British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure on Saturday to fire his health secretary after the admission that he broke Covid-19 guidelines by kissing an employee sparked......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged Pakistani filmmakers to focus on original content and adopt new approaches in filmmaking.Addressing the prize distribution ceremony of the National Amateur......
A highly awaited US intelligence report on dozens of mysterious unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings said most could not be explained, but did not rule out that some could be alien......
NEARLY two years after he scrapped the special constitutional status of held Kashmir and effectively locked down the disputed region, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called a ‘surprise’ meeting......
Former caretaker prime minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso passed away in Quetta after a prolonged illness on Saturday. He was 95.His son, Amjad Hussain, told Dawn.com that the retired judge......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday questioned the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) decision to continue to keep Pakistan on the watchdog's "increased monitoring list", also known......
ABBOTTABAD: The provincial director of archaeology and museums, Abdus Samad, has urged the district police officer, Abbottabad, to file an FIR against the cantonment’s executive officer for......
GILGIT: Over 1,260 undergraduate students of various disciplines of the Karakoram International University (KIU) have been awarded scholarships under the Ehsaas Scholarship Programme, taking the......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the quarters concerned to adopt a realistic approach for providing scholarships to the students under the Frontier Education Foundation......
ISLAMABAD: UN human rights experts on Friday urged Pakistan to stop evicting close to 100,000 people living along two of Karachi’s narrow watercourses — Gujjar nullah and Orangi nullah.“These actions......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday quickly passed the Rs1.47 trillion tax-free budget for financial year 2021-22 with a majority vote amid opposition protest as neither the leader of the house and......
KARACHI: Three railways policemen were slightly injured while 20 residential units were razed to the ground during an anti-encroachment drive when residents put up stiff resistance against the......
LOS ANGELES: A former Chicago businessman will remain in the United States as a federal judge in Los Angeles weighs whether he will be extradited to India for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai......
MINNEAPOLIS: A Minnesota judge sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22 years and six months in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May last year on a......
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his former political foe, Abdullah Abdullah, on Friday to discuss Washington’s support for Afghanistan as the last US troops......
LONDON: Men’s defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will face British teenage wildcard Jack Draper in his opening match but Simona Halep, the women’s winner at the last championships in 2019,......
SYDNEY: Australia and Israel, which had been successful in fending off Covid-19, reimposed restrictions on Friday as cases surged of the highly contagious Delta variant, which is also threatening......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced the Team of HBL Pakistan Super League 6, which includes three players each from Islamabad United and Multan Sultans, two each from Lahore......
LONDON: Italy’s unbeaten streak won’t last forever, and Austria coach Franco Foda is plotting to be the one to stop it.The Italians have become one of the favourites at the European Championship......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Seven people of Pirmahal village Chak 760-GB badly beat publicly on Friday a private schoolteacher of Sindhillianwali for insulting a sixth-grade student for his failure to do......
SAHIWAL: A pregnant woman was shot dead by the family of her former husband over remarriage with the man of a rival tribe 18 months after her divorce at Thattapur Bhana on Friday.Zohrain Bibi, 30, of......
MUMBAI: Indian police said on Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 — some of them disabled — may have suffered the same fate in......
KARACHI: Andy Flower is generally a phlegmatic character but even the former Zimbabwe cricket star couldn’t stop himself feeling over the moon after Multan Sultans clinched their maiden HBL Pakistan......
LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have expanded the scope of investigation into the Johar Town blast and suggested placing the provincial capital and Islamabad on high alert after initial......
LAHORE: In a day-long operation launched early Friday morning, the teams of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and police retrieved 15 kanals by demolishing 195 shops constructed illegally......
RAWALPINDI: Heavy rain lashed the twin cities on Friday evening, inundating low-lying areas.Temperature had remained above 40°C for the last few days and the rain brought the mercury down to 36......
NEW DELHI: India’s information technology minister on Friday accused Twitter of briefly blocking his account because of criticisms he made of the US firm in a standoff over new social media......
ISLAMABAD: The board of governors (BoG) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) on Friday showed its ‘satisfaction’ over the university administration’s handling of an alleged rape......
SURFSIDE: The Florida apartment building that collapsed in the middle of the night on Wednesday was undergoing construction work ahead of a safety review, and was built on a site known to have......
KARACHI: The country’s fertiliser sector relating to urea and DAP sales posted impressive growth in May, but urea inventory levels of these products remained in negative territory during January-May......
KARACHI: The country’s exports are facing a daily loss of $44 million due to the suspension of gas supply to export-oriented units by the Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGCL) since June 11, the......
QUETTA: A strike was observed in Quetta and some other towns and cities of Balochistan on Friday on the call of opposition parties against the government for allegedly ignoring the constituencies of......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Friday said that Kashmiri leaders who went to New Delhi and shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with Narendra Modi and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy will participate in the upcoming naval exercise ‘Sea Breeze 2021 (SB21)’ as an observer.The exercise, being held from June 28 to July 10 in the Black Sea region, is being......
KARACHI: Exports of telecommunications, computer and information services increased by almost 48 per cent to $1.908 billion during first 11 months of this fiscal year compared to $1.29bn in 11MFY20,......
KARACHI: The country witnessed the sixth consecutive current account deficit (CAD) of $632 million in May, leaving a meagre $153m surplus in the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year (11MFY21),......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the international community to take serious note of the recent illegal uranium sale in Indian black market, raising the concern that such radioactive......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) is set to develop and declare e-commerce policy guidelines to build consumer confidence in the online marketplace and encourage fair trade......
KARACHI: In a surprise move, global index provider MSCI is weighing options to demote Pakistan back to Frontier Markets (FM) from Emerging markets (EM).An MSCI document released on Friday said that......
ISLAMABAD: Terming the federal budget a step forward towards the country’s transformation into the state of Madina, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday said the government had rejected the......
BEIJING: At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to the local government.Local media......
JERUSALEM: Bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said on Thursday, claiming to have shed new light on human......
PARIS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday Washington was assessing whether the Taliban were serious about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, and that trying to take back the country......
THE conference of Kashmiri parties convened by the Indian government in New Delhi on June 24, 2021, proves once again that Kashmiris cannot be crushed into obedience. Jawaharlal Nehru imprisoned......
ISLAMABAD: Social media giant Facebook is expanding its women-empowerment focused initiative ‘SheMeansBusiness’ to bolster financial inclusion and resilience of women-led businesses in Pakistan.The......
A GREAT deal of controversy surrounds the Single National Curriculum (SNC), a project highly espoused by the PTI government and proudly owned by the prime minister himself. The government plans to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with pro-India political leaders from occupied Kashmir as a futile public relations exercise that failed to......
NEARLY two years after he scrapped the special constitutional status of held Kashmir and effectively locked down the disputed region, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called a ‘surprise’ meeting......
• Asks people to observe SOPs, get vaccinated • Citizens travelling abroad will get Pfizer vaccine • 44 die, over 1,000 test positive in single dayISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed the federal government to take steps for the recovery of illegal profits the oil marketing companies (OMCs) made by creating an artificial......
WASHINGTON: The US decision to fix a date for withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan also diminished Pakistan’s leverage on the Taliban, says Prime Minister Imran Khan.In an interview to two senior......
IT has been 11 years since Pakistan ratified the UN Convention Against Torture, over five since the National Action Plan on Human Rights was developed, four since it committed to enacting legislation......
A GREAT deal of controversy surrounds the Single National Curriculum (SNC), a project highly espoused by the PTI government and proudly owned by the prime minister himself. The government plans to......
