Indian politicians and activists on Monday condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of sedition for helping edit an online document that Sweden’s Greta Thunberg had promoted......
Faculty members of the University of Karachi (KU) on Monday protested the beating of their colleague allegedly by students of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and its guards recently.A......
Days after a strong earthquake struck several parts of Pakistan, tremors of magnitude 3.9 jolted Swat and adjacent areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, according to the National Seismic Monitoring......
As Hungary joined Serbia in spearheading mass inoculation with China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine in Europe, other European countries are struggling against a vaccine delivery crisis and exploring a......
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has applauded China's determination to prioritize the climate and its contributions to carbon reduction, saying the world benefits from the country's efforts to make......
The government has introduced the medical visa category in a recently revised policy, easing rules for people seeking entry in Pakistan for health emergencies and work, an official and documents seen......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday said people from all walks of life were struggling to survive due to the inflation caused by the government's policies, asking alleged "selectors" not to......
Days before season six of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) begins, Multan Sultans announced on Monday that Mohammad Rizwan will be leading the side in place of Shan Masood.Rizwan, who is also the......
Oil prices soared on Monday to their highest in about 13 months as fears of heightened tensions in the Middle East prompted fresh buying, while hopes that a US stimulus and an easing of lockdowns......
A rider from Bykea, a local on-demand transport and logistics platform, allegedly threatened to rape and kill a female journalist, it emerged on Monday.In a tweet mentioning the company's official......
TAPOVAN: Rescuers on Sunday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley devastated by a flash flood a week ago, where 161 people remain missing.Scores......
ANKARA: Troops have found the bodies of 13 Turkish citizens abducted by Kurdish insurgents in a cave complex in northern Iraq, the Turkish defence minister said on Sunday.Hulusi Akar said 12 of the......
KARACHI: The electioneering for the by-election on the Sindh Assembly seat, PS-88 Malir, has almost come to an end and all arrangements have been finalised to hold the polling on Feb 16.The......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Sunday described the decision to fix the price of a 40 kilo bag of wheat in Punjab at Rs1,800 as an ‘anti-farmer decision’ saying that the decision of the Pakistan......
PESHAWAR: The private schools have increased monthly tuition fee despite the closures of educational institutions for eight months in one year since the outbreak of pandemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.By......
LAKKI MARWAT: A man and his two sons were shot dead over irrigation water dispute in Bannu district on Sunday.The police said Musharraf Khan shot and killed Dost Ali and his sons, Junaid Khan and......
SWABI: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser said here on Sunday that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government came into power to eradicate corruption and it would not compromise with the elements who......
RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday announced that Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would be welcomed if the opposition alliance acted within the ambit of law during its......
KASUR: Relatives of a woman who gave birth to a baby in a toilet of the Chunian Tehsil Headquarters Hospital on Sunday, have accused the gynaecologist concerned of negligence.According to Qurban Ali,......
LAHORE: The PML-N’s announcement about nominating five more candidates for Senate seats from Punjab has created confusion among the party ranks.Party Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb issued a......
LAHORE: Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago John Mearsheimer has expressed fears that the Cold War between China and the US would have consequences for the smaller countries......
KARACHI: Quetta Gladiators have been the only HBL Pakistan Super League franchise which has retained the captain, head coach and mentor for the sixth straight season as Sarfaraz Ahmed, Moin Khan and......
MELBOURNE: Eight-time winner Novak Djokovic fought through what he had described as a tournament-ending injury to beat Milos Raonic and reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday.Naomi Osaka......
CHENNAI: India seized control of the second Test after their spinners wreaked havoc on a dustbowl and skittled out England for 134 at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday.The hosts......
LAHORE: The investigation against the issuance of the accreditation card to a bookie for the second Test between Pakistan and South Africa held in Rawalpindi from Feb 4-8 is in progress and those......
A Pakistan-Chinese automotive joint venture, Master Changan Motors (MCM), plans to turn its $136 million complete knock-down (CKD) assembly plant in Karachi into a hub of export for the Chinese......
It is mission impossible — others think it is downright suicidal. But that is the path that the district of Sahiwal is walking on. By learning from its neighbouring districts, it is increasingly......
In the first seven months of the current fiscal year, the federal government’s net borrowings from banks rose to Rs906.5 billion, up from Rs703bn in the same period of the last year, according to the......
The two-year-long controversy over unaffordable and expensive electricity generation contracts has almost come to an end with the signing of revised agreements with 46 private investors and dozens of......
The Pakistan stock market set another record in the later part of the previous week when the traded volume crossed a billion shares in a day.It had last seen a billion shares change hands in a single......
The Pakistan stock market set another record in the later part of the previous week when the traded volume crossed a billion shares in a day.It had last seen a billion shares change hands in a single......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday condemned in strongest terms the heinous act of terrorism in which 13 Turkish nationals were martyred in Gara, Iraq.According to media reports, the militants had......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Tax Ombudsman Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to initiate and finalise proceedings against non-compliant withholding agents under the Income......
ISLAMABAD: While 1,404 more people tested positive for coronavirus and 31 lost their lives over the past 24 hours, the number of active cases in the country has reduced by half in two-and-a-half......
ISLAMABAD: Despite an extension in the period for submission of nomination papers for coming Senate polls by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and official announcement of the names of all......
ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to sublet unutilised and surplus capacity at existing Liquefied Natural Gas terminals to cut LNG tariff and restrict their further expansion to give a clear......
• PMO takes action against officers for failing to respond to Citizen’s Portal complaints • PMDU report says 263 officers given warning letters, seven show-cause notices, 833 asked to be......
PAKISTAN’S politics looks increasingly like the rerun of an old movie in which the actors remain the same and so does the plot which twists and turns to an unsurprising end. The political fracas......
WHENEVER freedom of speech becomes a little too free for the taste of the bench, it summons to its defence a very peculiar and archaic offence — that of ‘scandalising the court’, a specialised breed......
