Facebook Inc's app and its photo-sharing app Instagram were down for thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000......
Two days after the recovery of an allegedly kidnapped man from the office of the excise department's director general (DG) in Karachi, the DG accused police on Monday of misusing their powers and......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has set up a "high-level cell" to investigate the Pakistani individuals named in the "Pandora Papers" — a release of millions of documents detailing how leaders around the......
SAHIWAL: If the actors are getting whoops on dialogue delivery, none in the audience is leaving his/her seat, the spectators are singing along with the performers and the cast is given standing......
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with blasphemous sketches of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday,......
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed expressed on Monday ignorance about the government starting talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), just days after Prime Minister Imran Khan confirmed......
Jordan's royal court on Monday rejected as “distorted” claims made in the Pandora Papers that King Abdullah II created a network of offshore companies to build a $100 million overseas property......
Stadiums in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will operate at 70 per cent of their capacity for the Twenty20 World Cup, the organisers said, though conditions in Oman, where preliminary rounds are due......
The Taliban said on Monday they had destroyed a cell of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in the Afghan capital, hours after a suspected IS attack on a mosque killed five people.The Taliban......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday rued the lack of opportunities available for the middle and poor classes in the country, saying the PTI government was making efforts to change the mindset and......
More Pakistani individuals ranging from media group owners to family members of army personnel to businessmen and executives were identified in the International Consortium of Investigative......
A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred in an exchange of fire with alleged terrorists in the North Waziristan tribal district, the military's media wing said on Monday.According to the Inter-Services......
More than 300 Indians, including cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and businessman Anil Ambani, have been named in the recently released Pandora Papers, Indian media outlets reported on Sunday.The......
BERLIN: RB Leipzig eased the pressure on coach Jesse Marsch as Christopher Nkunku scored twice in a 3-0 home win over Bundesliga strugglers Bochum on Saturday.Portugal striker Andre Silva scored just......
KARACHI: For the second straight night in Rawalpindi, rains arrived to spoil National T20 Cup action after a fabulous exhibition of power-hitting from discarded Pakistan star Shoaib Malik.And again......
KARACHI: Punjab’s Hammad Hassan Shaikh became the first player to register two century breaks in a match when he carved out a 4-1 victory over his fellow qualifier Aamir Sohail from Khyber......
KARACHI: Mohammad Nawaz just couldn’t have hoped for an appropriate moment to showcase his all-round prowess with the Twenty20 World Cup almost on the horizon.The 27-year-old has been the inspiration......
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur beat Aston Villa on Sunday to ease the pressure on manager Nuno Espirito Santo as Liverpool and Manchester City prepared to lock horns at the top of the Premier......
LAHORE: The Sugar Cane Control Board (SCCB) meeting being held here next week is likely to propose Rs250 per 40kg as the minimum purchase price (MRP) of the sugarcane crop for the crushing season......
LAHORE: Punjab government has failed to complete an accreditation committee to regulate the affairs of private universities in the province for the last four months since its chairman and a member......
BAHAWALNAGAR: Madrassa police on Saturday finally booked seven people for gang rape of a minor orphan girl, five months after the incident, while during the period she was repeatedly assaulted by the......
The rising trade deficit, high inflation rates, a more expensive dollar — the age-old woes that took a back seat when the pandemic raged on are again filling business pages.Food is where inflation......
ISLAMABAD: A Himalayan brown bear that had been shifted to a sanctuary in Jordan from Islamabad last year has died of cancer.“Islamabad Wildlife Management Board has some sad news to share. Suzie......
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the provincial government to start work on Leh Expressway and Flood Channel project worth Rs55 billion by the end of December under public-private......
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has slammed both Islamabad and Washington for not recognising Taliban as legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.“America should immediately......
The complete isolation of conflicted, war-ravaged Afghanistan spells disaster for the country remains reliant on foreign aid for its very survival. Security and political dimensions aside, the......
• Country witnessing outbreak of Covid, dengue, typhoid, malaria • Doctors advised to diagnose disease on basis of symptoms, suggest testsISLAMABAD: As Covid-19, dengue, typhoid and malaria are all......
While rising domestic production did not address growing dependence on foreign goods and services nor did exports move fast enough to keep the trade deficit from taking an unsustainable path,......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani on Sunday directed the provincial disaster management authority and other organisations to intensify relief operations in rain-hit areas of......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced that the party will sue the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) for wrongly mentioning the name of Junaid Safdar, the son of Maryam......
THE lot of the Shia Hazaras in Pakistan is defined by relentless persecution in one form or another. Indeed, it is as though they exist in some sort of limbo, beyond the pale of the fundamental human......
THE prime minister in a TV interview has said that the government is trying to negotiate a peace deal with the TTP wherein they will lay down arms and become “normal citizens”. He has also called......
CHAGAI: Immigration clearance to Iran started on Sunday after Iranian authorities lifted travel ban on Pakistani citizens having business and student visas and allowed several people to enter the......
ADDRESSING the UN General Assembly last month, President Joe Biden promised a new era of “relentless diplomacy” and renewed US commitment to multilateralism that his predecessor so disdainfully......
ROME: A small, single-engine plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed on Sunday into a vacant two-story office building in a Milan suburb, and authorities said all eight people aboard......
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter will run for president in the 2022 election and her father’s long-time aide, who has filed his vice presidential candidacy, will be her running......
COX’S BAZAR: Five Rohingya men have been arrested over the killing of a prominent community leader in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, police said on Sunday, adding that they were probing links to a......
ISLAMABAD: With construction activities progressing simultaneously at eight sites, Pakistan Army on Sunday assured project authorities, labourers and contractors working on the $14bn Diamer-Bhasha......
BERLIN: Outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel made an implicit call on politicians to overcome their differences on Sunday, as talks between parties to choose her successor got under way......
WASHINGTON: More than a dozen heads of state and government, including the king of Jordan and the Czech prime minister, have hidden millions in offshore tax havens, according to an investigation......
WASHINGTON: Facebook on Sunday dismissed as “ludicrous” suggestions it contributed to the US Capitol riot on January 6, a charge the social media giant expects will be leveled in an upcoming......
ISLAMABAD: Even though improvements have been introduced in reporting requirements for real estate sector through the Designated Non-Financial Business and Professions (DNFBPs) initiative, a lot of......
JERUSALEM: A plane branded with the logo of national Egyptian carrier Egyptair landed in Israel for the first time on Sunday, a flight described as “historic” by the Israel Airports Authority.Egypt......
MUSCAT: At least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines, authorities said.In Oman, two people died in a landslide and a......
ISLAMABAD: The infighting among top officials of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has turned into a bone of contention between the media watchdog and the ministry of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate on Monday (today) the much ambitious Kamyab Pakistan Programme (KPP) under which Rs1.4 trillion soft loans will be provided to 3.7 million......
• Zardari says only cure for terrorists lies in full implementation of NAP • PML-N recalls country has paid a heavy price for such secret negotiationsISLAMABAD: Rejecting Prime Minister Imran Khan’s......
ADDRESSING the UN General Assembly last month, President Joe Biden promised a new era of “relentless diplomacy” and renewed US commitment to multilateralism that his predecessor so disdainfully......
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Sunday said the offshore companies of his and his family named in the Pandora Papers were opened with the approval of the State Bank of Pakistan at a time when he......
