A number of eminent Muslim scholars on Sunday stressed the need to tackle issues emanating from globalisation and a plethora of untamed information on the internet through proper guidance of the......
US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky are due to speak by phone on Sunday amid growing fears that a Russian military buildup near the border with its pro-Western......
Florida business owner Robert Palmer cheered on the violence at the US Capitol on January 6 before he joined the fray. Screaming obscenities, he hurled a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at......
A team of Afghan intelligence agents poured around 3,000 litres of liquor into a canal in Kabul, the country's spy agency said on Sunday, as the new Taliban authorities crack down on the sale of......
Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday termed the recent amendments to the Sindh local government law "a danger to Pakistan", saying it divested the......
Firefighters battled a major blaze at South Africa's parliament complex on Sunday that sent a dark plume of smoke and flames into the air above the centre of Cape Town and caused some ceilings of the......
Israel's military said early on Sunday it launched strikes against "militant targets" in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory.Video filmed in Khan Younis,......
Indian captain Virat Kohli has every reason to be confident his team can seal an historic Test series win in South Africa when they face the hosts in the second Test at the Wanderers Stadium on......
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that the government has instructed the attorney general to ask the Lahore High Court (LHC) to either bring back PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif or take......
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted "widespread rain and thunderstorms" in Karachi and other parts of Sindh between Jan 4 (Tuesday) and 7 (Friday) under a new weather system......
WAS 2021 an extraordinary year marked by watershed moments and landmark developments or just an exceedingly ordinary 12 months with an abundant supply of more of the same in a seemingly endless......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was given an approval by the government on Friday for the construction of a brand new cricket stadium in Islamabad by 2025.The decision was taken in a meeting......
SYDNEY: England’s young batters have been given a “wake-up call” by Australia in the Ashes series and must use it to kick-start their careers, assistant coach Graham Thorpe said.England find......
SYDNEY: While Usman Khawaja is ready to fill in for Travis Head in the fourth Ashes Test against England, the veteran Australia batsman hopes his would not be a stop-gap role this year.Head will miss......
KARACHI: Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had formed a joint investigation team to probe into the murder of young Nazim Jokhio.He......
KARACHI: The loss of livelihood and absence of life’s basic amenities have pushed fishermen communities along Sindh’s coast into extreme poverty. There is a dire need to build their capacity and......
TIMES SQUARE, New York: About 15,000 revelers stood shoulder to shoulder as New York resumed its ritual of welcoming the new year with a ball-drop.A 6-ton ball, encrusted with nearly 2,700 crystals,......
BAGHDAD: Thousands of supporters of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi alliance of armed groups on Saturday marked the second anniversary of the killing of a revered Iranian commander and his Iraqi lieutenant......
PARIS: A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry.Environmentalists have long......
KARACHI: Finance Ministry spokesperson Muzzammil Aslam took exception to the term “mini-budget” for describing the Finance (Supplementary) Bill 2021, saying the legislative move is aimed at fixing......
KARACHI: Commodity producers across Pakistan will soon be able to directly sell their merchandise globally and receive payments promptly without having to register as exporters.Speaking to Dawn,......
THE National Assembly session was prorogued on Friday for an indefinite period without passing the crucial finance bill that is a requirement for Pakistan to re-enter the IMF programme. The Fund’s......
AS Pakistan approaches the prospect of appointing its first female judge to the Supreme Court, its lawyers are up in arms again.After the Judicial Commission of Pakistan was tied in its last meeting......
THIS week the Senate of Pakistan debated and deferred a proposed bill seeking to decriminalise suicide attempts. The bill recommended that Section 325 in the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, and the Code......
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Ansar Abbasi filed an application before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday seeking the modification of an order passed in connection with the contempt of court......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa said farewell on Saturday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with glowing tributes......
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the idea of granting Pakistani citizenship to investors from Afghanistan alone, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that such a policy should not be limited to any single......
LAHORE: Former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) chief Bashir Memon on Saturday appeared before an inquiry team for allegedly facilitating a suspect wanted in financial crimes abroad and also for......
ISLAMABAD: As local transmission of the most transmissible variant of Covid-19, Omicron, is now being reported from all across the country, Pakistan’s positivity rate remained over 1 per cent for......
ISLAMABAD: The government looks all set to convene a session of the Senate next week to formally lay before it the controversial Finance Supplementary Bill 2021— generally known as the mini-budget......
THIS week the Senate of Pakistan debated and deferred a proposed bill seeking to decriminalise suicide attempts. The bill recommended that Section 325 in the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, and the Code......
WAS 2021 an extraordinary year marked by watershed moments and landmark developments or just an exceedingly ordinary 12 months with an abundant supply of more of the same in a seemingly endless......
LAHORE: Former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) chief Bashir Memon on Saturday appeared before an inquiry team for allegedly facilitating a suspect wanted in financial crimes abroad and also for......
