Remittances from Pakistani workers employed abroad hit the highest level for a single month in July, officials said on Monday, increasing 36.5 per cent year on year, mostly thanks to less spending on......
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Monday strongly emphasised that "under no condition would Sindh share powers with anyone".Addressing a press conference in Karachi, he said that although the......
Pakistan's Mohammad Abbas took two wickets on Monday as a weather-interrupted second Test against England at Southampton ended in a predictable draw.England were 110-4 in reply to Pakistan's first......
Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the Pakistan embassy in Riyadh said, amid a diplomatic spat that has threatened Riyadh's financial life line to the......
Indian politicians are trading barbs over a media report that Facebook Inc’s content policies favoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, putting the social network at the centre of a political......
The British government faced the threat of legal action and criticism from its own lawmakers on Sunday after it sparked anger by mishandling English exam grades during the pandemic.After a nationwide......
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has allocated Rs11.652 billion for the ongoing development schemes in the energy and power sector while Rs1.281 billion will be spent on new projects.It was......
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has hinted at launching a movement to oust the government, saying the present rulers must be thrown out of power to save the......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police have decided to improve relations with the community and garner public support by resolving issues at their doorsteps, Assistant Superintendent of Police Rana Hussain......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has decided to reopen its outpatient departments (OPD) on Monday.Because of a surge in Covid-19 cases at the hospital on Saturday, the......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh chapter president Nisar Khuhro has announced that PPP will hold province-wide protests on Aug 19 over Karachi’s issues and federal government’s intention......
GAZA CITY: Israel’s army launched new air strikes on Sunday against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into......
MANAMA: A woman in Bahrain seen smashing statues of the Hindu deity Ganesha in a video published online has been charged with intentional damage and publically insulting a religious symbol.The police......
BANGKOK: Thousands of protesters rallied against Thailand’s government in Bangkok on Sunday with tensions rising in the kingdom as a pro-democracy movement gathers steam.Thailand has seen near-daily......
WARSAW; US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday sealed a defence cooperation deal with Polish officials that will pave the way for the redeployment of American troops from Germany to Poland.In......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency contractor — now living in Russia — whose spectacular......
LISBON: Gabriel Jesus was crouching on the field and crying. Not even the Manchester City jersey covering his face could mask the agony.Raheem Sterling was lying across the turf, his hands crossed......
KARACHI: The Sports Medicine Association of Pakistan (SMAP) received a major breakthrough when it inked back-to-back agreements with Australian and England counterparts to teach their module to......
LONDON: Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was named the Premier League Player of the Season on Sunday, becoming just the third Belgian to win the award for the league’s top performer.The......
SOUTHAMPTON: Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq said Mahendra Singh Dhoni had ‘changed the whole face of Indian cricket’ after the former captain announced his international retirement on......
SOUTHAMPTON: Wasim Akram has insisted England ‘owe’ Pakistan for proceeding with their ongoing tour amid the coronavirus pandemic as he urged the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) officials to......
Americans increased their retail purchases by 1.2 per cent in July, with solid gains in appliances and clothing, restoring sales to their level before the viral pandemic erupted in March.Sales at......
Wheat producers and consumer are in a fix once again in Sindh. The surge in prices of wheat and flour continues as the government is reluctant to release its stock for millers and chakki (millstone)......
Sixteen years ago, the Mansha group made the first and perhaps the only successful hostile takeover bid in the country’s corporate history.Adamjee Insurance had been a family-owned entity for over 50......
The government announced in March an inflated Rs1.24 trillion relief and stimulus package for people and various sectors of the economy to withstand the massive shock of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fresh......
The world is still in the process of resettling and the trade outlook is marred with the risk of a second wave of Covid-19 cases. But Pakistan has surprised itself with the export performance in July......
ISLAMABAD: Although the country has faced a severe oil supply crisis in recent months, the oil industry and the federal ministries have been fighting over allocation of berthing rights for oil import......
RAWALPINDI: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Director General Hassan Nasir Jamy has ordered an inquiry into the leakage at Islamabad International Airport, which caused parts of its false ceiling to......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has announced opening of all provincial and divisional departments and outdoor patients departments (OPDs) at all government-run hospitals in the province from......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif has directed the party leadership to take other opposition parties on board on doing “aggressive” politics after Muharram.Mr Sharif......
WASHINGTON: The historian who has correctly predicted every US presidential election since 1984 has made his pick for 2020: Joe Biden.Professor Allan Lichtman, a Harvard scholar who teaches history......
DUBAI: The UAE and Israeli foreign ministers held their first publicly-acknowledged call on Sunday after the Gulf state opened telephone lines to Israel as part of a normalisation of ties.Israel and......
ISLAMABAD: The ordinances promulgated by the government have outnumbered the laws passed by the National Assembly during its second parliamentary year which ended on August 12, exposing the dismal......
• CM’s adviser and provincial minister differ on formation of six-member body • GDA, JUI-F reject developmentKARACHI: Intervention from the highest level of the establishment over the issue of......
ISLAMABAD: Amid calls from the provinces for transparency, the federal government has started real-time monitoring of oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) through a dashboard application......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has said that the recent statement by Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari has exposed the confusion prevailing in the frontline ranks at the......
WHEN the expression “alternative facts” was famously used a few years ago by Kellyanne Conway, a senior aide of President Donald Trump, it created an uproar in the American media. But it also......
