The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday the restoration of popular video-sharing platform TikTok's service in the country following assurances by the Chinese social media......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have caved in to farmers' demands that he scraps laws they say threaten their livelihoods.But reaction to the shock U-turn in India's rural north, where Modi's......
Tesla Inc subjects female workers to “nightmarish” conditions of rampant sexual harassment at its main factory, and supervisors turn their backs when complaints are brought, according to a new......
A Karachi court directed on Friday the National Database and Registration Authority's (Nadra) Sindh director to block the national identity card of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPA Malik Shehzad Awan and......
President Joe Biden will transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris during the “brief” time on Friday he is under anaesthesia for a colonoscopy as part of a regular health check, the White House......
Tim Paine, who quit on Friday as Test skipper, was hailed as Australian cricket's saviour when he took over the captaincy in 2018 after a ball-tampering scandal left the team's reputation in......
The Allahabad high court in India has called upon New Delhi to look into implementing the mandate of Article 44 of the Indian Constitution, which says that the “state shall endeavour to secure for......
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said the state and the government are not fully ready to fight extremism in the country.“Many people think that the remedial steps taken by us [the......
Pakistan recovered from a top-order collapse to beat Bangladesh by four wickets in the first Twenty20 international of their three-match series in Dhaka on Friday.The visitors restricted Bangladesh......
Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice Maleeka Bokhari revealed on Friday that a clause providing for "chemical castration” of habitual rapists had been removed from the Criminal Law (Amendment)......
Thousands of Kashmiris defied the biting winter cold to attend the funerals on Friday of two men killed during a security operation, heralding a widespread shutdown in the Indian-occupied valley.The......
The upper house of parliament on Friday passed four bills, including the Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Bill 2021 and the National Accountability Amendment Bill 2021, amidst......
Software company Afiniti's founder Zia Chishti stepped down from his senior roles in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him, it emerged on Friday.According to a statement posted on the......
Former South Africa international AB de Villiers said he has decided to retire from all forms of cricket, bringing to an end a 17-year career.De Villiers had retired from all international formats in......
Distraught and in tears, Tim Paine stepped down as Australia's Test cricket captain on Friday after revelations he had been investigated and cleared over sexually explicit text messages sent to a......
LONDON: The “drinking culture” in county teams was partly responsible for Asian and Black players not getting enough opportunities in English cricket, former West Indies international Tino Best has......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday he would repeal controversial farm laws that farmers have protested for more than a year, a significant climbdown for the combative leader.The......
MELBOURNE: The Australian Open tennis Grand Slam and Australia’s Boxing Day cricket Test against arch-rivals England in Melbourne will be able to welcome capacity crowds as COVID-19 restrictions ease......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Super League has received a major boost from Habib Bank Limited which has reacquired the title sponsorship of Pakistan Cricket Board’s pinnacle tournament for another four-year......
DHAKA: Pakistan aim to keep up momentum from their strong T20 World Cup showing with a largely unchanged squad for this week’s tour of Bangladesh, skipper Babar Azam said on Thursday.Babar’s side......
ISLAMABAD: The allottees of E-12 are still waiting for taking possession of their plots which they purchased from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in 1989.The CDA was supposed to hand over......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Thursday gathered various Islamic scholars who gave a ruling (fatwa) that smoking is impermissible, undesirable and unlawful, due to its negative......
LAHORE: Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has condemned extrajudicial killing of five Kashmiris, saying it appears to be the Modi government’s plan to eliminate the identity of......
LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has asked its voters to abstain from voting on NA-133 by-election polling day as the party candidate committed a blunder of not meeting legal requirements......
PESHAWAR: A judicial commission has held two police constables responsible for killing a college student in Faqirabad area here in March this year and declared the use of force by them against him a......
PESHAWAR: Some parents are reluctant to administer vaccines to their school going children in the measles and rubella campaign during which more than four million people have been immunised so......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has questioned the ‘hidden agenda’ behind the hasty legislation on the electronic voting machines (EVMs).“Will those who stole General Elections 2018 and......
SWAT: The archaeologists and cultural activists have said that the new explorations on the top of the ancient city of Bazira can attract tourists from around the world and boost cultural tourism.They......
KARACHI: The health department has recently sent a sample of a suspected new variant of dengue virus to the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), sources told Dawn on Thursday.The step, they said, was......
Less than 10 days after their World Cup 2021 campaign came to an end, Pakistan are in Dhaka to take on Bangladesh in the 1st T20I. Traditionally, no one has quaked when facing Bangladesh, but here......
