A sessions court in Islamabad on Monday granted bail to six officials of Therapyworks, including its owner and chief executive officer Tahir Zahoor, in connection with the Noor Mukadam murder......
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday said Pakistan's role in the push to create an "inclusive" political arrangement in Afghanistan following US withdrawal was being "recognised world......
Pirwadhai police on Monday arrested the principal of a seminary for allegedly sexually assaulting and torturing a minor girl, a day after the registration of a first information report (FIR) against......
Lahore police on Monday announced the arrest of 34 more suspects in connection with the assault of a female TikToker and her team at Lahore's Greater Iqbal Park on Independence Day, taking the total......
TO be a victim of gender-based violence in this country is to be violated over and over again. From far too many fellow Pakistanis — mostly male but not exclusively so — such a woman will not find......
Taliban forces have recaptured three districts in northern Afghanistan that fell to local militia groups last week, a spokesman said on Monday.The districts of Bano, Deh Saleh and Pul-e-Hesar in......
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) will be authorised to impose a fine [on TV channels] of up to Rs250......
Drenched in sweat, doctors check patients lying on stretchers in the reception area of Lebanon’s largest public hospital. Air conditioners are turned off, except in operating rooms and storage units,......
Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah announced on Monday that schools that had vaccinated 100 per cent of their staff against Covid-19 would be allowed to open from August 30......
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Monday the Afghan Taliban had reassured the government that the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) would not be given permission to operate in Afghanistan......
Chung Police registered on Monday a first information report (FIR) against a rickshaw driver and another man for gang-raping a woman and her teenage daughter on Lahore Development Authority (LDA)......
A firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen, Western security forces and Afghan guards at the North Gate of Kabul airport on Monday, Germany's armed forces said, as thousands of Afghans and......
Fawad Alam's fifth Test century and Shaheen Shah Afridi's new ball potency pushed Pakistan into the ascendancy on a truncated third day of the rain-affected second Test against the West Indies at......
WASHINGTON: Three major miscalculations — about time, will and trust — caused the collapse of the American plan for an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan, claims a New York Times report published on......
EUGENE: Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah scored an emphatic 100 metres victory over the returning Sha’Carri Richardson at the Eugene Diamond League on Saturday.Jamaican star Thompson-Herah......
LAHORE: Sarfraz Nawaz has written to Prime Minister Imran Khan to nominate either Zaheer Abbas or Majid Khan as next chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), while urging his former new-ball......
LONDON: Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane, two of the world’s best strikers, were back in action in the Premier League on Sunday after some time away.Lukaku made the better impression.Making the first......
PESHAWAR: The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, on Sunday conducted the entry test for academic session 2021, simultaneously at the centres set up in the provincial capital, Mardan,......
BAJAUR: Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak has said that his party was not against the Afghan Taliban, but only condemned violence and terror incidents in......
PESHAWAR: Twenty-five more persons died and 783 Covid-19 patients were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday amid door-to-door vaccination in Peshawar division to prevent the rapid transmission of......
RAWALPINDI: A sanitation worker of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) was caught hiding on a special plane en route to the Netherlands at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA).He was......
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital remains the only city out of the 25 major cities having a population of one million to have surpassed the 40pc vaccinated population target set by the government to be......
KARACHI: Dr Mahnoor Farzand, a flight lieutenant in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), died of Covid-19 early on Sunday morning, taking the tally of doctors falling victim to coronavirus so far in Sindh......
TAXILA: The bond between a brother and sister is as sacred in Hinduism as it is in any other religion, said Danesh Kumar, senator from Balochistan at a function, held to observe Raksha Bandhan at......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to request the Punjab government for provision of land to construct a small dam in the upper area of Simly Dam.“We want to build a small......
KARACHI: Fifty acres of barren Lyari riverbed in Keamari district has been turned into an urban forest with thousands of native trees now flourishing in the area, some of them bearing fruit.Launched......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The police have arrested a man for making a hoax call regarding an attack on a temple.The police said Chandu Ram, of Chak 93-P of Abu Dhabi Palace area, called police helpline 15 that......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq said on Sunday that a conspiracy was being hatched to cover up the tragic Mowach Goth incident but his party would not let that happen.Speaking at a......
LAHORE: Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Inam Ghani has said police operations are underway to arrest the suspects involved in violence and assault on a woman in Greater Iqbal Park on August 14.He......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to showcase the culture, trade and tourism of the province at the upcoming Dubai Expo to be held in November this year.Presiding over a meeting at his office......
