Pope Francis condemned female genital mutilation and trafficking of women for prostitution on Sunday, calling them humiliating affronts to women's dignity and urging officials to do everything......
Chief Minister Balochistan Abdul Quddus Bizenjo on Sunday hailed security forces for repulsing terrorist attacks in Balochistan's Naushki and Panjgur areas earlier this week and killing terrorists......
Prime Minister Imran Khan met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, the final day of his four-day visit to the neighbouring country.According to a handout issued by the Foreign Office (FO), PM......
Qatar's emir met the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates during an official event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, in the first such interaction between the two Gulf leaders since four Arab......
Justin Langer told Cricket Australia (CA) that he quit as national team coach because he realised he no longer had the support of several players and board members, according to a report in The......
The government is going all out to promote tourism in northern Pakistan, positing it as the proverbial golden egg for impoverished communities. But as the events of Murree last month show,......
Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) near Dial road in Tank, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and killed a suicide bomber, according to a statement issued by the military's public......
ISLAMABAD: Though Pakistan has completed one year without a case of polio, health experts believe that the country cannot become polio free unless the virus is eradicated from Afghanistan as both......
BEIJING: Host nation China nabbed its first gold medal on Saturday as dazzling performances on snow and ice nudged the political drama that has dominated the Beijing Olympics toward the......
KARACHI: With ferocious hitters Asif Ali and Azam Khan present at the crease with Islamabad United needing 12 to win off the last over, it needed an extraordinary effort to hold them from the man......
RAWALPINDI: A team of Lahore Walled City Authority will refurbish over a century old Sujan Singh Haveli in collaboration with Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Rawalpindi.PHA Director General......
AMBOISE: Vandals in central France attacked a sculpture of an Algerian military hero who resisted France’s colonisation of the North African country, just hours before it was inaugurated on......
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organisation met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday for talks on Covid-19, including on the stalled investigation into the pandemic’s origins.WHO director......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court has ordered the demolition of over 35 wedding halls on Korangi Road as it held that these structures were built on the land meant for residential purposes.The apex court......
KARACHI: Erstwhile Askari Park has been named as Kashmir Park by Administrator Barrister Murtaza Wahab to pay homage to the people of India-held Kashmir for their struggle for right to......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was not experiencing severe symptoms.“After experiencing light symptoms, my wife and I tested......
NICE: The French government on Saturday forged ahead with efforts to reshape Islam in France and rid it of extremism, introducing a new body made up of clergy and laymen and women to help lead the......
ON the eve of being sworn in to the highest judicial office in Pakistan this week, Justice Umar Ata Bandial listed his two top priorities as the huge backlog of cases before the Supreme Court and......
Bollywood superstar singer Lata Mangeshkar, known to millions as the “nightingale of India” and a regular fixture of the country's airwaves for decades, died on Sunday at the age of 92.She passed......
Pakistan has transcended its initial fear of being reabsorbed by its giant neighbour, India. The fear was real because the creation of Pakistan was a messy affair. It happened suddenly and on some......
PAKISTAN is perhaps the first South Asian country which has now a comprehensive national security doctrine in documented form. The country’s friends and foes can interpret it in their own way and......
THAT the leadership of the PML-N and PPP have agreed to start over and cooperate in their efforts to dislodge the PTI government after months of mutual recriminations and squabbling is a significant......
KARACHI: Multan Sultans maintained their perfect record in the seventh edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League as they beat Peshawar Zalmi by 57 runs here at the National Stadium on Saturday.Zalmi......
SRINAGAR: A prominent journalist in Occupied Kashmir has been arrested by police and accused of “glorifying terrorism” and “spreading fake news” in the disputed region, where an ongoing press......
LAHORE: Government ministers took exception to a meeting between the PPP and PML-N’s top leadership on Saturday, asserting that the two parties would be held accountable for “looting public money......
• Shehbaz says PPP proposals to be presented before PDM • Zardari, Nawaz talk over phoneLAHORE: After almost a year of strained relations over the issue of en masse resignations from assemblies, the......
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON: The Biden administration has accepted the appointment of Sardar Masood Khan as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Foreign Office spokesman Asim Iftikhar said on......
MUZAFFARABAD: While renewing Pakistan’s moral, diplomatic and political support to the people of Occupied Kashmir, President Dr Arif Alvi said on Saturday that no power on the planet could stop the......
• Afghanistan mainstay of PM’s meetings with Chinese, Uzbek leadership • Karachi, Faisalabad projects feature in talks with investors • Meeting with Xi todayISLAMABAD / BEIJING: In wide-ranging talks......
PAKISTAN is perhaps the first South Asian country which has now a comprehensive national security doctrine in documented form. The country’s friends and foes can interpret it in their own way and......
