European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was taken aback to find her fellow top EU official taking the only chair available next to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan when the duo visited......
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a new automated system for the blocking of lost, stolen and snatched mobile phones.Titled ‘Lost & Stolen Device System (LSDS)’, the new......
China sent more fighter jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone on Wednesday in a stepped up show of force around the island which Beijing claims as its own, and Taiwan’s foreign minister said it would......
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan regularly airs his views on subjects ranging from history to religion to moral values. Perhaps Plato’s idea of the ‘philosopher king’ appeals to him as does the impression......
The Awami National Party (ANP) on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of its candidate for the upcoming by-elections in NA-249 Karachi, scheduled for April 29, in favour of PML-N's Miftah Ismail.The......
Former South African captain Shaun Pollock on Wednesday said he believed South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock was guilty of deception in the run-out of Pakistan batsman Fakhar Zaman during the......
Awami National Party (ANP) leader Aimal Wali Khan has held the PML-N and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) responsible for playing a major role in the breakdown of the opposition alliance –......
Dubai will deport a group of people involved in a naked photo shoot on a high-rise balcony in the emirate, authorities said after criticising the incident as out of line with the values of the United......
South Africa won the toss and sent Pakistan in to bat in the decisive third and final one-day international at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday.The match shaped up as a test of South......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday for delegation-level talks on a number of important issues from enhancing......
FIFA on Wednesday suspended the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) with immediate effect due to third-party interference.In a statement, the global body said that third-party inference was a serious......
Former secretary general of the ruling PTI and sugar baron Jahangir Tareen on Wednesday denied that he was parting ways with the party and questioned why his "loyalty is being tested".Speaking to the......
TOKYO: A Tokyo Olympics water polo test event has been postponed, organisers said on Tuesday, following reports it had been called off because sport officials cannot enter Japan due to virus......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will not make public the report of its two-member inquiry committee on departments and people responsible for breach of the SOPs during the Pakistan Super......
Facebook Inc on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the hole after......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday signed an agreement with the State Bank of Pakistan and the 1-Link company for collection of government taxes through alternative delivery......
KARAK: Five people, a passer-by among them, were killed when rival groups clashed over an old enmity in Darshakhel area of Shnawa Guddikhel union council here on Tuesday.Police officials said as a......
KARACHI: Chinese authorities have assured the Sindh government that they would pursue Karachi Circular Railway, Keti Bandar and other projects to officially include them in the China-Pakistan......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed the pre-arrest bail applications of 17 senior officials of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in an inquiry about alleged......
KARACHI: Traders and businessmen took to the streets and staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday after their multiple meetings with the authorities failed to reach an......
One in three Covid-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday laid the Peshawar Development Authority (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, in the provincial assembly seeking blanket immunity for the former director......
RAWALPINDI: A woman, who allegedly threatened and used abusive language against a civil judge, landed in the judicial lockup at Adiala jail after she was arrested on terrorism and other charges while......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has arranged three more flights to transport Pakistani migrants to the United Kingdom before April 9.PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez said the airline......
ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given assurance that it will take all possible steps to strengthen healthcare services in the federal capital.The assurance came at a meeting......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday asked a petitioner to come up with arguments on the maintainability of his petition demanding it to punish Prime Minister Imran Khan for his alleged......
LAHORE: The government on Tuesday stopped the mayor-led local bodies’ representatives from taking charge of their offices and holding a session at the Town Hall after locking the offices and the......
LAHORE: In what appears to be an unprecedented move, 61 station house officers (SHOs) with alleged criminal record have been suspended from service and also removed from their posts across the......
JERUSALEM: Jordan on Tuesday imposed a sweeping gag order on coverage of its palace feud after a recording indicated that authorities tried to silence a former crown prince over his meetings with......
JOFRA Archer might be an aggressive bowler on the field, but the England pacer won hearts with his calm and composed reply to author Taslima Nasreen on Tuesday.Taslima had said that England......
