The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi on Tuesday reinstated Mohammad Gibrail as a student, a week after expelling him for sharing details of an alleged harassment incident at the......
Prime Minister Imran Khan stressed on Tuesday the need to end the "illicit flow of money from poor countries to rich capitals, to tax havens, to haven destinations", which he said was "crushing the......
The Pakistan Army's top brass on Tuesday expressed the resolve to take necessary measures to safeguard Pakistan’s territorial integrity in the face of "malicious propaganda" by the Indian military,......
Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Tuesday that the government would be introducing an ordinance for the appointment of the National Accountability Bureau's......
Islamabad police on Tuesday baton-charged young doctors outside the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) building while they were protesting against the government's decision for making the National......
Transparency advocates are calling on Britain to tighten the country’s defences against money laundering and tax avoidance after a massive leak of financial data showed how London is a key......
THE Pandora Papers have created a stir, but have not triggered a political earthquake like the Panama Papers. Released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Sunday, the......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday filed a petition with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking annulment of the verdict in the Avenfield Apartment reference.Accountability Court judge......
Girls have returned to some secondary schools in a northern province of Afghanistan, Taliban officials and teachers said on Tuesday, but they remain barred from classrooms in much of the......
An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims of paedophilia from 1950 to 2020, a “massive phenomenon”......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has said Pakistan "owes [its] peace and stability to the selfless devotion and sacrifices" of its martyrs.He made the comment during an investiture......
• NAB will handle cases of cabinet members, as opposition seeks their removal • Corruption, money laundering, tax evasion cases to be referred to NAB, FIA, FBR, respectively • Pemra, information......
More than 100 music students and teachers have fled Afghanistan in a nail-biting flight from Kabul following the Taliban's takeover of the country, their institute's founder and principal told......
Top US officials will tell their Israeli counterparts on Tuesday that the Biden administration remains committed to diplomacy with Iran, but if necessary would be prepared to pursue "other avenues"......
PostEx, a Pakistani fintech and logistics startup, has announced that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from leading institutional investors.The startup said its initiative was aimed at......
LAHORE: Punjab has demanded that the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) must go by the book in distribution of the available water instead of bowing to pressure tactics by a province.“Water......
PESHAWAR: A fourth-grade girl has moved the Peshawar High Court against her expulsion by a private school in Mardan district after allegedly subjecting her to severe corporal punishment and......
LAHORE: A sessions court on Monday indicted former Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) leader Mufti Azizur Rehman and his five sons in a case of sexually abusing a student of his madressah.The cleric and his......
LAHORE: The provincial government seems ‘reluctantly restoring’ the local government institutions in line with the Punjab Local Government Act (PLGA) 2013 as asked by the Supreme Court, since it is......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking action against owner of a private housing society in tree-chopping case under the Martial Law......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday announced that an Air Patrolling Unit would soon be established in the capital.Speaking at a news conference, he said he would inaugurate......
LAHORE: Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez after fully recovering from dengue fever resumed cricket practice here on Monday.The 40-year-old Hafeez who is part of national T20 World Cup squad, was......
KARACHI: Although Southern Punjab, as widely anticipated given the rut they are in, crashed to a sixth straight National T20 Cup defeat, there was a flicker of hope for Pakistan’s Twenty20 Word Cup......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought comments from the Islamabad chief commissioner and others in a petition seeking de-sealing of the office of Therapyworks.The organisation’s......
LONDON: England will only travel to Australia for the Ashes series across December and January if their leading players are in the squad.That was the message from the England and Wales Cricket Board......
KARACHI: Defending champion and top seed Mohammad Asif and third seed Shahid Aftab consolidated their positions for making it to the knockout round of the NBP 46th National Snooker Championship here......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa forestry department on Monday informed the provincial assembly that the forests spread over an area of 815 acres were gutted in different fire incidents in the year......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau’s deputy chairman Hussain Asghar has reportedly tendered his resignation to President Dr Arif Alvi.Reasons behind his decision could not be......
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) president Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal has said the provincial government is facing the present political crisis due to its own wrongdoings and its......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that arresting and detaining a person without any incriminating material offend his or her right to dignity.“The human dignity encapsulates the notion that every......
THE Pandora Papers have created a stir, but have not triggered a political earthquake like the Panama Papers. Released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Sunday, the......
WERE the choice to be one between nationalism and internationalism many would have had no hesitation to support and own the latter for a host of sound reasons. However, the current defining stand-off......
THE government is ready to talk once again, says the prime minister though no one knows if the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is willing to walk the talk. But always keen to follow the newest fad......
GENEVA: War crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of child soldiers, have been committed in Libya since 2016, a United Nations investigation revealed on Monday.The Independent......
FRANKFURT: Politicians hailed the opening of a “green” kerosene plant in Germany on Monday as a step towards decarbonising the airline sector and meeting the country’s climate targets.The plant in......
TOKYO: Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday he will dissolve the lower house next week in preparation for Oct 31 elections as he seeks a fresh mandate to deal with the......
NEW YORK: World leaders were on the defensive on Monday after the release of millions of documents detailing how heads of state use offshore tax havens to stash assets worth hundreds of millions of......
STOCKHOLM: US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch.The duo’s research, conducted independently......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday notified an increase of up to Rs2.97 per unit in electricity rates for ex-Wapda distribution companies under the......
KARACHI: The Searle Company Ltd reported a consolidated net profit of Rs3.74bn for 2020-21, up 47pc from the preceding year.In a stock notification on Monday, the pharmaceutical firm also announced......
• PM’s aide says QAU will hold post-exam analysis • PMA demands suspension of resultsISLAMABAD: While the results of the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) are to be announced on Oct......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s major opposition parties on Monday rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to establish a cell to investigate those Pakistani nationals whose names had appeared in the......
LAHORE: The coating industry, which has a major share in the paint sector, wants the government to formally recognise it as an export-oriented industry, as it says it will enhance the country’s......
• NAB will handle cases of cabinet members, as opposition seeks their removal • Corruption, money laundering, tax evasion cases to be referred to NAB, FIA, FBR, respectively • Pemra, information......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday announced a 40 per cent targeted subsidy for the poor on purchase of essential food items, saying the special step would provide relief to low-income......
KARACHI: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) posted earnings of Rs8.9 billion in the first nine months of 2020-21, up 54.7 per cent from a year ago, according to a notice on the Pakistan Stock......
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp lit up again late on Monday after a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging......
HAMBURG: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has issued a new international tender to purchase 50,000 tonnes of white sugar, European traders said on Monday.The deadline for submission of price......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday summoned officials of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Ministry of Finance and Federal Investigation......
KARACHI: Overall cement sales — domestic and exports — fell 5.67pc to 12.825 million tonnes during the first quarter (July-September) of this fiscal year from 13.596m tonnes in the corresponding......
THE government is ready to talk once again, says the prime minister though no one knows if the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is willing to walk the talk. But always keen to follow the newest fad......
KARACHI: The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed at 45,045 points on Monday after gaining 173 points, or 0.4 per cent, from a day ago.The KSE-100 index closed in the green......
Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen is expected to tell US Congress on Tuesday that the company faces little oversight and liken the social media giant to tobacco companies that......
