A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunisation campaign,......
The Pakistan Super League 2021 match scheduled for Monday was put off by a day after a player from the Islamabad United squad tested positive for the coronavirus.The match between United and Quetta......
Members of the government and the opposition both claimed victory over the Supreme Court's (SC) opinion on the issue of secret ballot in the upcoming Senate elections, which was announced early on......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran on Monday for an explosion aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week, an accusation rejected by Tehran.The vehicle-carrier MV......
The fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi called on Monday for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to be punished after a US intelligence report found he had approved the killing.Khashoggi,......
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6......
The Supreme Court on Monday announced its opinion on the presidential reference regarding Senate elections, saying that polls for the upper house of parliament will be held through secret ballot,......
IT is a measure of the volatility of Pakistani politics that the momentum can suddenly shift between rival political forces. Recent developments have helped to revive the political fortunes of the......
IT is a measure of the volatility of Pakistani politics that the momentum can suddenly shift between rival political forces. Recent developments have helped to revive the political fortunes of the......
THE recent developments on the Line of Control have engendered a great deal of debate, or at least what passes for debate in our discourse. That discourse is as tedious as it is predictable, littered......
“IT is so amazing what bees do,” said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam at the launch of the ‘Billion Tree Honey’ programme in Islamabad recently. “Bees have......
KARACHI: Cracks appeared in the ranks of joint opposition in Sindh on Sunday as lawmakers belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) skipped an important meeting with the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: As the Senate election is being held on Wednesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan has cancelled all his official engagements and decided to directly supervise the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s......
ISLAMABAD: With most of the Covid-related restrictions having been relaxed despite lukewarm response of even health workers to the government-run vaccination campaign, health experts fear a......
• Bilawal says treasury MNAs not bound to vote for govt candidates • JUI-F chief claims disappointment visible in govt ranksISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on......
SINGAPORE: Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday — the bloodiest day in weeks of demonstrations against a military coup — and at least 18 people were killed, the UN human......
ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division seems reluctant to implement the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) landmark decision on the NA-75 (Daska) by-election controversy and instead wants the......
HONG KONG: Dozens of Hong Kong dissidents were charged with subversion on Sunday in the largest use yet of Beijing’s sweeping new national security law, as authorities seek to tackle the finance......
LAHORE: After a gap of nine years or so, the Istanbul-Islamabad freight train is likely to resume operations on March 4, connecting goods train business of three countries —Turkey, Iran and......
Corporate Pakistan is gearing up for the post-pandemic world as the new cases decelerate and the vaccination drive continues to roll out at pace. Sentiments are rising steadily in business circles as......
If there’s one thing that symbolises the banking sector in Pakistan, it’s mediocrity. They are slow, painful, rent-seeking and, most importantly, minnows. Sure, not so much if we look at the stock......
Yes, it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and that’s exactly why stock markets around the world are getting so unsettled.Optimism for an economic revival is surging following a year of......
In almost the last two years, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has taken quite a few initiatives to ease its foreign exchange regime to boost exports and attract foreign investments — direct and......
The lack of consensus at the National Finance Commission (NFC) in evolving a new award every five years since the 7th award was announced 11 years ago is creating a problem in updating the horizontal......
If proof is needed for under-utilisation, ineffectiveness, irrelevance or even failure of agriculture institutions, the district of Faisalabad provides it. Having four internationally-acclaimed......
Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit in January swelled to $2.67 billion, showing a whopping 24.4 per cent increase over January 2020.According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the......
KARACHI: The high-voltage derby HBL Pakistan Super League clash on Sunday night was as boisterous as everyone had anticipated. And despite being buoyed by the support from the noisy crowd, Karachi......
ABBOTTABAD/HARIPUR: People came out on the roads in different parts of the Abbottabad city on Saturday and in Haripur on Sunday to protest alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by an undertrial......
PESHAWAR/BAJAUR: The funeral prayer in absentia of Awami National Party information secretary for Balochistan Asad Khan Achakzai was held at Bacha Khan Markaz in Peshawar on Sunday and party leaders......
SWAT: The three-day sports and cultural festival also concluded amid colours and adventures in Gabin Jabba on Sunday.The festival attracted a large number of tourists from across the country. The......
PESHAWAR: All the districts, except Peshawar and Abbottabad, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa don’t have nursery wards in public sector health facilities to provide specialised treatment to the newborn babies......
TAXILA: A nine-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in Natroppa in the jurisdiction of Hazro police station on Sunday.Behram Khan, the victim’s father, informed the police that......
RAWALPINDI: A team of experts from the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) visited Sujan Singh Haveli to finalise PC-I of its preservation and restoration.Rawalpindi Metropolitan Corporation......
ISLAMABAD: Protesters twice blocked Murree Road at Bhara Kahu on Sunday over the assassination of three people, including a leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazal (JUI-F), on Saturday night.After......
LAHORE: The PML-N has begun a fundraising campaign to finance the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s long march likely to be held by the end of the current month (March).The leadership estimates that the......
MUZAFFARGARH: Two people were seriously injured in an alleged bid to extract metal from a mortar bomb, mistaking it for an empty shell, at a workshop, when it resulted in a blast near Chowk Sarwar......
LAHORE: Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Vice Chairman S M Imran has said the cost of an apartment to be constructed under LDA City Naya Pakistan scheme will be around Rs2.7 million, and the......
SUKKUR: A man gunned down his sister and a relative in the name of honour in Mirani village near Pano Akil on Sunday.Villagers said that Asghar Mirani shot dead his sister Zainab Khatoon after ......
KARACHI: Even a particularly warm and sunny Sunday afternoon could not stop people from all walks of life to gather on Marriott Road to plant trees and shrubs there. The red clay pavement tiles led......
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that it is because of his party that there is no ‘no-go’ area for any ethnic group in the city today as people of all......
SANAA: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed missile and drone strikes that targeted Saudi Arabia on Saturday night and threatened more attacks.Houthi fighters have intensified operations against......
DUBAI: An Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered a mysterious explosion in the Gulf of Oman came to Dubai’s port for repairs on Sunday, days after the blast that revived security concerns in Mideast......
KARACHI: On his Instagram profile, Saim Shazli’s bio describes his golfing motto: “Swing fast, hit hard, hit long”.At the Karachi Golf Club on Sunday, the 24-year-old did exactly that to win a second......
BERLIN: A last-gasp Alexander Sorloth goal sealed RB Leipzig’s dramatic 3-2 comeback win at home to Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and kept them in the thick of the Bundesliga title......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has given approval to the eagerly-awaited First Boards of the six cricket associations at its 61st Board of Governors (BoG) meeting while empowering the......
MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony east of Moscow to serve a term for violating parole, a public commission that monitors detainees’ rights said on......
