Karachi police on Saturday claimed to have detained three suspects over charges of killing the director of a private academic institute on main Stadium Road a day earlier.“Police arrested three......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday lashed out at the federal government for the budget it presented a day earlier, and said that record unemployment and inflation had shown the real face......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday received a telephone call from his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, according to the Foreign Office (FO).In a statement, the FO......
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Saturday that the federal budget for fiscal year 2021-22 was "growth-oriented" and the real challenge for the government was to achieve inclusive growth for......
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it will allow 60,000 vaccinated residents of the kingdom to perform the annual Haj, state media reported.The Haj ministry said this year's pilgrimage would be “open......
Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime.The......
THE PTI wants to buy its way out of trouble. Who will pay the price?The federal budget 2021-22 presented by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday is the documented evidence of this political......
WE have all been waiting for the story of information technology in Pakistan to unfold and show its true potential but short-lived plans and senseless bans seem to hold it back.Log on to Twitter and......
KARACHI: Veteran stalwart Shoaib Malik reasoned poor bowling at death contributed to Peshawar Zalmi’s 10-run loss against Lahore Qalandars during their engrossing HBL Pakistan Super League 6......
BIRMINGHAM: Devon Conway and Will Young scored half-centuries as New Zealand finished the second day on 229-3, 74 runs behind England’s first innings score in the second and final Test against at......
PESHAWAR: As landmines are taking a toll on the lives of civilians, especially children and the personnel of law-enforcement agencies, large swathes of land in parts of the militancy-hit tribal......
GROS ISLET (St Lucia): Former captain Quinton de Kock pushed South Africa’s lead past 100 against West Indies in the first Test on Friday.De Kock was 44 not out at lunch on the second day and South......
PARIS: Stefanos Tsitsipas went from way ahead to suddenly stuck in a five-set struggle against Alexander Zverev at the French Open on Friday before emerging to earn his first berth in a Grand Slam......
ISLAMABAD: Praising Pakistan for almost eradicating polio, Unicef Regional Director George Laryea-Adjei said there are still hundreds of thousands of “invisible children” who are susceptible and must......
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC)’s budget saw an increase of around Rs15 billion compared to the outgoing year’s allocation as the federal government earmarked Rs108 billion for......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday joined the protesting government employees to express solidarity with them outside Parliament House and lashed out......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to inaugurate the country’s first national emergency helpline – 911-- on July 25.It is said to be a tentative deadline to inaugurate the multi-billion......
LAHORE: The federal government has done too little, too late in terms of creating fiscal space for the agriculture sector in its overhyped budget for financial year 2021-22, says Ahmad Jawad,......
LAHORE: Estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader and sugar baron Jahangir Khan Tareen finally got a ‘relief’ amid the federal budget presentation as the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) did not......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Chest Society (PCS) — a representative body of chest physicians — has demanded increased taxes on cigarettes.“The total cost attributable to all smoking-related diseases and......
SUKKUR: Activists of Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) took out rallies in Kandhkot and Jacobabad on Friday in protest against razing of old villages and occupation on their lands by Bahria Town Karachi and......
KARACHI: The 3rd Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) an initiative of the Karachi Film Society (KFS) began at Frere Hall on Friday evening. This year’s event is called Women’s Edition 2021......
KARACHI: While the demand for Pfizer vaccine is building up across the country, authorities in Sindh are yet to start its administration, sources told Dawn.They said this particular Covid-19 vaccine......
NEW YORK: Iran regained its vote in the UN General Assembly on Friday after the United States enabled Tehran to use funds frozen in South Korea to pay some $16 million it owed to the world body.Iran......
LONDON: Britain’s main doctors’ union has joined calls for the next planned lockdown easing in England to be delayed, as figures on Friday showed new Covid cases across the UK running at their......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday proposed to allocate Rs1.37 trillion for defence services in the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22, marking an increase of 6.2 per cent.The proposed increase in......
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin has refused to rule out the possibility of launching airstrikes to prevent the Taliban from taking over Kabul after the withdrawal, but acknowledged......
WASHINGTON: Prosecutors in the US Justice Department under former president Donald Trump seized data from Apple about two Democratic lawmakers on the House intelligence committee, as well as that of......
BEIJING: Beijing’s top diplomat on Friday condemned Washington’s “small circle” diplomacy, state media reported, in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as G7 leaders met for their......
ENNISKILLEN: Britain on Friday hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron’s uncompromising stance on Brexit, in a simmering row over new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.Macron warned......
CARBIS BAY: Leaders of the G7 countries opened their first in-person talks in nearly two years on Friday, with an expected pledge to donate one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries on the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has allocated Rs3.060 trillion for debt servicing (including interest payments) in the next fiscal year 2021-22.During the current fiscal year, Rs2.94tr had been earmarked......
ISLAMABAD: Allocation for subsidies has been increased by a staggering 225 per cent in the upcoming fiscal year with the bulk of it going to the energy sector, including Rs136 billion in terms of......
CONGRESSWOMAN Ilhan Omar’s comparison of Hamas and the Afghan Taliban with the US and Israel has raised a media storm in her home country. The Muslim lawmaker of Somali origin has been lambasted not......
QUETTA: Opposition parties in Balochistan have threatened to launch a protest movement against the provincial government if the development schemes proposed by them are not made part of the upcoming......
KARACHI: Colin Munro produced a stunning display of hitting as Islamabad mauled Quetta Gladiators by a clinical margin of 10 wickets in their HBL Pakistan Super League 6 encounter at the Sheikh Zayed......
DUBAI: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Friday disclosed that an incident, similar to what former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had faced, had happened but prompt action was......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday met Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and conveyed to him the party’s concerns over the government’s decision to introduce......
KARACHI: President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Nasser Hyatt Magoo said on Friday the national budget was mostly in line with the recommendations put......
ISLAMABAD: The ‘woo-the-voter’ budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 reflects government’s frustration with the International Monetary Fund-mandated harsh economic policies and its desperation to give......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday proposed to allocate Rs1.37 trillion for defence services in the budget for the fiscal year 2021-22, marking an increase of 6.2 per cent.The proposed increase in......
• Interest-free loans for starting businesses and farm inputs • Ehsaas cash transfers allocation increased • Capital Gains Tax on stocks slashed • Universal health coverage through Sehat cards •......
WE have all been waiting for the story of information technology in Pakistan to unfold and show its true potential but short-lived plans and senseless bans seem to hold it back.Log on to Twitter and......
CONGRESSWOMAN Ilhan Omar’s comparison of Hamas and the Afghan Taliban with the US and Israel has raised a media storm in her home country. The Muslim lawmaker of Somali origin has been lambasted not......
THE PTI wants to buy its way out of trouble. Who will pay the price?The federal budget 2021-22 presented by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday is the documented evidence of this political......
ISLAMABAD: The ‘woo-the-voter’ budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 reflects government’s frustration with the International Monetary Fund-mandated harsh economic policies and its desperation to give......
• Interest-free loans for starting businesses and farm inputs • Ehsaas cash transfers allocation increased • Capital Gains Tax on stocks slashed • Universal health coverage through Sehat cards •......
