Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the chief of the military's media wing, has said that India is engaged in a massive campaign of 'fifth-generation warfare' to obstruct Pakistan’s road to prosperity mainly......
A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of Pakistan won an international......
Azerbaijan said on Thursday that nearly 2,800 of its soldiers were killed in recent fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, the first details it has released of military losses in weeks of clashes with......
British regulators have become the first to authorise the Covid-19 vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech for emergency use. Because trials of the vaccine have shown it......
It is hard to decipher which is worse: what he said, how he said it, or when he said it. What is relatively less hard to decipher is this: the combined might of PTI’s sundry mouthpieces could not......
TOKYO: Athletes at the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo Olympics will face regular testing, restrictions on mingling and potential punishment for non-compliance with health rules, organisers said on......
MITHI: Activists of almost all political parties and civil society staged a powerful demonstration at Kashmir Chowk here on Wednesday in protest against medical superintendent of Mithi Civil Hospital......
KARACHI: As the Covid-19 cases are soaring across the country, the second wave of the pandemic is taking a high toll on medical professionals, causing the death of 10 doctors within five days and......
ISLAMABAD: Employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Wednesday, while protesting against the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Ordinance, suspended all services, apart from the......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to transfer DIG Investigation Shahzada Sultan over his alleged differences with Capital City Police Officer Umar Sheikh on various administrative issues.Mr......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has warned the PTI government against creating hurdles in its Lahore’s Dec 13 rally, saying such tactics may lead to violent clashes.The PDM leaders......
LAHORE: With Covid fatality rate reaching an alarming level of 2.5 percent in Punjab on Wednesday, the bed occupancy has also risen to 1,169 in both public and private sector hospitals across the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday approved the Civil Servants (E&D) Rules-2020 under government’s policy of institutional reforms to improve performance of bureaucracy and state......
AHMEDABAD: Five brothers have been arrested in India after a man was paraded naked in the streets allegedly in punishment for a social media post, police said on Wednesday.Police said that the......
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia has granted the United Nations access to deliver aid to the northern region of Tigray, following weeks of lobbying amid military operations there, according to an agreement on......
GENEVA: This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded and could even top the record set in 2016, the United Nations said on Wednesday.The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are......
SINGAPORE: Lab-grown chicken will soon be available in restaurants in Singapore after the country became the first to green-light meat created without slaughtering any animals.US start-up Eat Just......
ISLAMABAD: As the cane crushing has commenced in Sindh and Punjab, the prices of refined sugar have started to decline sharply by around 20 per cent at the retail markets.Even the prime minister has......
KARACHI: Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, the soft-spoken and affable gentleman with a genial smile, is no more.Mir Jamali, Pakistan’s only prime minister from the troubled province of Balochistan, was a......
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to add eight new narrow-body aircraft to its fleet on dry lease.The aircraft with seating capacity of 170-plus (all economy with soft......
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) is expected to deliberate on Thursday over the elevation of two prominent lawyers to the position of judge of the Islamabad High Court......
THE government seems to have decided to take a great leap backward with its proposed punishment for persons found guilty of rape, for which the penalty even at present is death.It has decided to add......
THE government seems to have decided to take a great leap backward with its proposed punishment for persons found guilty of rape, for which the penalty even at present is death.It has decided to add......
