Left-arm spinner Nauman Ali took five wickets as Pakistan closed in on victory by an innings having reduced hosts Zimbabwe to 220 for nine at the close on the third day of the second and final Test......
Gadap Town police on Sunday launched an investigation against the security staff of Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) for alleged rioting, kidnapping and injuring villagers, and detained more than a dozen......
Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the debris......
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry wondered on Sunday how the government could trust PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif's guarantee to return to the country when he hadn't......
The variant from India is perhaps the most contagious coronavirus mutation on the planet, according to Tom Wenseleers, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Leuven in Belgium.Wenseleers was......
The death toll from bombs planted outside a girls' school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by Shia Hazaras rose to 50 on Sunday as the Taliban denied government accusations that......
Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque on the......
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur are facing another season out of the Champions League after losing at Leeds United two years to the day after reaching the final of Europe’s elite competition.Being beaten......
MONTMELO: Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton became the first Formula One driver to take 100 pole positions after lapping fastest in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.The 36-year-old......
PESHAWAR: The health department has planned to include liver transplants in the Sehat Sahulat Programme for patients with hepatic failure.A summary for the purpose has already been sent to the chief......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi on Saturday said the foreign players’ refusal to come to Pakistan to play the remaining 20 matches of the HBL Pakistan Super League-6 amid a......
HARARE: Pakistan took total control on the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday, outclassing the home side with both bat and ball to take a big step......
PESHAWAR: A fact-finding inquiry has cleared former adviser to the chief minister on information and public relations Ajmal Wazir of the charge of receiving kickbacks for the release of government......
DADU: Protest rallies, demonstrations and shutter-down strike were held in many big and small cities and towns of the interior of Sindh on Saturday on a call given by the Sindh United Party (SUP) and......
KARACHI: An eyewitness on Saturday identified a suspect as an accused involved in the murder of four TikTokers in Karachi.The victims — Muskan Sheikh, Amir Khan, Rehan Shah and Saddam Hussain — were......
KARACHI: The Sindh government is set to take a major leap in the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive by opening a massive facility at the Expo Centre on Sunday (today), said to be the......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to allow plying of public transport between districts till 6pm on Monday (tomorrow).The public transport will be completely banned from May 10 6pm onward......
ISLAMABAD: The role of sessions judges is being probed in connection with a multimillion rupees cash scam in the district courts of the federal capital, an audit report of Islamabad High Court (IHC)......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICTA) Administration has recruited two transgender persons in its office on daily wages.Lubna and Nadra were allowed to work as semi-skilled worker in......
LAHORE: In its detailed verdict on the post-arrest bail petition of Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif in a money laundering reference, a Lahore High Court full bench has......
RAWALPINDI: As per the directives of the government to impose Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs), all shops and markets were closed for a week on Saturday.Traders in Raja Bazaar and......
ROME: The fossil remains of nine Neanderthal men have been found in a cave in Italy, the culture ministry announced on Saturday, a major discovery in the study of our ancient cousins.All the......
MALE: Maldives police said on Saturday that “religious extremists” staged the attempt to assassinate former president Mohamed Nasheed, who has been taken off life support in hospital.They said two......
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta declared on Saturday night that a group of ousted lawmakers running a shadow government would now be classified as “terrorists”, as the military moves to tighten its grip......
GLASGOW: Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon vowed on Saturday to press ahead with plans for a new referendum on leaving the United Kingdom after saying there was no doubt elections to the......
HYDERABAD: Mango lovers will have to wait for another 20 days to eat fully nourished mangoes especially sindhri or anwar ratol. The tasty and fully grown sindhri or chaunsa varieties would be......
KARACHI: Branded manufacturers have dropped a price bomb on consumers — already struggling to survive under high prices of chicken, mutton, beef, wheat flour, sugar, etc — by raising rates of bread......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) made strong recovery in the shortened (four-session) outgoing week with the KSE-100 index up by 912 points, or 1.3 per cent, to settle at 45,175.After......
ISLAMABAD: The export of services posted a growth of 31.72 per cent year-on-year to $563.95 million in March, showed data compiled by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.After having contracted in the......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cement producers plan to expand their capacity by more than 40 per cent from nearly 69 million tonnes to nearly 99m tonnes over the next several years in anticipation of 10-15pc......
KARACHI: The non-performing loans (NPLs) of all banks significantly increased by Rs22 billion in the first quarter of the calendar year 2021 to Rs866bn, while the recovery remained less than half of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday continued attacks on the economic policies of the PTI government and said the only thing Prime Minister Imran Khan......
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) completed recounting of votes cast at the 276 polling stations of the NA-249 constituency on Saturday — the third consecutive day of the exercise —......
The April 29 by-elections for Karachi’s multi-ethnic NA-249 constituency threw up a surprise.In the 2018 elections, this seat had been narrowly won by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). Indeed, the......
ALL over the world the pandemic has hit the poor more than anyone else. Especially those who have no homes or who live under the threat of evictions in informal settlements where no piped water or......
Violent protests by the now-banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan once again put the police in the direct line of attack, resulting in hundreds of casualties in the service. Police complain that their......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have agreed to give strategic direction to their ties through the Saudi-Pakistan Supreme Coordination Council (SP-SCC) by strengthening and diversifying existing......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday expressed serious concern over illegal possession of a large quantity of uranium by two unauthorised persons in India and pointed to gaps in state control mechanisms......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has reiterated that pre-arrest bail in a cognisable or non-bailable offence is an extraordinary remedy, extended for the sole purpose of protecting reputation and honour......
LAHORE: Citing ‘procedural hiccups’, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday stopped opposition leader and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif from leaving the country for London, causing a......
• Joint statement also urges Afghan parties to realise historic opportunity for political settlement • PM, Saudi crown prince back political solutions to conflicts in Libya, Syria, YemenISLAMABAD:......
• ECP authorised to seek technical help to enable overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes • Govt confident of securing parliamentary nod to ordinance within 120 days • ECP warns of serious......
The April 29 by-elections for Karachi’s multi-ethnic NA-249 constituency threw up a surprise.In the 2018 elections, this seat had been narrowly won by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). Indeed, the......
JUSTICE Faez Isa has won. His review petition challenging the directions given to the FBR to probe his family by the full bench of the Supreme Court has been accepted. It is a “triumph for the rule......
ALL over the world the pandemic has hit the poor more than anyone else. Especially those who have no homes or who live under the threat of evictions in informal settlements where no piped water or......
