CanSino Biologics Inc's (CanSinoBIO) Covid-19 vaccine showed 74.8 per cent efficacy in preventing symptomatic cases and a 100pc success rate in stopping severe disease among Pakistanis in an interim......
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday demanded that the "establishment stay away" from Senate polls and politics, warning that if the Senate elections were "made controversial", it would......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the ulema and Islamic scholars of Pakistan to play their role in Pakistan's "intellectual revolution" and making it the country it was meant to be.Addressing......
India lost Rohit Sharma in their chase for 420 after Ravichandran Ashwin took six wickets to dismiss England for 178 on day four of the opening Test on Monday.The hosts reached 39 for one at stumps......
Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the director-general of Pakistan Army's media wing, on Monday rejected rumours that the armed forces and opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), were in......
China has donated Covid-19 vaccines for Pakistan's armed forces, a statement by the military's media affairs wing said on Monday.In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that......
Officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh Police on Monday killed one and arrested five suspected militants in an intelligence-based operation in Karachi and foiled a potential......
The search operation to locate three mountaineers, including Pakistan's Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and JP Mohr from Chile, on K2 was temporarily suspended on the third day on......
After barging into the Islamabad High Court building and rioting outside the chief justice's chambers, lawyers on Monday presented six demands including reconstruction of chambers as well as......
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan made a number of assertions recently at the launch of a documentary film about the irrelevance of promoting a ‘soft image’ of the country. These statements warrant comment......
NOWSHERA: Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khan Khattak has said that Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman has directed the vice-chancellors of all the public sector universities to refrain from exerting political pressure on him for making decision in......
RAWALPINDI: Commissioner retired Capt Mohammad Mehmood has said the Walled City of Lahore Authority has sought a week’s time to review the PC-I to reduce the cost of Sujan Singh Haveli project -......
LAHORE: PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz’s daughter Mehrunnissa suffered head injury in a road accident on Sunday.She was taken to the Sharif Medical City where she underwent surgery and was later......
GUJRAT: The mainstream opposition parties think that the PTI government can only hold the local polls under pressure of the Supreme Court as the situation is not favourable to take such a risk amid......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari held a detailed meeting with new office-bearers of the party’s district and city chapters of Larkana at Naudero House on Sunday.He......
KARACHI: Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was booked by the Karachi police in a case pertaining to attempted murder and......
LONDON: The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine fails to prevent mild and moderate cases of the South African coronavirus strain, researchers said on Sunday.The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,......
NEW DELHI: India has approved the shipment of Covid-19 vaccine to Cambodia and plans to supply Mongolia and Pacific Island states, officials said on Sunday, as supplies arrived in Afghanistan — all......
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is weaning itself off user-tracking “cookies” which allow the web giant to deliver personalised ads but which also have raised the hackles of privacy defenders.Last month,......
MELBOURNE: Ash Barty didn’t play competitive tennis in almost a year. It seems like she didn’t miss a beat.Top-ranked Barty cashed in on her first championship point against Garbine Muguruza in the......
Pakistan has proven to be unique. She managed to escape the catastrophe and succeeded in orchestrating the economic recovery quicker and at a pace faster than others despite all odds. A closer look,......
Every other day, there is a statement from someone in the government on Pakistan’s potential in the tech sector and how that can be harnessed. One of the favourite talking points within that ambit is......
If one could tear up two months — February and March — from the calendar of 2020, global stock markets would not know the ravages of Covid-19.The market crash on Wall Street and much of Europe and......
Three economic things can add to or subtract from the political capital of politicians in power. These are: economic growth, employment levels and inflation.When a government aims to achieve a......
The federal government has transferred Rs1.28 trillion to the provinces as their share under the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award — from the divisible tax pool and as straight transfers —......
Every other day, there is a statement from someone in the government on Pakistan’s potential in the tech sector and how that can be harnessed. One of the favourite talking points within that ambit is......
GWADAR: A brother of two senior police officers has been gunned down in Turbat town of Kech district.Police said Hafiz Abdul Karim was attacked in the Satellite town area when he was going home after......
PESHAWAR: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) on Sunday organised a public meeting near Northern Bypass after the authorities did not allow it to hold one in the Superior Science College ground.The......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani on Sunday claimed that the province had received ample funds from the federal government in the past, but a major chunk of the money had been......
RAWALPINDI: Following the government’s efforts to promote exports, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has started lifting kinnow cargo for the United Kingdom.A PIA spokesman said that in line......
ISLAMABAD: The seventh report of the one-man Dr Shoaib Suddle commission submitted to the Supreme Court has depicted a dismal picture of most revered Hindu sites in the country.The report submitted......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank-assisted project to improve water use in agriculture is progressing satisfactorily as 13,637 watercourses in Punjab have been improved, exceeding the original target of......
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that opposition parties should keep their protests within the ambit of the law.Talking to journalists here on Sunday after laying the......
NEW DELHI: At least 200 people were missing in northern India after a piece of Himalayan glacier fell into a river, causing a torrent that buried two power plants and swept away roads and bridges,......
KARACHI: Expressing serious reservations over the Elections (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 that the government promulgated just two days after abandoning its efforts to get the constitution amendment......
ON Thursday, a little after sunset, there is something more to add to routine business and the customary congestion at Surjani Town’s Sector 8 as dozens of men, women and children are lined up......
ISLAMABAD: Amid sharp criticism by opposition parties of the promulgation of the Elections (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 for open vote in the coming Senate polls, Adviser to the Prime Minister on......
ISLAMABAD: As the first phase of inoculation of frontline healthcare workers against Covid-19 continues, Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday alleged that the......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan pointed out on Sunday that a United Nations monitoring report highlighting the presence of various terrorist groups in Afghanistan had vindicated Islamabad’s longstanding......
ISLAMABAD: Contesting objections by the federal entities, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is pushing for a transmission and grid system licence to ensure evacuation of about 7,300MW of its power......