LAHORE: In a bid to make the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) an autonomous authority, the government has finalised the draft for the Lahore Waste Management Authority (LWMA) Act-2021.Under the......
SINGAPORE: Vice President Kamala Harris began a trip to Asia on Sunday where she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region after the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan and......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob struck a conciliatory tone in his first national address on Sunday, saying he would embrace the opposition in an effort to tackle the......
KIEV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday that the soon-to-be completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe was “a dangerous......
TEHRAN: Iran’s health ministry on Sunday reported more than 680 daily Covid deaths for the first time, as nationwide restrictions to contain the spread of the virus were lifted.The ministry said the......
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have already caught the interest of large populations of the developed countries and the Pakistani public as well awaits with excitement. Tesla has surpassed all international......
The state-owned enterprises (SOE) bill cleared by the federal cabinet seeks to address issues facing their governance and operations. Its apparent objective is to improve service quality and decrease......
BERLIN: An Afghan woman gave birth to a baby girl on a US military plane shortly after arriving on an evacuation flight to Germany, the US Air Force tweeted on Sunday.During the flight from a staging......
Pakistan hopes to capitalise on the fall of Ashraf Ghani-led hostile regime by increasing the scale and depth of economic engagement with Afghanistan at a time when the economy desperately needs a......
The swift and startling takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in the wake of the US-backed Ashraf Ghani regime in Kabul is causing concern not only about the war-ravaged country’s future but also......
BAHAWALNAGAR: The Fort Abbas police claimed on Sunday to have arrested a man on the charge of raping a schoolteacher.The suspect — the owner of the school — was arrested after a case was registered......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Sunday rejected the idea of sending people evacuation from Afghanistan to countries near Russia, saying he did not want “militants showing up here under cover of......
Although the oil refining industry in the country is completing a century now, four out of five local refineries are obsolete by international standards while the fifth one is also over two decades......
ISLAMABAD: Religious scholars belonging to various schools of thought have condemned the rape of a girl in a seminary in Rawalpindi and demanded that perpetrators of such heinous crimes should be......
KARACHI: The federal government, while acknowledging the fact that domestic prices of essential food items have gone up over the last three years, has claimed that it has absorbed a considerable......
RAWALPINDI: The European Union (EU) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have sought help from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to evacuate their employees from Afghanistan.In a letter to PIA Chief......
ISLAMABAD: A presidential ordinance promulgated on Saturday gave strong legal and administrative powers to a proposed authority charged with retrieving “illegally occupied” state lands and assets.The......
ISLAMABAD: Former Afghan prime minister and Hizb-i-Islami (HI) chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for peaceful settlement of the Afghan conflict and asked India not to fight......
LAST week, a family member of an Afghan journalist who worked for a German broadcaster was killed by the Taliban. They went from house to house searching for the journalist, who was already in......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong on Sunday met Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid to take up the issue of safety of Chinese nationals in Pakistan, demanding stronger security protocol for......
LAST week’s dramatic developments in Afghanistan that stunned the world raise a host of critical questions about the future. What can be expected under a Taliban government? How is the international......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday disposed of 42 representations of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in cases of bogus sales tax invoices worth over Rs1.2 billion.The representations had......
ISLAMABAD: As Ehsaas — an umbrella of 20 programmes of social safety and welfare — has completed a fresh poverty survey for 2021 in the country, the number of Benazir Income Support Programme......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) says it is ready to support a no-confidence motion to topple the government provided the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) comes up with a workable......
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI: As the number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients has increased by almost three folds in the past 45 days, the Sindh government has decided that educational institutes in the......
• Taliban blame US for situation at the airport • Fighters heading to Panjshir to take on opposition forces • OIC calls for a terrorist-free AfghanistanKABUL: A day after seven people were killed in......
TO be a victim of gender-based violence in this country is to be violated over and over again. From far too many fellow Pakistanis — mostly male but not exclusively so — such a woman will not find......
ISLAMABAD: While the government is keen to expedite electoral reforms, including the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), recent circulars issued by the Senate Secretariat have put key......
WASHINGTON: Three major miscalculations — about time, will and trust — caused the collapse of the American plan for an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan, claims a New York Times report published on......
LAST week’s dramatic developments in Afghanistan that stunned the world raise a host of critical questions about the future. What can be expected under a Taliban government? How is the international......
RAWALPINDI: A sanitation worker of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) was caught hiding on a special plane en route to the Netherlands at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA).He was......
Awareness of our interconnectedness with other species grew rapidly in 2020 as it became clear that unsustainable development increases the risk of disease pandemics such as Covid-19. In 2021,......
