The British navy warned on Tuesday of a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman, without elaborating.The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime......
Spinner Nasum Ahmed claimed four wickets as Bangladesh defended 131 to beat Australia for the first time in Twenty20 internationals on Tuesday in Dhaka.Nasum, a left-arm spinner, returned career-best......
Gunshots were fired on Tuesday morning near the entrance of the Pentagon, resulting in multiple injuries. The facility, the headquarters of the United States military, was placed on lockdown.The......
Retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa will be replaced by Khalid Mansoor as the chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority.Bajwa announced his departure in a tweet, saying Mansoor would......
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday blamed the Sindh government's poor governance for the worsening Covid-19 situation in Karachi and Hyderabad, noting that......
The search for the four girls, who went missing in Lahore on Monday, continued for the second day as police officials attempted to trace their journey since they had left their homes the previous......
The United Arab Emirates will lift a ban on transit passenger traffic from Pakistan, India, Nigeria and other countries from August 5, the federation's National Emergency and Crisis Management......
A sessions court in Lahore on Tuesday ordered the prime minister’s adviser, Shahzad Akbar, to appear in person or depute a representative to the court in order to pardon PTI MPA Nazir Chohan in the......
SINCE being officially launched by President Xi in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has attracted some $25 billion investment into Pakistan’s roads, ports, power plants and......
The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has signed a partnership with Global Soccer Ventures (GSV) to kick off the country's first-ever football league, the Pakistan Football League (PFL), and upgrade......
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday withdrew its notification from a day earlier that showed the purchase price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo at $20.055 by the Pakistan......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has turned down the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) request to not recognise the Kashmir Premier League (KPL), explaining that non-international......
Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Asad Umar announced on Tuesday that Pakistan had hit the target of administering one million Covid-19 vaccination doses in a day.The......
TOKYO: Britain’s Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen on Monday won Olympic team gold in equestrian eventing, bringing the top medal back to Britain after decades of the country coming......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has issued draft cloud adoption guidelines for the registered companies to secure their sensitive and secretive data from cyber......
GUJAR KHAN: Two suspects wanted for their alleged involvement in the rape of a boy were arrested by Kallar Syedan police on Sunday night.According to details, the case was registered in Kallar Syedan......
ISLAMABAD: In a new twist, it has been transpired that Capital Development Authority (CDA) itself approved narrowing of the nullah in E-11/2 from 40 feet to 18 feet, which caused urban flooding and......
LAHORE: The burden of critical patients of Covid-19 is increasing fast in public and private hospitals of Punjab after the highly infectious and deadly Delta variant visibly dominated other......
TOKYO: Britain beat Spain in a penalty shootout to secure the last semi-final spot in the women’s Olympic hockey tournament on Monday, joining India, Argentina and the Netherlands in the last......
TOKYO: Three women dominated the focus at the Olympics on Monday — US gymnast Simone Biles, Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard — as politics and personal......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) two-judge bench on Monday denied two oil marketing companies (OMCs) a stay against a single bench order wherein the federal government was asked to ensure recovery......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly speaker is adamant on ‘protecting’ the sanctity of the house on Nazir Chohan’s production issue, though the MPA himself shows his inability to attend the assembly session......
GILGIT: Entry of tourists to Gilgit-Baltistan has been banned for next two days as work continues to clear the Karakoram Highway and Babusar road of landslides.According to a notification issued by......
QUETTA: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a reference following an investigation into the illegal allotment of 581 plots allegedly by some senior officials of the Gwadar......
PESHAWAR: Member of the opposition Jamaat-i-Islami Inayatullah Khan, who had served as a minister in the last Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government, on Monday disclosed in the provincial assembly that......
KARACHI: A sessions court dismissed on Monday the applications of two suspects seeking exclusion of the charge of rape from the case pertaining to the alleged suicide of Dr Maha Shah due to mental......
KARACHI: The death of a 36-year-old unmarried woman from severe burns on Monday took a new turn when her brother accused his stepmother and stepbrother of burning her to death and trying to give it a......
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A soldier was martyred in an exchange of fire with militants on Monday after they attacked a check-post in the Ghariom area of North Waziristan tribal district.Military personnel......
