About two dozen women activists protested outside Afghanistan's women's ministry on Sunday after it was closed by Taliban officials in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry for Promotion of......
A ray of hope emerged for the public transport woes of Karachi's residents as the first consignment of 40 buses for the Green Line bus rapid transit system (BRTS) reached the city on......
The New Zealand tour of Pakistan was abandoned after the New Zealand government received an alert from the “Five Eyes” intelligence group about a "direct and imminent" threat to its team, Pakistan......
Israeli forces on Sunday arrested the last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli prison two weeks ago, closing an intense, embarrassing episode that exposed deep......
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that the 2023 general election would be based on and possible only after electoral reforms, adding that "there is no other way [possible] except......
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday emphasised the need to "take all provinces forward", adding that doing so and working together would strengthen the democratic system.The PML-N president made......
AFTER a huge win with the Taliban taking over Kabul without a bullet being fired and the hostile, Indian-backed Ghani government consigned to history following the US withdrawal, why is it that signs......
One slept on the streets of Paris, the other in a massive makeshift migrant camp in northern France.Nassrullah Youssoufi and Abdul Wali were among more than one million refugees and migrants who......
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the......
THERE was chaos and despair when New Zealand decided to call off their tour of Pakistan barely minutes before the scheduled start of the ODI series in Rawalpindi on Friday. After all, this tour had......
New Zealand's cricket squad have reached Dubai, two days after abandoning their tour of Pakistan over security concerns, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said in a statement on Sunday.The squad, comprising......
The last one year has seen an exponential rise in Pakistani start-up companies, as more and more tech-savvy entrepreneurs attempt to solve longstanding business issues with the help of technology.......
World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send......
LAHORE: While Murad Ali faces Muqeet Tahir in the men’s singles final while Mahoor Shahzad meets Palwasha Bashir in the women’s singles decider after winning their respective semi-finals of the All......
MISANO ADRIATICO: Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia claimed a second consecutive MotoGP pole position when he set the all-time lap record in qualifying at the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday.Bagnaia, who......
NEW DELHI: India head coach Ravi Shastri said he will not seek an extension of his contract after his tenure ends at the conclusion of the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has maintained status quo in the Defence Officers Colony cell tower case until further orders asking the mobile operator and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cricket began confronting its worst fear on Saturday, with the national side staring at another era of isolation from hosting international matches after New Zealand abandoned its......
LONDON: Martin Odegaard scored his first goal since his permanent switch to Arsenal on Saturday to further ease the pressure on Mikel Arteta as Sadio Mane helped fire Liverpool to the top of the......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Saturday expressed displeasure over the delay in the remodeling of the Warsak canal system in Peshawar and Nowshera districts and directed the relevant......
PESHAWAR: Twenty-one coronavirus patients died and 334 people were infected with the virus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday amid declining positivity rate in high-risk districts.The province’s......
SUKKUR: Several thousand workers and supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday took part in a demonstration and some of them observed a hunger strike outside the local press club to......
KARACHI: A minor girl was kidnapped and raped allegedly by her 20-year-old neighbour in the outskirts of the city on Saturday, police and hospital officials said.A police officer said that a man......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted five more days to the investigating officer of the Mehran Town factory fire case for filing a final investigation report.The fire allegedly caused......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday recorded statements of six bankers as prosecution witnesses in a money-laundering inquiry by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against Leader of......
LAHORE: In a brash act of what appears to be exhibitionism, a young man stripped himself in front of a woman outside her home in Gulshan-i-Ravi area and fled the scene.The despicable act by the man,......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti has constituted a full bench to decide several long pending petitions including three filed by lawyers who are no more.These include......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Saturday appointed five members of the board of governors (BoG) of the Federal Medical Teaching Institution (FMTI) of Pakistan Institute......
ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered against Maulana Abdul Aziz, his collaborators as well as seminary students under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and different sections of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)......
TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday hailed its acceptance into a China and Russia-led bloc, an eastward turn it sees as opening access to major world markets and a counter to crippling Western......
ALGIERS: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who ruled Algeria for two decades before resigning in 2019 as huge protests engulfed the country, has died aged 84, public television announced.The former strongman had......
WASHINGTON: Hundreds of police officers were patrolling around the US Capitol on Saturday, ahead of a rally by supporters of the people who breached the building on Jan 6 trying to overturn former......
PARIS: France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of......
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the propagation of “virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World......
LAHORE: The textile industry has asked the federal government to better announce regionally competitive energy tariff of electricity and gas for five years to attract huge investments in the textile......
KARACHI: Banks with a high level of investments in government securities will be subject to additional taxation 2022 onwards, which will be bad for their bottom lines.According to a research report......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has regulated the cement sector and issued 22 no-objection certificates (NOCs) for the setting up of new cement factories while ensuring that no more unit is established......
KARACHI: Running vehicles on compressed natural gas (CNG) against petrol to cut travelling cost has lost its charm as some stakeholders say that the saving has dropped to only five per cent while......
KARACHI: The stock market remained range-bound in the outgoing week with the KSE-100 index recording a fall of 562 points, or 1.19 per cent, to close at 46,636.Investors mostly remained in a......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s decision to discontinue ‘Doing Business Report’ has irked Pakistan which was confident that the country would make a big jump in the next report to improve the current......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Saturday said the government would adopt a gender roadmap to achieve equality.He was speaking at a meeting during......
WASHINGTON: Shehryar Khan Afridi, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, was stopped briefly at New York’s JFK Airport for screening but was later allowed to enter the United States,......
ISLAMABAD: Argentina is planning to buy 12 JF-17A Block-III fighter jets from Pakistan, according to reports in the international media.The reports surfaced after the Argentinian government......
The word ‘scapegoat’ is derived from the Book of Leviticus which is the third book of the Torah and of the Old Testament. In one of its stories, all the sins of Israel are put on the head of a goat,......
PRIME Minister Imran Khan has announced that he has started a dialogue with the Taliban for the formation of a broad-based and inclusive government. This important statement came after his meeting......
THE Afghan Taliban’s retaking of Kabul may be the climax of a 20-year-long war in Afghanistan but it is difficult to suggest that this will put an end to the proxy warfare being fought on Afghan soil......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has said it always views delay in filing jail petitions or applications for permission to file appeals in criminal cases by imprisoned accused through the lens of......
QUETTA: Despite efforts of Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to mediate between the rivals, the crisis arising out of combined opposition’s move of filing a no-confidence motion against Balochistan......
LAHORE: Though the non-extendable four-year tenure of National Accountability Bureau chairman Javed Iqbal is ending early next month, Prime Minister Imran Khan is not willing to consult the Leader of......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has imposed additional sales tax ranging between 5 and 17 per cent on supply of electricity and gas to the non-filer industrial and commercial entities in an attempt......
ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) dedicates another Sunday (today) to the partially-vaccinated people for the third week in a row to facilitate them in getting their second......
• Urges institutions, judiciary, ECP to ensure rule of law, fair polls • Shibli rejects Shehbaz’s criticismNAROWAL: PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif asked the national institutions, judiciary and......
THE Afghan Taliban’s retaking of Kabul may be the climax of a 20-year-long war in Afghanistan but it is difficult to suggest that this will put an end to the proxy warfare being fought on Afghan soil......
AFTER a huge win with the Taliban taking over Kabul without a bullet being fired and the hostile, Indian-backed Ghani government consigned to history following the US withdrawal, why is it that signs......