JERUSALEM: A sceptical president invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to form a new government, after another inconclusive election deepened political stalemate in Israel.The......
LAHORE: Wheat harvest has begun in the southern districts of Punjab as temperature has increased enough to mature the crop.However, the formal opening of the reaping season will be done by Chief......
KARACHI: A Russian delegation on Tuesday agreed to submit proposals for the modernisation of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM).The government of St Petersburg’s delegation, led by its adviser Andrey Zubal,......
QUETTA: The Model Customs Collectorate (Appraisement) Quetta surpassed its collection target by 46 per cent to Rs5.4 billion in the first nine months of this fiscal year.Officials said on......
ISLAMABAD: The resurgence of recent infection rates and slow vaccination coupled with high inflation rate and consolidation policies could impact Pakistan’s nascent and fragile economic recovery and......
CENTURION: Just three days after Fakhar Zaman’s incredible innings of 193, South Africa and Pakistan prepare to do battle in the One-day International series decider at the SuperSport Park in......
“NARRATIVES are worthless in a world of misinformation,” tweeted Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund which specialises in blockchain technology and digital......
PRIME MINISTER Imran Khan regularly airs his views on subjects ranging from history to religion to moral values. Perhaps Plato’s idea of the ‘philosopher king’ appeals to him as does the impression......
THIS is one U-turn that has been much needed. On Monday, while presiding over a meeting of his spokespersons in Islamabad, Prime Minister Imran Khan instructed them to refrain from criticising the......
ISLAMABAD: The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) and other rights groups have taken exception to the prime minister’s remarks on the causes of sexual violence and rape, terming it factually incorrect,......
QUETTA: Provincial Education Minister Yar Mohammad Rind has announced that educational institutions will not be closed in Balochistan due to Covid-19.Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senators, who had formed a separate group on the opposition benches, on Tuesday met Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and asked him to treat them as......
ISLAMABAD: Amid the third wave of coronavirus in the country, the government and clerics in a meeting on Tuesday agreed on a number of conditions and guidelines set for prayers’ congregations during......
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani official has expressed concern over the international security environment and asked the Conference on Disarmament, the multilateral negotiating forum on disarmament, to......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday reserved its judgement on a plea against its scrutiny committee’s order to keep the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) financial......
ISLAMABAD: Former judge of the Islamabad High Court Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui on Tuesday again requested the Supreme Court to adjudicate on his plea against the Oct 11, 2018 notification under which he......
ISLAMABAD: Four days after the opposition blocked the government’s move to present a resolution in the National Assembly seeking formation of a parliamentary committee on electoral reforms, Speaker......
ISLAMABAD: Clouds of uncertainty gathered over the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as talk continued to swirl in the capital whether its chairman Javed Ghani would be replaced in a few days or get a......
WELLINGTON: New Zealanders and Australians rushed to book flights on Tuesday as the beleaguered tourism industry welcomed the “lifeline” of a travel bubble between the largely coronavirus-free......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has included an exclusive category in Pakistan Citizen Portal (PCP), being run under his direct supervision, to receive and pursue complaints on land......
EVERY society has its own peculiar and specific cruelties. In the United States, guns proliferate even though it would make sense and save lives to have constraints on gun ownership. In Japan, the......
“NARRATIVES are worthless in a world of misinformation,” tweeted Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund which specialises in blockchain technology and digital......
THIS is one U-turn that has been much needed. On Monday, while presiding over a meeting of his spokespersons in Islamabad, Prime Minister Imran Khan instructed them to refrain from criticising the......
LAHORE: Former secretary general of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and sugar baron Jahangir Tareen, who is facing money laundering and fraud charges in the sugar scam, is said to have been......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday forecast a subdued economic growth rate of 1.5 per cent for Pakistan, coupled with a higher rate of inflation and rising unemployment,......
• NCOC decides to resume matric, intermediate classes from April 19 • Primary, middle schools to remain closed till 28th • Citizens over 70 eligible for single dose inoculationISLAMABAD: Pakistan......
