The top diplomats of India and the United States pledged on Wednesday to expand their multilateral security partnership, underscoring the deepening of ties between the two countries concerned over......
Rain has delayed the start of the first T20 International of the rescheduled four-match series between the West Indies and Pakistan at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Wednesday.Pakistan captain Babar......
A six-year-old girl who went missing in Karachi's Korangi area was found murdered after being subjected to rape, officials said on Wednesday.The child's body was found from a garbage dump in......
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested PTI MPA Nazir Chohan in Lahore on Wednesday in a case registered by the prime minister's aide, Shahzad Akbar.The FIA transferred Chohan to its office......
AS the security situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, the prospect of foreign militants relocating there from conflict zones elsewhere is becoming more likely. That development is......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim as his special assistant on Sindh affairs, a notification issued by the Cabinet Division said.Rahim had......
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday called the US “stubborn” in stalled nuclear talks in Vienna for discussing Tehran’s missiles and regional influence, likely signalling challenges ahead in efforts......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has tested positive for the coronavirus, the party's Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Wednesday.She has quarantined herself after the test result,......
China told a visiting Taliban delegation on Wednesday it expected the insurgent group to play an important role in ending Afghanistan's war and rebuilding the country, the Chinese foreign ministry......
I DID not know Noor Mukaddam personally, but I am related to her family and thus to their suffering. But one does not have to know Noor or be related to her to be utterly gutted and devastated by her......
We’re on the cusp of yet another T20I series, and yet again we don’t know what surprises Pakistan cricket has in store for us. This team and its schemers’ long history of shunning logic and embracing......
A local court in Islamabad on Wednesday extended the physical remand of Zahir Zakir Jaffer, the key suspect in Noor Mukadam murder case, for three more days.The suspect was initially sent on a......
A week after the gruesome murder of Noor Mukadam in Islamabad — an incident that has sparked national outcry over violence against women in Pakistan — the Jaffer family has issued a statement......
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud has assured Pakistan of Saudi Arabia's "unflinching support" and appreciated its "efforts for promoting peace and stability in the region",......
The Foreign Office (FO) has rubbished Indian media's claims that Pakistan's Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status was being withdrawn, calling such reports "fabricated" and a......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the United States "really messed it up in Afghanistan" as he questioned the American motive of Afghan invasion in the first place and then their subsequent......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday restored the terrorism charges against policemen allegedly involved in killing of Osama Satti and referred the case to the Anti Terrorism Court......
RAWALPINDI: Police on Tuesday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 14-month-old boy and his mother three days ago.They also said the suspect had confessed to the crime during......
TOKYO: Simone Biles’ bid to launch a history-making goldrush at the Tokyo Olympics fell apart after a single vault on Tuesday when the gymnast superstar pulled out of the team event, and her American......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Tuesday showed its concern about the environmental impacts from the cargo ship which ran aground on the beach in Karachi amid bad weather last week.National......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has alleged that the Inter-provincial Ministry (IPC), headed by Fehmida Mirza, and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) are mainly responsible for the......
TOKYO: Pakistan’s Mahoor Shahzad exited the women’s singles badminton tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday while her countryman Haseeb Tariq finished 62nd out of 70 competitors in the heats......
SWABI: A teenage boy died when a pistol he held to his head went off accidentally while filming a video for social media platform TikTok here on Tuesday, the police said.Kalu Khan SHO Fayaz Khan said......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started giving incentives to the doctors recruited under Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 to strengthen institution-based practice in......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A married woman was killed by her alleged rapists on Tuesday in Rajana’s Katchi Basti.Reports said on June 16, nine people kidnapped a married woman and three of them allegedly......
KARACHI: As all educational institutions were closed this week due to spread of the Delta variant, Syeda Anfas Ali Shah Zaidi of Ocean Welfare Trust, which runs the free-of-cost Footpath School in......
SUKKUR: Sukkur police launched what they called a “grand operation” near Sangi and Dubbar areas of Pannu Aqil town late on Monday night after two heavily armed groups — one belonging to the Jatoi......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court dismissed on Tuesday a petition seeking post-arrest bail for veteran leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, in a case pertaining to accumulation......
