US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognised the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied......
A consumer court in Karachi has ordered Qatar Airways to pay Rs550,000 as compensation to a passenger for providing "faulty services".Judge Mukesh Kumar Talreja of the Consumer Protection Court......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Saturday that she would not criticise the PPP beyond a certain limit, adding that she had a "good relationship" with party chairman Bilawal......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Friday that Pakistan and India were not engaged in any "peace talks" and the United Arab Emirates was not facilitating anything.In an interview with TRT......
Indonesia’s navy on Saturday said items were found from a missing submarine, indicating the vessel with 53 crew members had sunk and there was no hope of finding survivors.Navy Chief Yudo Margono......
AFTER nearly seven months in jail, PML-N president and leader of the opposition Shehbaz Sharif has been released on bail. As he is welcomed home, the days ahead will bring an enormous challenge both......
Politicians, journalists and citizens across Pakistan expressed support and offered prayers for people in India where the second wave of the pandemic has taken a heavy a toll on the public as the......
India's daily coronavirus death toll passed a new record on Saturday as the government battled to get oxygen supplies to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases.Queues......
TOKYO: Only three months before the postponed Olympics are set to open, Tokyo and Japan’s second largest metropolitan area of Osaka have been placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging......
PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne led his side’s bid to match Bangladesh’s mammoth score on a third day of batting domination in the first Test between the two nations here at the......
CAPE TOWN: Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa has turned up the heat on Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) embattled Members Council after stripping them of the right to run the game, putting the country’s......
LEICESTER: Red-hot striker Kelechi Iheanacho scored an 11th goal in his last eight games in all competitions as Leicester City tightened their grip on a Champions League spot poured more misery on......
CHITRAL: Eidul Fitr and the Chilimjusht spring festival of the Kalash tribe are likely to fall on the same day next month after more than three decades, which is set to attract an unprecedented......
PESHAWAR: Special assistant to the prime minister on tourism Zulfiqar Bukhari on Friday said the ‘Gandhara Trail’ initiative would be completed by 2022 in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran......
LAHORE: Former Test captain Intikhab Alam has expressed his surprise over the shocking 19-run defeat of Pakistan at the hands of a much weaker Zimbabwe in the second T20I in Harare and has urged the......
SWAT: There was a time when militants in Swat district restricted women to their houses and banned them from formal education.However, after the security forces eliminated militancy, many local women......
PESHAWAR: The treasury and opposition members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday asked the provincial government to restore the erstwhile Provincially Administered Tribal Areas’ Provincial......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Friday that the needy madressah students were not given any financial assistance from the zakat fund due to want of a no-objection certificate (NOC) from......
KARACHI: Friday, the first day of the hot spell recently forecast by the Meteorological department saw dry, warm winds blowing across the metropolis for the most part of the day, raising the city’s......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Pakistan (PTI) estranged leader Jahangir Khan Tareen’s MNA Raja Riaz and provincial minister Ajmal Cheema called on Governor Chaudhry Sarwar on Friday and expressed their......
GUJRAT: The centuries-old Patwar system has, once again, been revived by the PTI government in Punjab through posting of land revenue officials at the recently launched the Dehi Marakaz-i-Maal (rural......
ISLAMABAD: Illegal construction in Islamabad should be regularised as this will promote ease of doing business, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority (CDA) affairs......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 50 workers and activists of the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were shifted to Jhelum from Adiala jail on Friday.According to sources, police have arrested 176......
RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan introduced a stricter travel ban on 23 countries amid the rising Covid-19 cases involving new variants, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) further extended travel restrictions......
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday that the United States intended to recognise the 1915 killings of Armenians during Ottoman rule as genocide, a......
CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit on Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musks rapidly expanding company.The......
JAKARTA: Southeast Asian leaders will try to persuade Myanmar’s junta to end violence and let in aid at a summit on Saturday, diplomats said, in the first concerted international effort to ease the......
LAHORE: By Thursday, the food department had procured 855,934 tonnes of wheat — 21.29 per cent of its target of 3.5 million tonnes — and distributed gunny bags for around 1.8 million tonnes.According......
KARACHI: The bearish spell entered its third day on the stock market on Friday amid intensified selling pressure ahead of an NCOC meeting which later in the day announced measures to check the spread......
ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation for the combined group in the period ended on April 22 slightly fell by 0.40 per cent on the back of a decline in prices of essential food items, data released by the......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin said on Friday that continued support of the World Bank (WB) as a major development partner was critical to attaining fiscal......
LAHORE: The recent acquisition of the three bankrupt publicly-listed textile companies by private investors with the confirmed intention of merging their unlisted businesses into them underlines the......
RAWALPINDI: Saudis living in Pakistan and four other Asian countries have been advised to return home “as soon as possible” since no flights would be available from these countries even if Riyadh......
QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove has said that the government is taking strict action against the elements involved in drug trade and 144 suspected traffickers have been......
LAHORE: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Friday walked free from Kot Lakhpat jail seven months after he was arrested in money laundering and......
AFTER nearly seven months in jail, PML-N president and leader of the opposition Shehbaz Sharif has been released on bail. As he is welcomed home, the days ahead will bring an enormous challenge both......
BREAKING away from the country’s low and declining growth trajectory calls for deep-rooted structural reforms. Realising this, the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics with consultation from......
THE suicide attack in Quetta this week is a rude reminder that terror still stalks the land. With America planning to withdraw from Afghanistan by September this year, there are genuine fears that......
ISLAMABAD: Politicisation of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) could have serious implications for future disarmament efforts, warned a Pakistani diplomat at a webinar on the convention hosted by......
QUETTA: Parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the Balochistan Assembly Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has threatened to resign from the post of special assistant to the prime......
MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday he was ending a 24-day hunger strike he launched to demand medical treatment behind bars, after allies said his life was in danger.The......
KARACHI: The country posted a current account deficit of $47 million in March for the fourth month in a row, but the first nine months of FY21 remained in surplus territory, raising hopes the fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly session was prorogued on Friday soon after its commencement when the opposition and some treasury members, in a rare show of unity, staged a joint demonstration in......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday awarded six petroleum exploration blocks in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab to state-run oil and gas exploration and development companies.The exploration licences......
• Accountability court seeks compliance report from authorities • Objection petitions filed against some attached propertiesISLAMABAD: The accountability court has directed the Securities and......
BREAKING away from the country’s low and declining growth trajectory calls for deep-rooted structural reforms. Realising this, the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics with consultation from......
