At least three workers were burnt to death when a huge fire broke out in an industrial unit in Karachi's Baldia Town, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.One of the victims reportedly died......
The search and rescue operation to locate missing climbers Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri and Juan Pablo Mohr on K2 could not resume on Wednesday as bad weather persisted for the third straight......
Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom’s state television reported, an attack that......
Along with India and EU, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently became successful in inserting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars on the first try. The mission was announced in 2014 and the Hope......
Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric carmaker’s backing of bitcoin this week could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday recorded a trading volume of one billion shares for the first time in 16 years, thanks mainly to contributions by a handful of 'penny stocks'.The......
Hosted by Pakistan, a week-long multination naval exercise is set to begin in the Arabian Sea from Thursday, a move that could set the tone for its enhanced bilateral relations with many countries,......
Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday questioned Prime Minister Imran Khan's stance on granting development funds to lawmakers, observing that a letter submitted by his principal secretary......
Prime Minister Imran Khan lambasted on Wednesday the opposition parties in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), saying they should be asked why they didn't try to stop horse trading in Senate......
The capital remains on edge with a protest being staged by hundreds of government employees in the city continuing late into the night, as talks with authorities so far remain inconclusive.In the......
A divided US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears......
Poor weather on Wednesday continued to hamper the search and rescue mission for climbers Mohammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri and Juan Pablo Mohr who were last seen near the K2 Bottleneck on Friday......
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that if a prisoner on death row is unable to comprehend the rationale behind their punishment due to a mental illness, then carrying out the death sentence does......
The United States is closely monitoring border disputes between India and China and backs their peaceful resolution through direct dialogue, the State Department said on Tuesday, while stressing that......
SHANGLA: The Shangla police claim to have arrested a wanted terrorist during a raid in Karachi.A statement issued here on Tuesday, said Abdul Satar of Lilonai, an alleged Taliban commander, had......
KHYBER: Khyber Qaumi Jirga (KQJ) has demanded immediate separation of tribal districts from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying the merger has pushed the region into further backwardness and deprivation.The......
MELBOURNE: Rafael Nadal’s injured back didn’t slow his bid for a record 21st Grand Slam title on Tuesday, as women’s world number one Ashleigh Barty romped to a 6-0, 6-0 ‘double bagel’ at the......
PESHAWAR: There is not a single oxygen plant in the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite the fact that provincial government spends billions of rupees on improving healthcare system.The health......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s talented leg-spinner Usman Qadir and hard-hitting batsman Haider Ali are upbeat about putting up fine performances against South Africa in the three T20 matches series starting......
SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, on Tuesday repeated its earlier order that elected public representatives should supervise dog-culling drives within their respective areas and submit a......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has fixed Feb 13 for the indictment of a suspect in a case pertaining to alleged violation of Schedule-IV of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.Sarmad Siddiqui, who was......
RAWAPINDI: A despondent South Africa head coach Mark Boucher has claimed the 2-0 defeat in the Test series against Pakistan was catastrophic with lack of match-awareness among the key factors behind......
KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts on Tuesday remanded five foreigners held for allegedly working for the Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies in police custody.The......
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines claimed on Tuesday that it had paid compensation to the families of 20 victims at Rs10 million per deceased person, and said it was still waiting for......
ISLAMABAD: After holding a strike and sit-in for 72 days, the employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Tuesday announced to resume work from Wednesday (today).The announcement......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday disposed of a petition of PML-N MPA Sohail Shaukat Butt and directed the police not to cause any harassment to him.The opposition party leader had approached......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court is set to announce on Wednesday (today) a reserved judgement on a point whether a mentally ill death row prisoner can be executed.Headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, a......
LAHORE: The provincial metropolis will soon have 51 Miyawaki urban forests as the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) is working on the project.Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to inaugurate......
YANGON: Myanmar’s military raided the Yangon headquarters of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party on Tuesday, officials said, as the United States joined the UN in “strongly” condemning violence......
BANGKOK: A Thai court denied bail on Tuesday to four prominent democracy activists after they were indicted for violating the kingdom’s royal defamation law — the first formal charges laid against......
WUHAN: The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of Covid-19 said on Tuesday,......
TAPOVAN: Indian rescue workers struggled on Tuesday to dig away tonnes of rocks and mud to reach survivors in a choked Himalayan tunnel after a devastating flash flood likely triggered by a glacial......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is working on a new type of loan scheme to meet the specific needs of startup companies keeping in view the issues they are facing in raising capital in the......
ISLAMABAD: K-Electric has sought increase in electricity rates on account of fuel cost adjustments for seven months and quarterly adjustments for nine months involving an additional revenue......
KARACHI: Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood on Tuesday assured value-added textile sector stakeholders of raising their problems with Prime Minister Imran Khan and the federal cabinet.In an online......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that a subsidiary or a special purpose vehicle (SPV) of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is likely to be set up by the end of this month that would take......
GWADAR: Bullet-riddled bodies of three people, two of them brothers, were found in Shanzani area along the Coastal Highway on Tuesday.Majid Akbar, Jameel Sahibdad and Hameed Sahibdad were going to......
ISLAMABAD: K2’s “savage” peak beckons the daring, but rare is the climber who answers the call in winter.Dwarfed only by Mount Everest, K2 is the world’s second highest peak at 8,611 metres (28,250......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to convene sessions of the National Assembly and Senate next week on the requisition of the opposition parties to discuss a number of issues, including price......
ISLAMABAD: President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan on Tuesday said a strategy was urgently needed to foil Indian plans to change the demography of occupied Kashmir.“If we do not do......
ISLAMABAD: While 1,008 Covid-19 cases and 40 deaths were reported across the country in a single day, the number of active cases has dropped by around 20,000 over the last two months.The number of......
GOING by talk shows, it seems there is little common ground when it comes to debating politics. However, those that matter in the corridors of politics and power have the same ideas when it comes to......
IT is not for the first time that the Senate elections have generated such intense debate over their transparency. But the issue had never hit such a low before. The spectacle of rowdiness witnessed......
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ “Hope” probe on Tuesday successfully entered Mars’ orbit, making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.The probe is designed to reveal the secrets......
QUETTA: Pakistan has completed 182km of the 213km-long fence at the Afghan border and work on the remaining 31km fence is expected to complete till April, a senior official told the meeting of civil......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has constituted a five-judge headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed to take up a case relating to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s approval of Rs500 million uplift......
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration would like to rebuild America’s relationship with Pakistan and make it more productive than it has been during the recent past, says a senior US scholar.At a......
ISLAMABAD: Army’s top brass on Tuesday emphasised the need for giving precedence to national interest while tackling the challenges facing the country and putting up a united front.The call was made......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday criticised the Sindh government for playing a “dirty role” in last year’s wheat crisis by “hoarding” millions of tonnes of the commodity.The cabinet could......
LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) and Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Tuesday expressed support for the stance of Islamabad’s lawyers protesting against the demolition of their......
ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be another setback to a founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the scrutiny process of the ruling party’s foreign funding case, the scrutiny panel on......
