fayyaz launched the ‘Plant for Pakistan’ campaign in Bajaur tribal district during......
PESHAWAR: A single-member judicial commission probing the stripping and torturing of an Afghan citizen in custody on Friday recorded the statements of two police constables.Justice Lal Jan Khattak......
PESHAWAR: Ignoring the outcry of the opposition, the treasury in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday passed a bill to postpone local body elections in the province until Aug 2021 in light of......
MURREE: Commissioner Rawalpindi Mohammad Mahmood visited Murree to hold a meeting with traders’ representatives, hotel associations and other stakeholders regarding the demand of traders to lift the......
ISLAMABAD: An eight-member committee of experts on Friday recommended sending Kavaan the elephant to the 25,000-acre wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia.Kavaan has been the main attraction at Marghazar......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that for the first time 14,027 patients of coronavirus recovered overnight, while 30 more patients died.In a statement issued here from CM......
KARACHI: A number of stray dogs, which had been vaccinated and tagged under the Rabies Free Pakistan project, were recently found poisoned in a ground in Clifton’s Block 7, officials associated with......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced Egypt and the United Arab Emirates on Friday for supporting forces based in eastern Libya, after Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Libyan......
BEIJING: China has moved a rocket into position to launch a rover to Mars in one of three upcoming missions to the red planet, one from the US and another by the United Arab Emirates.The Long March-5......
LOS ANGELES: Serena Williams will make her return to the WTA tour at a new hardcourt tournament in Kentucky in August, organisers said on Thursday.The Top Seed Open said Serena, the 23-time Grand......
MANCHESTER: All-rounder Ben Stokes piled on the agony for the West Indies with a century in the second Test at Old Trafford on Friday after Dom Sibley’s painstaking hundred finally came to an......
KARACHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) soared by 45 per cent month-on-month to $174.8 million in June, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Friday.The increase in FDI for the entire fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday reversed its two-month old decision of posting some taxmen on important positions at the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as it faces a revenue shortfall in the......
SUKKUR: Accusing Prime Minister Imran Khan of trying to facilitate Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday claimed that the government was......
ISLAMABAD: The government has so far brought back more than 225,000 Pakistanis who were stranded in different countries because of the coronavirus pandemic.Special Assistant to Prime Minister on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said a green Pakistan guaranteed a prosperous future for coming generations and asked the nation to join hands in achieving the target of planting 10......
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have put the son of the movement’s founder in charge of their military wing and added several powerful figures to their negotiating team, Taliban officials said.The shake-up,......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday sought to find out the status of Ehsanullah Ehsan, a former spokesman for the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).“Why is he not under anybody’s......
ISLAMABAD: The government will have to show progress in reforms in the tax system, electricity and gas prices adjustment mechanism, subsidies and structuring of public sector entities to get the......
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Friday said the government was pursuing with various courts to get vacated stay orders mainly obtained by sugar......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Food Security Fakhar Imam on Friday expressed surprise over sale of wheat and flour at exorbitant rates soon after the harvest season.The minister’s statement can be......
