The government has raised the price of petrol by around Rs3 per litre, according to a notification issued by the Finance Division late on Saturday night.According to the notification, the price of......
The founder of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton, who had predicted a genocide in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994 has warned of an impending genocide of Muslims in India, comparing the......
India's Virat Kohli has stepped down as captain of the Test side following their 2-1 series defeat by South Africa, the player said in a statement on Saturday.“It's been seven years of hard work,......
England fought back to take three Australian wickets in the final session but still trail by 152 runs at the end of day two of the fifth and final Ashes Test in Hobart on Saturday.After conceding a......
Just over a year ago, millions of energised young people, women, voters of colour and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House. But 12 months into his presidency, many describe......
China reaffirmed its opposition to unilateral sanctions by the United States against Iran as the Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers announced the launch of a 25-year cooperation agreement aimed at......
Australia returned Novak Djokovic to detention on Saturday, saying the tennis star's opposition to vaccination could cause “civil unrest” and trigger a high-profile court showdown.Having once failed......
Indian captain Virat Kohli said on Friday his side have “moved on” from the controversy over an overturned decision during the third Test defeat to South Africa, to lose the series 2-1, at......
The Sindh government on Saturday decided that schools across the province will remain open even as the Omicron-driven fifth wave of Covid-19 spreads at an alarming rate.The decision to continue......
A DAWN article on Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011) threw me back 50 years when I, along with 600 other students had packed 26-100 (MIT’s largest lecture hall) to hear him speak. Being clueless of the......
PESHAWAR: Poor attendance marred the proceedings of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday forcing the chair to adjourn the session until Monday as the agenda for the day remained unfinished.After......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate has summoned singer Meesha Shafi and five others through bailable arrest warrants in a case registered under the cybercrime law by actor-cum-singer Ali Zafar on charges......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami and the provincial government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday held first round of talks over the controversial Sindh Local Government Act 2021.The two sides......
KARACHI: With the city’s contribution in the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country continued to increase — from 66 per cent to almost 80pc in a single day — provincial authorities on Friday......
LAHORE: Adviser to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar has claimed opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif’s own family does not consider him a “front runner” in politics.On the......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate has summoned singer Meesha Shafi and five others through bailable arrest warrants in a case registered under the cybercrime law by actor-cum-singer Ali Zafar on charges......
• Rain, snow spell expected from Tuesday • Probe committee expected to submit report to CM by Sunday • Traders to protest against curtailing of commercial activities in hill stationRAWALPINDI: As......
LILLE: One man has died and about 30 other people have been rescued in the Channel after their boat ran into difficulties while trying to cross from northern France to Britain on Friday, prosecutors......
BREST: EU foreign ministers on Friday warned Russia of a “robust” response, fearing that a cyberattack against Ukraine could prepare the ground for military action by Moscow against its......
BEIJING: China on Friday dismissed a rare public warning by British security services that a suspected Chinese agent was trying to influence lawmakers, saying it was the result of watching “too many......
KABUL: The Taliban on Friday urged Washington to heed a call by the United Nations chief to unlock Afghan funds frozen in the United States, as a humanitarian crisis deepens.US authorities froze......
LONDON: The UK government on Friday apologised to Queen Elizabeth II, after revelations Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff broke coronavirus restrictions by partying on the eve of Prince Philip’s......
KARACHI: With $2.5 billion of inflows in December 2021, monthly remittances from overseas workers stayed above the $2bn mark for the seventh straight month, according to the data released by the......
KINGSTON: Harry Tector's unbeaten 54 helped Ireland to a five-wicket win over the West Indies in a rain-affected second One-day International at Sabina Park on Thursday to set up a series decider......
LIVERPOOL: If Granit Xhaka getting sent off came as no real surprise, Arsenal holding out with 10 men at Anfield certainly was a shock.Liverpool failed to take advantage of Xhaka’s 24th-minute red......
ISLAMABAD: Tensions remained high in the Senate on Friday after the controversial ‘mini-budget’ and other bills were bulldozed through the National Assembly, and opposition leaders traded barbs with......
MANY in the PTI government must have swallowed their pride to get the two controversial bills — one withdrawing tax exemptions worth Rs343bn, and the other granting the SBP complete autonomy — passed......
NUMBERS never lie. Till they do.The PTI government is celebrating the passage of the mini-budget. Except, it is not. Some had billed the vote on the mini-budget as an existential issue for the......
A DAWN article on Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011) threw me back 50 years when I, along with 600 other students had packed 26-100 (MIT’s largest lecture hall) to hear him speak. Being clueless of the......
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday claimed that the government had passed the most controversial bill regarding autonomy of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) with the help of......
MELBOURNE: Australia said on Friday it will detain Novak Djokovic this weekend after again stripping him of his visa, in a dramatic setback to the tennis world number one’s goal of winning a record......
UNITED NATIONS: As Pakistan assumed the chair of the Group of 77 on Friday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi urged the international community to help developing countries recover from the......
LONDON: Muhammad Gohir Khan made multiple attempts to reach Rotterdam, and even bought a paring knife during his visit to the Netherlands as he scouted the home and location of exiled blogger Ahmad......
ISLAMABAD: Amid spiralling inflation and a significant rise in the cost of living for nearly all Pakistanis, it is perhaps fitting that the country’s first-ever national security policy acknowledges......
LAHORE: The specialised healthcare and medical education department on Friday constituted a nine-member special medical board to examine the documents submitted as medical reports of former prime......
ISLAMABAD: A day after Defence Minister Pervez Khattak adopted a defiant stance in the face of Prime Minister Imran Khan, another Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader assailed the government on the......