KARACHI: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood announced on Thursday that the upcoming examinations at all levels of educational institutions would be held under full syllabus and there would be......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday accused the federal government of having launched an ‘unrealistic rotation policy’ for transfer and posting of PAS (Pakistan......
LONDON: A regulator on Thursday said it had opened a formal probe into donations received by a Saudi tycoon’s charitable trust which were intended for Prince Charles’ foundation.The Charities......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has alerted the international community that Afghanistan was on the verge of a complete economic collapse while a senior UN official said that Kabul’s Taliban rulers had......
ISLAMABAD: Secretary General of the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) Deemah Al-Yahya on Thursday said the organisation would promote Pakistan as an attractive country for foreign investment in......
ISLAMABAD: A majority of labour unions decided on Thursday to form the Joint Forum for Common Cause and declared support for the countrywide long march planned by the Pakistan Federal Union of......
BERLIN: The head of Germany’s disease control agency has warned that the country faces a really terrible Christmas unless steps are taken to counter the sharp rise in coronavirus infections.German......
GWADAR: Thousands of people belonging to different segments of society took to the streets of Gwadar on Thursday, rallying against various issues ranging from the presence of large fishing trawlers......
WASHINGTON: China has drastically increased its influence in major global institutions over the past decade, and a Washington-based think tank on Thursday said this trend could call for......
WASHINGTON: Pfizer Inc said on Thursday the US government would pay $5.29 billion for 10 million courses of its experimental Covid anti-viral drug.The deal is for around twice as many treatment......
ISLAMABAD: As the arrival of winter has increased the rate of Covid-19 infections in several countries, Pakistan’s positivity rate, which remained less than one per cent for the past six days, went......
KARACHI: Auto financing reached Rs346 billion as of October 2021, showing a jump of 44 per cent year-on-year and 2.2pc on month-on-month, figures released by the State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday......
ISLAMABAD: The growth in Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) production slowed down to 1.19 per cent in September, which is the lowest in the current fiscal year, showed Pakistan Bureau of Statistics......
ISLAMABAD: The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will contribute $7 million to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) ongoing support for the Ehsaas......
KARACHI: The State Bank expressed serious concerns on Thursday over speculation by banks in the currency business, saying they were involved in the multibillion-rupee game.Banking sources said a......
SAMREEN Ijaz, studying in Class 8, joined the Noor Kubra Elementary School for girls in Muzaffargarh two years ago and what a relief it has been for her. “I don’t have to miss a single day of school......
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said the state and the government are not fully ready to fight extremism in the country.“Many people think that the remedial steps taken by us [the......
THE prompter of this column is my observation regarding the ubiquitous misunderstanding of the concept of universal health coverage. Whereas, UHC is central to the sustainable development agenda and......
ON Nov 17, representative democracy received a blow perhaps even more profound than has been witnessed over the last three years. The pandemonium that prevailed during the joint session of parliament......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended a decision by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to remand a defamation case against the ARY Network’s chief executive back to the trial court.On March......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties met on Thursday to discuss the option of challenging the recently-passed controversial law on the use of electronic voting machine (EVM) and introduction of I-voting......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday reviewed the Tax Laws (Third Amendment) Bill, 2021 and recommended with a majority vote a number of recommendations, including the one......
LAHORE: The country’s cotton production stood at 6.85 million bales as of Nov 15, a year-on-year growth of 70 per cent, according to the latest data issued by Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association......
ISLAMABAD: With shortage of natural gas estimated at 600 million cubic feet per day next month and 800mmcd in January, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) could not finalise gas load management......
NAROWAL: The chief minister of Indian Punjab, Charanjit Singh Channi, and his cabinet members on Thursday visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur and performed religious rituals.The high-level......
• Minister says commission free to choose machine • PML-N member points out flaws in billISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday appeared to be unsure about using......
THE prompter of this column is my observation regarding the ubiquitous misunderstanding of the concept of universal health coverage. Whereas, UHC is central to the sustainable development agenda and......
IT is 1971, the gilded heyday of Beirut. A young Pakistani student is over the moon. He has just arrived in Beirut to attend the prestigious American University of Beirut. Why shouldn’t he be? An......
SAMREEN Ijaz, studying in Class 8, joined the Noor Kubra Elementary School for girls in Muzaffargarh two years ago and what a relief it has been for her. “I don’t have to miss a single day of school......
The brother of Nazim Jokhio, who was allegedly murdered at a PPP lawmaker's farmhouse for resisting houbara bustard hunting by the legislator's Arab guests earlier this month, requested a judicial......
