Kuwait's foreign minister said on Friday that progress had been made towards ending a Gulf row that has seen Saudi Arabia and its allies boycott Qatar for over three years while his Qatari......
A yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 172 people so far, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.The outbreak poses an extra challenge to the country's health system as Africa's most......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday termed the Pakistan Citizen Portal as the "first step on the journey to people's empowerment".While addressing a ceremony on the second anniversary of the portal,......
India summoned Canada’s ambassador on Friday and said comments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over protests by farmers near Delhi were an interference in its domestic affairs and would......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa have left out former captain Faf du Plessis from their squad for the One-day International series against England, which starts at Newlands on Friday.The 36-year-old, who......
HAMILTON: The West Indies delight at winning the toss on a lush green pitch turned to frustration as New Zealand were rarely troubled in posting 243 for two on day one of the first Test at Seddon......
KARACHI: Seamer Waqas Maqsood stole the limelight with a rich six-wicket haul as bowlers overwhelmingly dominated the second day’s action in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy clash between Central Punjab and......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday directed the local government to launch a fresh cleaning drive to keep the city clean.“I want to see all roads, streets and chowks neat......
KARACHI: As 15 more patients of coronavirus died overnight in Sindh and 1,615 new cases emerged, the local administration in Karachi on Thursday extended lockdown in parts of district Central for the......
ISLAMABAD: The employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Thursday continued their protest against the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Ordinance, suspending all services, except......
LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) has cancelled the legal practicing license of eight ‘lawyers’ including its outgoing chairman executive committee Jamil Asghar Bhatti after Punjab University......
NEW YORK: Facebook has decided to revise its hate speech algorithms to prioritise blocking slurs against blacks, Muslims and others that have historically faced discrimination, the Washington Post......
UNITED NAIONS: Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries — without naming names — who rejected the facts about the coronavirus pandemic and ignored guidance from the World......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Thursday approved a ground-breaking initiative to enable all Pakistani resident and non-resident investors to open online......
LONDON: The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and Russia on Thursday agreed to a modest oil output increase from January by 500,000 barrels per day but failed to find a......
ISLAMABAD: A hurriedly-called meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Thursday decided to provide an unspecified amount of subsidy arising out of abolition of peak electricity rates......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday the recent assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist violated international law.“Such acts not only run contrary to all norms of interstate relations and......
ISLAMABAD: As the second wave of Covid-19 continues to surge in the country, President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday issued a declaration to revive the already agreed SOPs (standard operating procedures)......
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government’s counsel Farooq H. Naek on Thursday cited the testimonies of a taxi driver and a police liaison officer to establish that Wall Street Journal journalist Danial Pearl......
QUETTA: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has announced plans to link Pakistan with Afghanistan through railway by laying a track from Chaman to Spin Boldak, the first Afghan town near the......
UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Imran Khan presented a 10-point agenda for urgent action before the UN General Assembly on Thursday, underlining the measures the international community needs to take......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan was told on Thursday that development work on the ambitious multi-billion-rupee Ravi Urban Development Project (RUDP) has started and would be completed in......
ISLAMABAD: The controversial provision empowering the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to detain an accused for 90 days came on the radar of the Supreme Court when on Thursday Justice Umar Ata......
RAWALPINDI: The European Commission has decided to retain the ban on Pakistan International Airlines operations in its member countries and asked the country’s aviation authorities to remove safety......
THE present government has been roundly criticised for its handling of the economy ever since it took office over two years ago. In rich irony, the sharpest criticism has come from PML-N, which......
IN many ways, the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) jalsa in Multan was the most significant one among the public meetings held so far. It was held in an area of Punjab considered to be at some......
