The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday for normalising relations with Israel, becoming the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of......
British Airways on Tuesday announced it will begin flying direct from Lahore to London Heathrow four days a week, commencing on October 14.The airline, which resumed flights to Pakistan after more......
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday sent a suspect in the motorway gang-rape case to jail on a 14-day judicial remand.Shafqat Ali alias Bagga, whose arrest was announced by Punjab......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al Azizia reference.The court issued the directions while hearing three......
A top court in India is set to take up three petitions requesting that the media be restrained from reporting on the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and the ongoing investigation into......
What are the different types of coronavirus tests?There are three broad categories of coronavirus tests in the US. Two diagnose whether you have an active infection, and a third indicates if you......
US President Donald Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics and......
IT’S a common error of perception to confuse political impunity with popularity. The distinction makes a big difference in understanding the core features of fascism, which have mostly eluded South......
The Foreign Office on Tuesday rejected the "unwarranted references" to Pakistan in the statement issued by the US-India Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group and Designations Dialogue, which......
PESHAWAR/ Mansehra: Members of the transgender community have expressed serious concern over the increasing incidents of violence on the community people and demanded of the government to take......
PESHAWAR: The treasury members snubbed an opposition lawmaker in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday for criticising the speaker over the appointment of a matriculate as the chairperson of the......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Monday stayed trial by an anti-terrorism court of a suspected killer of an under-trial blasphemy accused as he has requested it to set aside order of......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to close its two field isolation centres, set up in the wake of Covid-19 emergency situation, at the Expo Centre and PAF Museum in the city.This decision was......
KARACHI: Already strained relations between the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government at the centre and Sindh government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) soured further on Monday when the provincial......
LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has deplored the PTI government’s ‘apathy’ towards motorway incident, saying it has given a clear message that it cannot give protection to women drivers......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed retired Justice Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan as the independent adjudicator for hearing former Test captain Saleem Malik’s appeal in the case concerning the......
KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Ehsan Mani and CEO Wasim Khan will meet Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday to brief him on all recent cricketing matters and also will get approval from......
NEW YORK: Austria’s Dominic Thiem finally claimed his maiden Grand Slam title with a stunning comeback to beat Germany’s Alexander Zverev 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) in a nerve-jangling battle of......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will spend around Rs15 million on players, support personnel and match officials’ Covid-19 testing during the 2020-21 domestic season starting with the......
ISLAMABAD: The British government’s credit financing agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) has increased its financing limit to £1.5 billion for UK businesses looking to export and invest in Pakistan.This......
ISLAMABAD: To check the possibility of anti-competitive activities in the sugar industry, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Monday carried out a search and inspection of Pakistan Sugar......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday said Islamic banking and finance offered a broad-based platform to end economic exploitation and stressed its implementation to uplift underprivileged......
IT was hard to figure out what to write this week. Not that there was a shortage of issues but it is occasionally (perhaps frequently?) difficult to figure out what to say about the much-discussed......
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday a bill that would break international law by breaching parts of the Brexit divorce deal was needed because the European Union had not taken......
ISLAMABAD: The US Embassy in Islamabad warned it citizens of an increase in the number of crimes in the capital, Dawn has learnt.The US Embassy issued an alert informing the American citizens living......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Minorities has decided to visit various areas of Sindh to meet the victims of forced conversion to asses the circumstances on ground and ensure timely and......
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will change the fate of not only Pakistan but also the entire......
UNITED NATIONS: The annual meetings of the United Nations began in New York on Monday with Kashmir on the agenda as an unresolved dispute.In doing so, the world body ignored India’s efforts to remove......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Monday asserted that no one under the ambit of law would be allowed to undermine the independence of the judiciary enshrined in the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the country has entered the industrialisation phase and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will help boost the industry sector.“Our strategic......
LAHORE: In a major breakthrough, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Police raided a house in Okara district and arrested a motorway gang-rape suspect who confessed to his crime before his DNA......
• Imran terms it collective responsibility to ensure safety of schoolchildren • NCOC issues SOPs to prevent spread of virus • Govt vows to take action against non-complying schoolsISLAMABAD: After a......
IT was hard to figure out what to write this week. Not that there was a shortage of issues but it is occasionally (perhaps frequently?) difficult to figure out what to say about the much-discussed......
LOOK around at the leading economies in the world and you will find that all of them have a robust innovation ecosystem that is propelling their society, and the world at large, forward. These......
