Israel bombed Gaza on Wednesday after militants fired rockets through the night, overshadowing the signing of landmark normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in......
The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday expressed strong displeasure over the absence of Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umer Sheikh, who recently garnered widespread......
Indian and Chinese border troops had an exchange of gunfire last week just days before a meeting of their foreign ministers, Indian officials said on Wednesday, in a further breach of a decades-old......
The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought “herd immunity” to the public consciousness, kindling hope the phenomenon can help slow or even end the outbreak.Herd immunity refers to a large portion of......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said India was losing credibility at international forums due to its aggressive posturing, Radio Pakistan reported.The foreign minister's comments......
India's coronavirus infections surged past 5 million on Wednesday, piling pressure on hospitals grappling with unreliable supplies of oxygen that they need to treat tens of thousands of critical......
LAHORE: A recently published compilation of the columns of noted journalist Suhail Warraich titled — Yeh Company Nahi Chaley Gi (this company won’t work) — ran into a controversy when it was removed......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has reshuffled portfolios of two members of his cabinet.A notification issued by the chief secretary after approval of the chief minister states that the portfolio......
SYDNEY: Organisers are ploughing ahead with the postponed Tokyo Olympics and will decide by the end of the year what “counter-measures” are required to hold them safely in the time of Covid-19, IOC......
MANCHESTER: Star Australia batsman Steve Smith is recovering from his head injury but is no certainty to be recalled for the One-day International series decider against England at Old Trafford, head......
LAHORE: A fresh medical report of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif submitted to the Lahore High Court reiterates that he must undergo coronary catheterisation as there is a significant part of......
RAWALPINDI: More than 68pc of civilian pilots have been cleared for flying, but 82 pilots will either face cancellation of licences or suspension for a year over minor misconduct in their exams.Out......
KARACHI: A 14-year-old girl died on the first day in her school on Tuesday when educational institutions reopened after more than six month after lockdown imposed in the aftermath of the coronavirus......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Tuesday exonerated estranged Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Dr Farooq Sattar and 13 others in a case pertaining to provoking violence and arson to......
KARACHI: Perturbed over the “poorly conducted online classes” over the past two months, a large number of Karachi University (KU) students on Tuesday protested the administration’s decision to hold......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defence Jim Mattis opposed the operation.“I......
HAMBURG: The lowest price offered in the international tender from the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to buy about 170,000 tonnes of wheat, which closed on Tuesday, was believed to be around......
GENEVA: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Tuesday upheld a complaint by China over additional duties slapped by the Trump administration on some $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, sparking......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained Bahria Town Karachi from raising constructions in violation of the approved plan and building regulations.A two-judge bench headed by Justice......
PARIS: Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth’s vital biodiversity, the United Nations said on Tuesday.Humanity’s impact on......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Tuesday floated the draft ‘Mobile Device Manufacturing Regulations and Authorisation’ to promote local manufacturing of handsets.The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is projected to post broad economic recovery of about two per cent during current fiscal year (2020-21) subject to subsiding Coronavirus disease and the resumption of structural......
NEW DELHI: At least 17 members of the Indian parliament have tested positive for the coronavirus, government officials said on Tuesday, underlining the widening spread of infections set to cross five......
ISLAMABAD: The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) output posted a rebound after suffering months of damage inflicted by Covid-19, as it grew 5.02 per cent in July, showed data released by the Pakistan......
IT was the Saturday after the tragedy when women came out to protest in Karachi. Some days earlier, in the early hours of Wednesday, Sept 9, a young woman was driving on the segment of the motorway......
Southern Balochistan is in focus. A high-level delegation led by Planning Minister Asad Umar is currently visiting the region to prepare for the announcement of a major package by Prime Minister......
QUETTA: All universities, colleges, high schools and religious seminaries in Balochistan reopened on Tuesday after remaining closed for almost nine months.The Balochistan government had closed......
KOHAT: Two men belonging to the Shia community were shot dead inside a medical store at the city’s Peshawar square on Tuesday.Protests broke out in different parts of the city following the firing......
KARACHI: Faced with suspension of flights to many profitable destinations, the Pakistan International Airlines is attempting to explore new options and on Tuesday it announced a special flight......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench on Tuesday referred a set of appeals against the overturning of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh’s death sentence in the Daniel Pearl case to Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is likely to determine if the award of remission to prisoners convicted under terrorism charges is a privilege or a basic right. And to reach a definitive conclusion, a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday called on Yemen’s Houthi militia to halt its military actions targeting the government-held city of Marib and warned that a conflict could lead to human......
MOSCOW: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday he was able to breathe unaided in his first public comments after his suspected poisoning in Siberia, while his aide said he planned to return......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday celebrated its diplomatic victory — the overruling of Indian objection by Russia to displaying of its new political map at an online meeting of national security......
LAHORE: Some people, including a few journalists, are trying to link Pakistan to its current and temporary problems, not to the dreams that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is striving to realise,......
IT was a crime most heinous. The incident happened not very far from Lahore city on the motorway and not in some desolate backwaters. So the outrage was not unexpected. While the tragedy has shaken......
