Chakwal Police claimed on Monday to have arrested a prayer leader and his accomplice for allegedly molesting seminary students and filming the heinous acts for the last three years.The victims......
Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Saad Hussain Rizvi has been detained by security forces in Lahore on Monday, the party leadership confirmed.A senior police official also confirmed to Dawn that......
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said on Monday that the United Kingdom's decision to include Pakistan in the list of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing High-Risk......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Monday that the member parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) were all committed and that she trusted the leadership of PDM chief Maulana Fazlur......
The Central Executive Committee of the PPP has asked all the party members to resign from their positions in the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).Addressing a press conference......
OVER halfway through its tenure the PTI government’s early proclivities seem to be hardening into traits that increasingly characterise its whimsical style of decision-making. At times these have......
Prince Harry, whose explosive interview alongside his wife Meghan plunged the royal family into its biggest crisis in decades, has arrived back in Britain for Prince Philip’s funeral on......
Remittances from Pakistani workers employed abroad exceeded $2 billion for the 10th consecutive month in March at $2.7 billion — up 43 per cent from a year earlier, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)......
Protests erupted against police when an officer fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Sunday about 16 km from where George Floyd was killed during an......
Iran on Monday blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it would take revenge for the......
Dawn columnist and human rights advocate I.A. Rehman passed away in Lahore on Monday at the age of 90.His funeral will be held at Masjid Al Quds A-1 Society Township near LRBT hospital after Isha......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the government is inviting the world's attention towards investment opportunities in Pakistan through economic diplomacy, Radio Pakistan......
JOHANNESBURG: South African cricket’s extended administrative crisis appeared near at an end on Saturday when Cricket South Africa (CSA)’s interim board hailed an agreement on a new governance......
DHAKA: Bangladesh Test captain Mominul Haque on Sunday ruled out any experimenting in the forthcoming Test series in Sri Lanka as they were badly in need of some positive results.The Tigers will......
GILGIT: Prominent scholar and veteran politician Syed Yahya Shah passed away on Sunday. He was 93.He left behind five daughters, a son and a widow to mourn his death.His funeral prayers were held in......
AS the Pakistan-India peace process — or at least the shaky beginnings of the latest round — moves forward, several questions swirl over the direction it will take. Of course, in a relationship as......
BAJAUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl activists here on Sunday held a protest march and blocked the main Khar-Peshawar road against the authorities’ failure to arrest killers of their two leaders Maulana......
KARACHI: A tech-based initiative of the Sindh police in collaboration with the Citizens-Police Liasion Committee (CPLC) and a non-government poverty alleviation organisation is emerging as a fresh......
KARACHI: Armed robbers broke open over 30 lockers of a private bank in North Nazimabad and walked off with cash and jewellery in the small hours of Sunday, officials said.They said that the robbers......
PESHAWAR: The two-day a week lockdown, re-imposed by the provincial government three weeks ago, is yet to make any impact regarding reduction in Covid-19 cases and mortalities as 33 more people have......
PESHAWAR: The faculty members of University of Agriculture Dera Ismail Khan have been getting salaries less than the minimum wage fixed by the provincial government for the unskilled labour in the......
RAWALPINDI: The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s audit team has proposed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to postpone its scheduled visit in the summer to Pakistan due to a surge......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced its financial results for 2020 as it submitted audited accounts with the Stock Exchange of Pakistan, claiming that it had reduced its......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) misstated before the Supreme Court about the illegal construction of courts on the premises of the sessions courts Islamabad.This was disclosed in a......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif says Daska by-poll result is an evidence that people are siding with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.“You’ve proved that bullying,......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has accused the Daska NA-175 returning officer (RO) of making all out efforts to help the PML-N candidate win the by-election in the constituency “by converting......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Sunday launched a ‘Mobile Lungar’ scheme in two major cities of the province -- Lahore and Faisalabad -- in line with Prime Minister’s Ehsaas programme’s “Koee Bhooka......
LAHORE: Health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid says the health department is witnessing an alarming rise in the number of critically-ill patients and sudden rise of admissions to the ICUs.Chairing a......
With the tech ecosystem getting more mature around the world, one of its underlying features has been the way big businesses have embraced and promoted this growth.Be it the eye-watering acquisitions......
The federal government accumulated about Rs1.5 trillion worth of fresh domestic debt in the first eight months of this fiscal year.The stock of debt swelled from Rs23.28tr in June 2020 to Rs24.78tr......
Members of the reconstituted Economic Advisory Council (EAC) are confident. They believe the road ahead may be arduous but reaching the destination is possible if a road map is developed with care......
By all means, this is perhaps one of the steepest fiscal adjustments that Pakistan has ever agreed to undertake in its history.Recovering from the negative economic performance, first time after......
YANGON: Russia and China are frustrating the international response to the Myanmar crisis, a top European Union diplomat said on Sunday, as the death toll from a military crackdown climbed past......
WASHINGTON: The Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged negative trends across the globe — stirring nationalist sentiments and skepticism while stalling progress in poverty reduction and gender inequality,......
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday banned the export of anti-viral drug Remdesivir and its active pharmaceutical ingredients as demand rocketed due to a record surge in Covid-19 infections, leading to a......
OVER halfway through its tenure the PTI government’s early proclivities seem to be hardening into traits that increasingly characterise its whimsical style of decision-making. At times these have......
STUDENTS from the merged districts (erstwhile Fata) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ended their month-long sit-in outside Governor House in Lahore when the governor finally met them a day after students on......
AS the Pakistan-India peace process — or at least the shaky beginnings of the latest round — moves forward, several questions swirl over the direction it will take. Of course, in a relationship as......
QUETTA: The participants of a roundtable conference have suggested that the local bodies network be strengthened by allocation of substantial development funds so that they could execute schemes for......
ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Elections Network (Fafen) on Sunday stated that NA-75 Sialkot-IV (Daska) by-election witnessed low incidences of electoral violation as procedures were generally......
• 5,050 more people contract virus • PMA seeks walk-in vaccination facility, special service for bedridden, handicappedISLAMABAD: While the country reported the highest number of single-day deaths......
ISLAMABAD: One month after emergence of the new Senate, political parties having representation in the upper house of parliament are now eyeing chairmanship of key committees as negotiations between......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday arrived in Berlin, Germany, along with members of his delegation on a two-day official visit.Upon arrival at the airport, the......
LAST week the alleys of Lahore’s Sikandriya colony witnessed a mass murder: a man identified as Rana Bilal first shot his elder brother and then turned his gun on his sister-in-law. When his mother......
• Region may be given Punjab’s 32pc govt job quota • Five devolved departments to be run from LahoreLAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has given the nod to a plan envisaging development of south......
KARACHI: The fate of opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement hangs in the balance as Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday tore apart the show-cause notice issued to it by......