KARACHI: A 19-storey residential-cum-commercial building in Clifton Cantonment is being constructed in brazen violation of Supreme Court orders. On Jan 22, 2019, a two-judge bench led by Justice......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif on Monday drew the attention of the National Assembly Speaker to what he called ‘illegal appointment’ of the National Commission on Status of Women......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar enjoys a good command over the law, has a good demeanour and his dispensation of justice is appreciable, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed said in......
MARMARIS: The European Union sent help to Turkey on Monday and volunteers joined firefighters in battling a week of violent blazes that have killed eight people and put pressure on President Recep......
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it was ready to take in thousands more Afghans whose US links put them at risk from the Taliban as Western troops leave, but the asylum-seekers will face......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that after attaining what he called “stability” in the economy, his government’s next target was to increase exports and cut imports to save......
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Google unveiled on Monday a flagship Pixel smart phone powered by its first mobile chip to put artificial intelligence in buyers’ hands.Pixel 6 models set for release later this year,......
LOS ANGELES: With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is......
LAHORE: Putting to rest speculation that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is considering revisiting its policy of civilian supremacy, the party’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif has categorically......
BEIJING: Millions of people were confined to their homes in China on Monday as the country tried to contain its largest coronavirus outbreak in months including seven positive tests found in Wuhan,......
ISLAMABAD: The government’s battle against bloated trade deficit is reversing as it widened 81.4 per cent in the first month of the current fiscal year (FY22), driven largely by almost double......
SINCE being officially launched by President Xi in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has attracted some $25 billion investment into Pakistan’s roads, ports, power plants and......
LAHORE: A Chinese company building a 720-megawatt hydropower generation complex on the Jhelum River says it has been facing serious problems and delays in obtaining advance tax exemption orders at......
ISLAMABAD: Inflation eased to 8.4 per cent in July, from 9.7pc in June, on the back of a slight drop in prices of food products, showed the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on......
KABUL: The Afghan president on Monday blamed the American troops’ speedy pullout for the worsening violence in his country and said his administration would now focus on protecting provincial......
ONE sees a few good reasons to miss Dilip Kumar every Aug 5, starting this week. It was on this day that his most popular movie Mughal-i-Azam was released in 1960 depicting a halcyonic blend of Hindu......
ISLAMABAD: Making a new record, the state-run Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has purchased a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at $20.055 per unit (almost 27.9pc of Brent), the highest ever not only in......
AS confusion clouds the future of Afghanistan with the Taliban on the rampage across the hapless country, and the government in Kabul unable to put up a solid defence, neighbouring states, including......
ISLAMABAD: Reiterating the government’s stance that the country has been in the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list merely on political grounds, Minister of State for Parliamentary......
KARACHI: The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has grown at an annualised rate of almost 14 per cent since its inception 30 years ago, according to a research report issued by......
ONE sees a few good reasons to miss Dilip Kumar every Aug 5, starting this week. It was on this day that his most popular movie Mughal-i-Azam was released in 1960 depicting a halcyonic blend of Hindu......
KARACHI: Brisk auto sales pushed petrol sales to an all-time high of 0.81 million tonnes in July 2021, up 12.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY) and 4pc month-on-month (MoM).Overall, oil industry sales......
ISLAMABAD: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Monday said it had achieved a major milestone towards completion of the river diversion system of Mohmand Dam by connecting with......
ISLAMABAD: The Pak-China Relations Steering Committee on Monday directed finalisation of a uniform policy framework within a month for extension in commercial operation dates (CODs) of five power......
ISLAMABAD: Frustrated with the attitude of the Afghan government, Pakistan has given up its plan to host Afghan Peace Conference involving Afghanistan’s political leadership.The plan has been quietly......
LONDON: A London High Court has ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Pakistan government to pay a sum of 1.2 million dollars to asset-recovery firm Broadsheet LLC by next week.After......
AS confusion clouds the future of Afghanistan with the Taliban on the rampage across the hapless country, and the government in Kabul unable to put up a solid defence, neighbouring states, including......
