Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday that this year would make the 50th anniversary of the "diplomatic relations and exemplary friendship" between Pakistan and the United Arab......
On April 29 this year, by-elections for Karachi’s NA-249 constituency will be held. The seat was won by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) during the 2018 general elections. But it was a slim......
Nasa hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment and make history on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered,......
IN Pakistan, frenzied protests entailing roadblocks and violence have apparently emerged as a new way of communicating with the state. While multiple religiously inspired groups have contributed to......
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood said on Sunday that the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) examinations would take place as per schedule and there would be no delay or......
At least three people were killed and several others, including law enforcers, injured on Sunday as police launched an operation to clear the area around Lahore's Yateem Khana Chowk, where workers of......
KARACHI: Team Karachi’s brilliant performance propelled them to title win in the SSB Stability Pakistan Sindh Karate Championship here on Friday. Sanghar and Larkana got second and third positions......
MUMBAI: Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni marked his 200th game for Chennai Super Kings on Friday with a crushing six-wicket Indian Premier League win over Punjab Kings.Moeen Ali hit 46 off......
DOHA: Qatar is in talks with coronavirus vaccine makers to ensure all fans attending the 2022 World Cup in the country have been vaccinated, the foreign minister said on Friday.The Gulf nation is......
PESHAWAR: After registration of an FIR against Aurat March’s Islamabad organisers on court orders, the city police here on Saturday announced to form a team to look into how to exercise its......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has set aside the action by the federal anti-harassment ombudsperson against an employee of the anti-corruption establishment declaring that only the relevant......
LONDON: West Ham United’s top-four hopes were dealt a big blow as Joe Willock’s late header earned Newcastle United a 3-2 home win in a see-saw clash on Saturday — a result that put the hosts within......
KARACHI: Batting coach Younis Khan on Saturday said that despite their struggles on the South Africa tour, both Haider Ali and Asif Ali should get more opportunities but admitted they should not......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that providing a safe and peaceful environment to the people is the top-most responsibility of the provincial government.In a letter written recently to......
KARACHI: The Steel Town police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two suspects who belonged to the Balochistan police over allegation of stealing vehicles from the metropolis and recovered a stolen......
OKARA: The Gogera police registered a case against a man and his two sons for kidnapping a married woman and taking away cash and valuables from her house at village Jithiana.According to the first......
KARACHI: Expressing concern over the continued surge in Covid-19 cases and slow pace of the vaccination process, health experts have called upon the provincial government to immediately take steps......
MULTAN: An inquiry team constituted on the direction of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to probe the death of a line superintendent of the Multan Electric Power Company......
ISLAMABAD: A personal driver of former federal minister Sartaj Aziz has been missing for the last five days.The Banigala police have registered a kidnapping case on the complaint of the missing man’s......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has rebuked the opposition for hurling threats at government officers and stressed that this illegality would not be tolerated.“The government will not sit silent......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), which was earlier called Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), has changed the permanent status of around 200 employees into......
RAWALPINDI: A brawl occurred between policemen and doctors in the emergency department of Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) on Saturday, halting medical services and creating problems for......
WASHINGTON: Yasar Bashir, a Pakistani-American commander, has been appointed Assistant Chief of Houston Police as head of the family violence department, said an official announcement.Mr Bashir, who......
MANILA: Philippine authorities said on Saturday they have seized some 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25 million in one of the biggest known operations of its kind......
Indianapolis: Half of the eight workers shot to death at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee before he killed himself belonged to the Sikh religious community, leading an advocacy......
LAHORE: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) is allegedly delaying the approval of an agreement meant for accessing its distribution network by a consortium formed to import LNG and supply to......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s twin ports appear to have performed slightly better than regional peers during the last one and half a years amid global Covid-19 lockdowns and disruption of business activities......
KARACHI: The stock market remained sluggish last week, with the benchmark index gaining merely 120 points (0.26 per cent) to close at 45,306 points.The average daily turnover was 368 million shares,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s imports of cellphones swelled by 56.74 per cent to $1.54 billion in the first nine months of 2020-21 compared to $979.965 million over the corresponding period last year.Since......
ISLAMABAD: To master the art of Quran recitation, 21-year-old Hassan Ali Kasi had to follow a strict regime of yoga, hours of rehearsing vocal scales — and a total ban on biryani.His dedication is......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has imposed a smart lockdown across the province for two weeks to slow down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.Addressing a press conference on Saturday,......
On April 29 this year, by-elections for Karachi’s NA-249 constituency will be held. The seat was won by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) during the 2018 general elections. But it was a slim......
FOR four hours this week, all social media platforms in the country were shut down, a measure the government said was necessary ahead of the clampdown on violent TLP supporters on Friday. Successive......
IN Pakistan, frenzied protests entailing roadblocks and violence have apparently emerged as a new way of communicating with the state. While multiple religiously inspired groups have contributed to......
QUETTA: The National Accountability Bureau, Balochistan, after completing investigation into a scam involving millions of rupees in Red Crescent, has filed a reference in an accountability court......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet in its next week’s meeting is set to grant exemption to the Darbar Kartarpur Corridor Project from following the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules,......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) is likely to take up appeals of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the acquittal of newly-appointed Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin in the......
ISLAMABAD: Amid reports that the United Arab Emirates has been mediating between India and Pakistan for reducing fears of a conflict in South Asia for the past few months, Foreign Minister Shah......
LAHORE: Judges of a Lahore High Court (LHC) bench on Saturday finally came up with a split decision on the post-arrest bail petition of Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif,......
• Calls on western govts to outlaw negative comment against Holy Prophet • Confiscation of TLP assets ordered • Fawad terms imposing ban on TLP internal matterISLAMABAD: Western governments should......
ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the government’s economic policies, the opposition parties have termed the latest reshuffle in the cabinet “meaningless”, saying the problem does not lie in the cabinet, but......
LAHORE: The dispute between the state-owned gas companies and sponsors of the two proposed private LNG terminals — Tabeer and Energas — over pipeline capacity allocations for the projects will likely......
LAHORE: As the gulf between the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s estranged leader Jahangir Khan Tareen and his once close friend and PTI chairman Imran Khan widens over the ongoing sugar scam probe,......
• Over 100 people die on fifth consecutive day • 100pc beds allocated for Covid-19 patients in use in SwabiISLAMABAD: While coronavirus-related deaths in the country have surpassed the figure of......