KARACHI: Health experts and medical scientists have warned that the hepatitis B and C viral infections are a “pandemic within a pandemic”, which are claiming three to four times more lives in......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has told a court that one of his friends had told him that someone known to him and also the Sharif family had approached him with an offer to pay billions of rupees......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has upgraded the Institute of Child Health (ICH), Lahore, to University of Child Health Sciences, the first one in public sector all over the country.Located in the......
KARACHI: In view of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the province, particularly in Karachi, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday constituted a committee to sensitise all the stakeholders —......
KHAR: Polio workers on Tuesday held a demonstration against non-payment of their dues and warned that they would not to take part in the upcoming anti-polio drive if their dues were not cleared by......
QUETTA: Taliban, who captured the Afghan border district of Spin Boldak early this month, on Tuesday imposed new tariff and started collecting taxes on goods coming into Afghanistan or going to......
KABUL: Afghan authorities have arrested four journalists on propaganda charges after they tried to enter the contested area of Spin Boldak in southern Kandahar province, where security forces have......
GAUHATI: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90pc of its eligible adult population within just seven days, its health ministry said on Tuesday.The tiny country, wedged between India......
SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged messages on Tuesday in communication channels that have been dormant for more than a year and agreed to improve ties positive steps but ones that still leave......
SINGAPORE: Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that Beijing’s expansive claims in the South China Sea have “no basis in international law”, taking aim at China’s growing assertiveness in the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed Jawad Paul as registrar of the Supreme Court.Mr Paul is currently posted as additional secretary at the Prime Minister Office and takes care of......
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in India on Tuesday to discuss strengthening Indo-Pacific engagement, seen as a counter to China, as well as New Delhi’s recent human rights......
WASHINGTON: Wiping away tears, a police officer told a rapt US congressional hearing on Tuesday he believed “this is how I’m going to die” while defending the Capitol on January 6 against a......
ISLAMABAD: Following in the footsteps of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), different bar councils and associations have also announced that they will observe black day on Wednesday (today) when the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will start exporting mobile phones in January 2022, Commerce Adviser Razak Dawood said on Tuesday.In a testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on Commerce chaired by......
ISLAMABAD: Dispelling the impression that there is a deadlock between the government and the opposition on the appointment of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Minister for......
SIALKOT: The ruling PTI and the opposition PML-N will clash again in a by-poll for a provincial assembly seat from Sialkot (PP-38, Sialkot-IV) in what is billed to be a neck-and-neck contest on......
LAHORE: In a bid to recover Rs714 million from a Tehran-based firm, the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) is considering various proposals including one about taking up the issue......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved a new spectrum policy for commercial auction of next generation mobile and internet service after which connectivity of mobile phones and broadband......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged Pakistan’s stronger economic activity and kept the global growth forecast largely unchanged at six per cent for the current year and......
• Parents, guards of accused sent to Adiala jail • Senate body takes notice of case, summons police officersISLAMABAD: Investigators in Noor Mukadam murder case on Tuesday recovered mobile phones of......
THERE is nothing surprising about the outcome of the Azad Kashmir elections except for a larger-than-expected margin of success for the PTI. It was strictly according to tradition: the party ruling......
KARACHI: Federal development spending in 2020-21 nominally exceeded its target of Rs650 billion, marking the highest development fund utilisation since 2011-12.Minister for Planning and Development......
I DID not know Noor Mukaddam personally, but I am related to her family and thus to their suffering. But one does not have to know Noor or be related to her to be utterly gutted and devastated by her......
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: As the government pursues the strategy of linking various facilities to vaccination, beginning with the air travel bar from next week and a warning related to restriction on......
AS the security situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, the prospect of foreign militants relocating there from conflict zones elsewhere is becoming more likely. That development is......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Cyber Security Policy 2021 that allows establishment of a national cyber security response framework as the government constituted the......
• Keeps interest rate unchanged at 7pc • Projects GDP growth of 4-5pc this year • Says Pakistan’s reserve buffers are expected to rise by another $2.8bn through IMF’s planned new global SDR......
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the comments made against its judicial system in a latest US report, Pakistan on Tuesday made it clear that its courts were independently performing their functions in accordance......
THERE is nothing surprising about the outcome of the Azad Kashmir elections except for a larger-than-expected margin of success for the PTI. It was strictly according to tradition: the party ruling......
