Israel on Tuesday announced the completion of a barrier along the Gaza border, described as an “iron wall” equipped with underground sensors, radars and cameras to curb threats.Israel has maintained......
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held two hours of virtual talks on Ukraine and other disputes on Tuesday amid Western fears that Moscow is poised to invade its southern......
Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry appreciated on Tuesday PML-N leaders Hamza Shehbaz and Maryam Nawaz singing at a wedding event of the latter's son, Junaid Safdar, in Lahore and......
Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary......
The counsel for former Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Constitution required that an inquiry be conducted into the allegations levelled......
Police have arrested five men on charges of assaulting, stripping and filming four women in Faisalabad's Bawa Chak Market on Monday.Confirming the arrests, Faisalabad City Police Officer (CPO) Dr......
Angela Merkel was assured of a place in the history books as soon as she became Germany’s first female chancellor on November 22, 2005.Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising Germany’s......
New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of becoming the largest place in the United States to give noncitizens the right to vote in local elections.Legally documented, voting-age......
Karachi police on Tuesday arrested a constable and his friend for allegedly shooting to death a college student and injuring another in what the police had initially claimed as an encounter in Orangi......
Clerics from various schools of thought on Tuesday unanimously condemned the brutal lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot, calling it "un-islamic" and "extrajudicial" as they......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday resumed hearing a contempt of court case against former chief justice of Gilgit-Baltistan Rana Shamim and others over an investigative report that......
The Prime Minister's Office is to hold a condolence reference today for Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara, who was lynched to death by a mob in Sialkot last week.A mob comprising hundreds of......
ISLAMABAD: A high-level trade delegation from Sri Lanka, led by Sri Lankan Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardhana, will be visiting Pakistan by the end of this month to help explore business......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Monday approved the Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace (Amendment) Bill 2021, suggesting stricter punishments to the......
ISLAMABAD: Plastic will be used to construct roads in the federal capital and other cities as this concept is environment-friendly.Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Monday while inaugurating......
LAHORE: Reigniting its rivalry with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz seems to have started paying the Pakistan Peoples Party dividends as the voters who had abandoned the PPP for reconciling with the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Senator Ejaz Chaudhry has told Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry that ‘abusing or accusing me’ over the issue of meeting with the Tehreek-i-Labbaik......
Play finally resumed on day four of the second Bangladesh-Pakistan Test on Tuesday after rain triggered by a weakened cyclone.Only 63.2 overs of play were possible over the first two days and the......
GUJRAT: Slain textile engineer Priyantha Kumara had helped raise over 10,000 skilled human resource for the garments industry during his last nine years stay in Sialkot.Since police have reportedly......
LONDON: Barcelona’s first Champions League campaign without Lionel Messi in nearly two decades may come to an end in the group stage if they don’t find a way to beat Bayern Munich on Wednesday.It......
KARACHI: Scores of nurses were thrashed, baton-charged and briefly detained by the police when they tried to march on the Chief Minister House on Monday, officials said.The protesting nurses have......
• PTI, MQM-P, GDA warn of protest movement • JI, ANP invited to Muttahida’s MPC on 11th • Stakeholders’ conference by PTI on 12thKARACHI: The joint opposition in the Sindh Assembly on Monday ruled......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Monday remanded Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani in judicial custody in a reference pertaining to allegedly possessing Rs1.61 billion unlawful assets.On......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued a notice to Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Khan Gandapur for violating the code of conduct for the......
PESHAWAR: Provincial Election Commissioner (PEC) Sharifullah on Monday accepted the nomination papers of adviser to the prime minister on finance and revenue Shaukat Tarin and three opposition......
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta chief reduced the prison sentence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to two years on Monday, soon after she was jailed for four years for incitement against the military and......
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Monday as thousands of protesters rallied against the military-dominated government near the presidential palace in Khartoum, witnesses said.The......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday apprised the president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and UN secretary general of the continuing grave situation in occupied......
DOHA: Turkey and Qatar on Monday raised the possibility of jointly operating Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled airport, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off for two days of talks in Doha.“We ......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Monday indefinitely postponing the international recognition of Afghanistan’s Taliban and Myanmar’s military junta, which......
NEW DELHI: A top elected official in India’s northeast region called on Monday for the withdrawal of emergency powers granted to Indian troops, a day after soldiers killed over a dozen civilians,......
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor on Monday defended omitting the United States from a probe in Afghanistan, saying the “worst crimes” were committed by the Taliban and the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking placement of former chief justice of Gilgit-Baltistan Rana Mohammad Shamim’s name on the Exit Control List (ECL).The......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Industries and Production Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar on Monday shared Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision to make the country an economic hub during a meeting with a......
KARACHI: Trading on the stock exchange remained lacklustre on Monday as investors chose to stay on the sidelines amid concerns over a rising trade deficit, higher inflation and likely monetary......
QUETTA: The Balochistan cabinet in a marathon session on Monday discussed a 21-point agenda and took several decisions on important matters, including release of Rs182 billion to the Frontier Works......
KARACHI: Chinese Consul General Li Bijian on Monday said that most of the projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been completed while Gwadar has become more important in the......
ISLAMABAD: South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics has operationalised its first TV line-up plant in collaboration with a local firm in Karachi, Commerce Adviser Razak Dawood announced on......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Monday ordered withdrawal of 100-700 per cent increase in valuation of immovable properties in the country’s 40 urban centres for the purpose of tax collection......
WASHINGTON: Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai urged the United States on Monday to do more to support Afghan women and girls and to ensure their right to education and work.Ms Yousafzai made the plea......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan kicked off what he called the country’s biggest sports gala — Kamyab Jawan Sports Drive — on Monday and said that the government had disbursed Rs47 billion in......
THERE was a time in the 1980s and 1990s, one can recall, when the official spokesmen for the Indian and Pakistani governments would cite Amnesty International’s reports to snipe at each other for......
AT a time when millions worldwide are consumed with anger and despair over the barbaric lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot, Federal Minister Pervez Khattak has uttered words which can only......
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — VoltaireIS there anything left to say about Sialkot? Condemn it more? Express outrage even more loudly? Use more......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to continue to proceed on the application seeking Senator Faisal Vawda’s disqualification, after a lawyer......
• Parliamentary panel briefed on security policy • Senate committee seeks legislation to check misuse of blasphemy lawsISLAMABAD: Political and military leadership on Monday decided that the......
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — VoltaireIS there anything left to say about Sialkot? Condemn it more? Express outrage even more loudly? Use more......
THERE was a time in the 1980s and 1990s, one can recall, when the official spokesmen for the Indian and Pakistani governments would cite Amnesty International’s reports to snipe at each other for......
AT a time when millions worldwide are consumed with anger and despair over the barbaric lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot, Federal Minister Pervez Khattak has uttered words which can only......
Even though the PPP was the runner up in Sunday’s by-election for Lahore's NA-133 constituency, it was in celebration mode on Monday over a significantly improved performance compared to the previous......
