Two officials of the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Lahore were suspended for "inefficiency and negligence of duty" on Tuesday after a furore on social media over a statue of Allama Iqbal......
Scientists gave Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine the green light on Tuesday saying it was almost 92 per cent effective in fighting Covid-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial results published in The......
Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa's mobile phone has been hacked, the apex court's public relations office said on Tuesday."The cell phone of Justice Qazi Faez Isa has been hacked and there is......
Four people were killed in a car crash in the capital on Monday night after a four-wheel drive, allegedly driven by the son of federal ombudswoman Kashmala Tariq, crashed into another vehicle on......
Australia's cricket tour of South Africa has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cricket Australia said in a statement on Tuesday.Australian players were scheduled to fly out this month for......
At least 11 people were killed and eight injured on Tuesday when a passenger coach overturned on the Quetta-Karachi road near Uthal in Balochistan's Lasbela district, officials said.The driver of the......
Four TikTokers, including one female, were shot dead near Anklesaria Hospital in Karachi's Garden area early on Tuesday morning, officials said.City Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sarfaraz......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed authorities to move Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime accused in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, from a death cell in the Karachi Central......
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been left off a list of Chinese entrepreneurial leaders published by state media — the snub underscoring just how far he has fallen out of favour with......
Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the country's capital on Tuesday, a day after the military staged a coup and detained senior......
Pakistan will look to end a 17-year wait for a series win against South Africa and leapfrog the Proteas in the rankings in the second Test starting on Thursday.Victory would be poignant for Pakistan,......
GILGIT: Two teams of mountaineers are planning to make another attempt to scale K2 by Feb 5 as the weather is usually sunny.According to a tour organiser, Asghar Ali Porik, a three-member expedition......
JAKARTA: A coup in Myanmar has left the military in control under a one-year state of emergency, while the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians have been detained.......
ANKARA; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday it may be time for Turkey to adopt a new constitution, feeding speculation that he could seek a way to extend his rule.Erdogan, 66, has governed......
IN the old days of print journalism, some of us were trained to keep the self out of what we wrote. But as all rules are meant to be broken here and there, here goes.I did my ‘O’ Levels from a......
THEY can chop journalists into pieces in Saudi Arabia and pour acid on the remains to wipe out all traces of the crime. Should that prompt our struggling democracies to pat themselves on the back?......
THEY can chop journalists into pieces in Saudi Arabia and pour acid on the remains to wipe out all traces of the crime. Should that prompt our struggling democracies to pat themselves on the back?......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has redefined the powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for issuing call-up notices to individuals and declared that a person could be summoned......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday rejected the opposition’s criticism of ‘diplomatic isolation’ and called for forging bipartisan consensus on foreign policy issues.Winding......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved a mega project to solarize tube wells in Balochistan to provide uninterrupted electricity and overcome power sector losses.The project was......
TAXILA/RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan claimed on Monday that there was Indian lobby’s conspiracy behind the seizure of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has upheld the trial of political activist Mohammad Idrees Khattak by a field general court martial (FGCM) for allegedly providing ‘official secrets’ regarding......
ISLAMABAD: Five members of a family were found dead in a house in the rural area of the capital on Monday, police said.The family of Mohammad Rafaqat, a naib qasid in Pakistan Navy, was living in the......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has formed an 11-member parliamentary board headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan for award of tickets for upcoming Senate elections.According to a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reached another milestone by launching the second phase of vaccination against typhoid in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Punjab.The campaign started in 12 districts of......
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Health Dr Yasmin Rashid said on Monday Chief Minister Usman Buzdar would launch the Covid-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday (tomorrow).She declared that the vaccine would......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday directed the Karachi administration to start an anti-encroachment drive along the Gujjar nullah from Wednesday and also issued directives for......
Increasing the number of referrals would not decrease the authority of the umpire, but taking out the ridiculous “Umpire’s call’’ perhaps would. On the other hand, it would make the game infinitely......
ISLAMABAD: A shipment of 2,078 head of cattle from the United States has arrived as part of a strong partnership between the US Department of Agriculture and Pakistan’s dairy sector.Roughly 95 per......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports grew for the fifth consecutive month in January to $2.14 billion, up to eight per cent from $1.98bn in the corresponding month last year, data released by the Ministry......
LOWER DIR: Security forces thwarted an infiltration attempt by terrorists close to the Afghan border in Lower Dir by killing three of them, official sources said.The security forces conducted an......
ISLAMABAD: The first-ever marathon telephonic interaction of Prime Minister Imran Khan with the nation on Monday was recorded with utmost care as the callers were given access to the premier for......
AARHUS (Denmark): The year Pakistan’s internet users crossed 90 million with a broadband penetration of 42.2pc, the government led consistent efforts to regulate the online experience of......
MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Monday backed a request to imprison opposition leader Alexei Navalny for several years on old charges, after police detained a record number of anti-Kremlin protesters......
ISLAMABAD: Helped by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, the government on Monday hurriedly passed three bills, including the one seeking establishment of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday issued a circular to banks following the government’s decision to replace life certificates with biometric verification of pensioners twice a year,......
