Prime Minister Imran Khan visited the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Secretariat in Islamabad on Wednesday where a comprehensive briefing followed by a discussion on national security and regional......
Islamabad police on Wednesday dropped Test cricketer Yasir Shah's name from the first information report (FIR) of a rape case, saying the complainant had withdrawn her allegations against him.Last......
Parliamentary Secretary for Law Maleeka Bokhari on Wednesday said the state would pursue the Islamabad couple harassment case "irrespective of recent developments relating to victim's......
Police on Wednesday baton-charged protesting doctors in Quetta and arrested more than a dozen after they marched towards the city’s Red Zone where staging rallies and protest sit-ins is banned.The......
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lashed out at the PTI government in the National Assembly on Wednesday, saying it was bringing a "tsunami of taxes" through the mini-budget.The burden of the......
ISLAMABAD: Days after it declared two Pakistan Navy projects built on protected land illegal, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday directed civic agencies to seal the sprawling naval golf course......
Pakistan on Wednesday reported over 2,000 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours in the highest daily tally since September 23 as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread across the......
Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic on Wednesday admitted meeting a journalist when he knew he had Covid-19, describing it as an “error of judgement”.Djokovic also conceded he submitted a false......
RAWALPINDI: The five-member committee formed to probe the Murree tragedy will visit the hill station on Wednesday (today) to determine the causes and lapses that led to the deaths of over 20 stranded......
BEIJING: Despite Omicron concerns, Beijing will not adjust its Covid-19 prevention measures for the Winter Olympics unless there are many cases inside the “closed-loop”, Huang Chun, an official with......
LARKANA: A team of the provincial wildlife department on Tuesday safely rescued a third of the five blind dolphins that had reportedly gone astray from Indus River into Dadu canal. It was immediately......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan here on Tuesday directed the quarters concerned to prepare a regular monthly report regarding prices of food items across the province and......
KARACHI: With more than 40 per cent population still waiting for their first dose of vaccine, Karachi reported the highest ever daily count of confirmed Covid-19 cases during the past five months,......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN and partners launched their largest ever country-specific appeal for Afghanistan on Tuesday as Pakistan called for the revival of banking systems in the war-torn......
WASHINGTON: Global growth will “decelerate markedly” this year, but the Omicron variant of Covid-19 that is spreading rapidly worldwide could make the situation worse and exacerbate labor shortages......
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday faced a furious backlash over new claims of a breach of coronavirus restrictions by his team on top of a slew of recent scandals.London’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted for hearing a set of appeals by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government seeking to enhance the sentences of the convicts involved in the 2017 lynching of......
KARACHI: The stock market remained volatile on Tuesday owing to a rapid surge in the number of Covid-19 cases, according to Arif Habib Ltd.The positivity rate in the past 10 days jumped from 1.08 per......
LAHORE/MANSEHRA: In a major development, a grand jirga constituted by the district administrations of Kohistan and Diamer on Tuesday settled the boundary dispute between Thor and Harban tribes of......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has submitted its ‘note of dissent’ to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue over rushing through the State Bank of......
KARACHI: Generally known for profit making, sugar sector has emerged with the biggest infection ratio of banking loans during the third quarter of the calendar year 2021.The State Bank’s Statistical......
ISLAMABAD: With a promise to seek tax exemption on infant milk and bread from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government on Tuesday approved 99 paisa per unit cut in average power tariff......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday introduced five bills in the National Assembly, including the one seeking to regulate the system of moon-sighting and empowering the ruet hilal committee in an......
LAST month, when Lahore was once again declared the most polluted city in the world, no one batted an eyelid. Overseas Pakistanis, eager to flaunt their wealth at family weddings, arrived en masse......
BEIJING: Afghanistan’s ambassador to China, Javid Ahmad Qaem, left his post earlier in January after months without pay from Kabul following the Taliban’s seizure of power, he said on Twitter.In a......
WASHINGTON: Dow graduate Dr Mohammad Mohiuddin’s groundbreaking research led to the first pig-to-human heart transplant in history and the heart is now beating normally in the body of a 57-year-old......
LAST month the civil and military leadership approved what is being described as the country’s first integrated National Security Policy. The document that is yet to be made public reportedly sets......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over operational preparedness of the army’s formations.He made these remarks while chairing the 246th Corps Commanders’......
WATCHING a human tragedy become subsumed in a political blame game is always painful. This is exactly what happened in the National Assembly on Monday when the lawmakers decided to debate the causes......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed fears on Tuesday that the government would have to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again if the country’s exports did not increase......
Fifteen hotels in Murree were sealed on Tuesday for overcharging citizens, according to a statement issued by a spokesperson for the Rawalpindi district administration.The statement said the action......
