Police have arrested the owners and a supervisor of a factory in Karachi’s Mehran Town after a local court revoked an interim pre-arrest bail granted to them in a case pertaining to the death of 16......
Indian security forces maintained an armed guard around the grave of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday, amid mounting public anger over police footage of his funeral, which his family......
Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others appeared in court for the first time in more than 18 months on Tuesday as US military prosecutors seek justice two decades after......
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday announced members of the "acting" government, saying that it will be led by Mohammad Hasan Akhund while the group's co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar......
Two Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in North Waziristan on Tuesday, the military's media affairs wing said.In a statement, the Inter-Services......
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking a third term in office in snap elections later this month, has repeatedly faced off against angry protesters on the campaign trail. And now, one has......
Karachi-based startup Truck It In, a road freight tech platform, announced on Tuesday that it has raised another $3 million in an extended pre-seed round, taking the total amount to $4.5m which it......
The Taliban on Tuesday fired shots into the air to disperse hundreds of people who had gathered at several rallies in Kabul — the latest signs of defiance by Afghans against the hardline movement......
The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the appointment of Kamran Ali Afzal as the Punjab chief secretary and Sardar Ali Khan as Punjab inspector general of police (IGP) with immediate effect......
The MV Heng Tong 77, a container ship stranded at Karachi’s Seaview beach, was freed from the spot on Tuesday and tugged to the port at Keamari for repair work, said Special Assistant to Prime......
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that society becomes free when it gets justice, since the latter was necessary to uplift the common person. He reassured that the government would fully......
WASHINGTON: As Pakistan takes centre stage in the effort to evacuate stranded people from Afghanistan, the United States confirmed on Monday that it has facilitated the evacuation of four US citizens......
US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin opened talks on Tuesday in key diplomatic hub Qatar as they try to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan after the Taliban......
Pakistan cricket was rocked yesterday when it saw its head coach Misbahul Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis relinquish their positions, with the T20 World Cup a little over a month away.The feeble......
ISLAMABAD: A number of bodies representing lawyers across the country have called upon their members to turn up in large numbers at a convention in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday (Sept 9) to......
India's brutal repression in occupied Kashmir has risen to a level that now even poets are "muzzled" in the disputed territory, according to a New York Times report.The report is based on interviews......
Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male peers by curtains......
Afghan activist Omaid Sharifi's art collective spent seven years transforming stretches of Kabul's labyrinthine concrete blast walls with colourful murals — then the Taliban marched in.Within weeks......
El Salvador on Tuesday becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, despite widespread domestic scepticism and international warnings of risks for consumers.President......
SWABI: Students of pharmacy department of the University of Swabi on Monday staged a protest demonstration against holding of on-campus examinations.The students gathered at the main campus and......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday decided to set up separate jails for women across the province.Special assistant to chief minister for prisons Mr Shafiullah said a proposal had......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday issued notices to the provincial government, Peshawar’s deputy commissioner and capital city police officer seeking their written replies to a petition......
ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move, the capital police escorted an ambulance carrying the body of a teenager who died in police custody to Peshawar.A family member of the boy, Shabbir Pakhtonyar, told......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Monday asked female teachers not to wear jeans and tights and banned their male counterparts from wearing jeans and t-shirts.All principals......
LAHORE: At least six persons, including three sons of a PML-N candidate, were injured allegedly when his political opponents opened fire during the cantonment board poll campaign late on......
CAPE TOWN: John Watkins, who had been the world’s oldest living Test cricketer, has died in Durban at the age of 98, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Monday.His death leaves fellow South......
ZURICH: FIFA has opened an investigation into the postponement of Argentina’s World Cup qualifier with Brazil with its president Gianni Infantino labelling the events “crazy”.The match at Sao Paulo’s......
PESHAWAR: The proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has issued a stark warning to national media and journalists, asking them to refrain from calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to National Accountability Bureau and lawyers for Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and other suspects over the apex court’s remanding......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti is concerned over a delay in appointment of the judges to the federal and provincial ex-cadre courts working in Punjab despite......
KARACHI: The Sindh ombudsman on Monday directed the provincial government to launch an inquiry and take action against a private educational institution for “jeopardising the career of students” by......
KARACHI: A sessions court has issued bailable warrants for the arrest of 11 witnesses, who failed to appear in court to record their testimonies against the accused in the Dr Maha Ali Shah suicide......
LAHORE: A large number of passengers thronged the Lahore and other railways stations on Monday due to closure of the inter-city public transport in the wake of fresh Covid restrictions.As all bus......
ROME: Coronavirus cut average life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years in 2020, and by more than four years in parts of the country hit hard by the pandemic, official statistics showed on Monday.Life......
TASHKENT: Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school, the Central Asian country’s education ministry......
WASHINGTON: Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida have identified the apparent source as one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a......
ISLAMABAD: A workshop was held on Monday to take stock of the Ehsaas programme’s progress, successes and lessons learnt across 14 districts to upscale it nationwide.Representatives from the field......
DOHA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Doha on Monday for crisis talks with the Qataris after the Taliban claimed to have full control over Afghanistan.Shortly before landing, an......
ISLAMABAD: Indirectly criticising the opposition, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that enforcing the rule of law was the biggest challenge of the government and the opposition was the......
ISLAMABAD: A number of bodies representing lawyers across the country have called upon their members to turn up in large numbers at a convention in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday (Sept 9) to......
IN a world away from Afghanistan, Pakistani politics is picking up pace. Parties and individuals are making moves, big and small, some in the full glare of publicity and some quietly. But they are......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday stressed the need for market-based knowledge in the engineering sector and creating links between universities and industries so that the country could......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs is heading towards a deadlock on the issue of use of electronic voting machine (EVM) as the treasury members insisted on using the......
WITH the regional security situation extremely fluid in Pakistan’s immediate neighbourhood, particularly next door in Afghanistan, the state must keep a keen eye on subversive elements that may try......
THERE is no reason to believe that Hindutva cannot be defeated, or dismantled, as a group of intellectuals and academics have come together to attempt. Hundreds of intellectuals from around the world......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday reserved its judgement in a case relating to delay in holding local government elections in Sindh after a representative of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday issued a notice to the Pakistan Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) for allegedly securing a favourable order from the court on the basis of......
WASHINGTON: As Pakistan takes centre stage in the effort to evacuate stranded people from Afghanistan, the United States confirmed on Monday that it has facilitated the evacuation of four US citizens......
LAHORE: With Pakistan suffering an “unprecedented dry” year, both the dams have started depleting fast before getting filled properly, as national inflows drop exceptionally and water planners now......
• Power Division told to protect paying consumers from loadshedding • CCI decides to include hydel electricity in renewable energy targetsISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the......
ISLAMABAD: Amid surging trade deficit, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Monday asked the commerce ministry to conduct sensitivity analysis and build scenarios for effective forecasting both in......
KARACHI: Fauji Foods will raise Rs7.8 billion by issuing rights shares at the price of Rs10 apiece, a stock filing said on Monday.The 10th largest listed food company in terms of total sales is going......
REMEMBER the neocons? Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton and their hangers-on in the right-wing think tanks of Washington? They were the men — nearly all of them men — who provided the......
ISLAMABAD: As the telecom industry’s market size has grown to $16.9 billion after attracting $1.2bn in foreign direct investments in the last three years, the Ministry of Information Technology and......
ISLAMABAD: The government has asked all six oil refining facilities in the country to provide full details of Deemed Duty (DD) collected on petroleum products since its inception two decades ago......
