A man was axed to death on Wednesday over allegations of blasphemy in Punjab's Jhang district, it emerged on Friday.Police said Taqi Shah, a religious scholar from the Shia community, and his friend......
At least four people were killed in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong on Friday after police fired at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police......
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Babar has been asked to resign from his position over the fuel crisis, federal minister Asad Umar announced on Friday.Addressing a press......
Pakistan Rangers, Sindh on Friday claimed to have arrested an impostor, who was allegedly impersonating an army officer to commit various crimes in Karachi.The suspect, identified by the Rangers......
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party are making a serious bid for electoral victories in three states that have sizeable minority Muslim populations.But the Bharatiya......
Pakistan on Friday conducted a successful flight test of the Shaheen 1-A surface-to-surface ballistic missile, a statement issued by the military's media wing said.The test flight was aimed at......
A local court in Peshawar ordered the registration of a first information report (FIR) on Thursday against organisers of this year's Aurat March in Islamabad for allegedly making "derogatory......
Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh was charge-sheeted by police on Wednesday for instigating his party activists to resort to "violence, rioting and terrorism" during......
The PPP on Friday submitted nomination papers of Yousuf Raza Gilani for the slot of opposition leader in the Senate.Gilani reached the Parliament House with PPP Senator Sherry Rehman and met Senate......
There has been a paradigm shift in the investment landscape. The old guard of specialist hedge funds and sophisticated long-only asset managers have been humbled by the hordes of retail investors......
COLOMBO: Former Australian Test player Tom Moody on Thursday asked lowly-ranked Sri Lanka to end its culture of merely ‘surviving’ in cricket and vowed to shake up the national team ahead of the next......
KARACHI: It was the sort of game for which Masha United have assembled their team for.Against Karachi United, one of the country’s leading women’s football team; a side whose structure Masha aspire......
PUNE: England captain Eoin Morgan will miss the last two one-day internationals against India, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Thursday.Morgan has been ruled out after sustaining a......
LAHORE: While defending the selection of opener Sharjeel Khan, Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq on Thursday claimed he is taking a well-balanced squad to South Africa and the bunch has the ability ......
TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics torch relay got underway on Thursday after a year’s coronavirus (Covid-19) delay, with officials hoping it will be a ‘ray of light’ after the problems caused by the......
LAKKI MARWAT: Talks between a government team and elders of Janikhel tribe failed despite assurance by Provincial Minister Malik Shah Mohammad Khan about acceptance of demands of the protesting......
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has announced that markets will remain closed on Fridays and Saturdays as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has recorded 14 deaths and 890 Covid-19 cases.“It’s the highest number......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday echoed with remarks about surge in dog-bite cases in the province with one of the treasury members asking the opposition members to jointly approach the......
KARACHI: Two of the three people who were killed along with the young aspiring Waziristan model, Naqeebullah Mehsud, by the then SSP Malir Rao Anwar in a ‘staged’ encounter had been missing since......
LAHORE: Following the reports of persistent surge in the number of Covid-19 deaths and new positive cases in Punjab, the government has imposed smart lockdown in 11 areas of Rawalpindi, Gujranwala......
LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday allowed an application of Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, an under-trial prisoner of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB),......
LAHORE: The two convicts in the motorway gang rape case have filed appeals in the Lahore High Court challenging their death penalties and other sentences handed down by the trial court.An......
LAHORE: As the law-enforcement agencies have already begun laying their hands on sugar ‘mafia’, the Punjab cabinet on Thursday accorded its approval to introduce two new laws to block the way of the......
ISLAMABAD: All stakeholders have appreciated the government for initiating the process to remove Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri from his post.The government has started......
ISLAMABAD: The office of the Auditor General of Pakistan has pointed out Rs1.3 billion irregularities in the financial affairs of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration.According to the......
YANGON: The US and Britain announced sanctions against a huge military-owned conglomerate in Myanmar on Thursday, as security forces continued to launch brutal crackdowns against anti-coup......
WASHINGTON: A 66-year-old Pakistani American, Mohammed Anwar, was killed after two teenage girls assaulted him with a Taser while trying to snatch his car, police said.A 13-year-old from Southeast......
KOLKATA: The populous Indian state of West Bengal has emerged as a key battleground for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, which is looking to extend its national domination and dislodge one of......
CAIRO: The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said on Thursday they faced “extreme difficulty” refloating it as Egypt temporarily closed one of the world’s busiest shipping......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies do not have the necessary parliamentary seats to form a majority coalition, results from this week’s election showed on Thursday,......
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said on Thursday it will be “hard” to meet the May 1 deadline to withdraw all American soldiers from Afghanistan as part of a Taliban deal, but stressed troops are......
DUBAI: Pakistan has hired a group of banks to arrange investor calls ahead of a triple-tranche sale of US dollar-denominated bonds, a document showed on Thursday.Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank,......
LAHORE: The construction work on 21MW Tangir Hydropower Project, meant for providing electricity to the people in various areas during construction phase of Diamer Bhasha Dam, has commenced,......
PARIS: Global production of automobiles tumbled by 16 per cent last year to a level last seen in 2010 as the industry was pummelled by the coronavirus pandemic, an international carmaker association......
KARACHI: Stocks on Thursday extended their bullish stance to the third trading day of the rollover week. The KSE-100 index opened in the positive and early day investors’ exuberance carried it to......
KARACHI: The State Bank on Thursday announced major changes in the low-cost housing scheme to facilitate its outreach by lowering the interest rate to three and five per cent while increasing the......
THE government is seeking to rush through (via presidential ordinances) consequential legislation to meet IMF conditionality. One of these pertains to changes in the Nepra Act that will, among other......
PAKISTAN’S re-entry to the $6bn IMF programme is being touted by both the lender and the government as a demonstration of the authorities’ commitment to critical governance and economic reforms to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the anti-terror military exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) later this year, but no decision has been made to invite Indian troops, a top military......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday extended felicitations to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajed on the 50th anniversary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.In his letter......
QUETTA: The Balochistan cabinet on Thursday approved health insurance facility for 1.8 million families under which they would be able to get treatment in public and private hospitals for up to one......
ISLAMABAD: Behind-the-scenes negotiations are under way in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to resolve differences between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz......
KARACHI: A proposed bill, which the government claims is aimed at making the central bank autonomous, will practically provide immunity to top officials of the State Bank of Pakistan as no......
KARACHI: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood said on Thursday that the Cambridge Assessment International Education would hold O Level exams in Pakistan after May 15, but the A Level exams......
DHAKA: Deadly heatwaves in South Asia are likely to become more common in the future, with the region’s exposure to lethal heat stress potentially nearly tripling if global warming isn’t curbed,......
• Pakistani team returns after holding talks in New Delhi • Both sides reaffirm commitment to resolve issues through discussions under water treatyLAHORE: At the end of two-day hectic talks held in......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday booked eight more major sugar groups and 40 ‘satta-agents’ (speculative pricing manipulators) for “speculative price hike”.The FIA has......
THE government is seeking to rush through (via presidential ordinances) consequential legislation to meet IMF conditionality. One of these pertains to changes in the Nepra Act that will, among other......
ISLAMABAD: With 3,946 new cases reported in a single day, the number of Covid-related deaths in the country surpassed the figure of 14,000 on Thursday.A spokesperson for the Ministry of National......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government suffered a setback on Thursday when the Supreme Court ordered restoration of local government institutions in the province after declaring their dissolution as......
ISLAMABAD: After conceding breach of Pakistan’s financial data integrity, the government has secured approval of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for disbursement of $500......
