SRINAGAR: Police fired tear gas and used batons on Friday in India-held Kashmir to break up a protest against the killing of a Hindu allegedly by anti-India fighters.Clashes are frequent in the......
A protest was staged in Dera Bugti district's Pirkoh tehsil on Saturday over a lack of clean drinking water and alarming rise in the number of cholera cases, which according to a health official have......
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Saturday predicted that the prevailing heatwave in the country was likely to continue over the next week as well.Slight relief was expected in most......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will reveal his strategic plan, formulated in the PML-N's meetings with party supremo Nawaz Sharif in London, upon his return to the country from the United Arab......
• Claims to have ‘blocked’ numbers of those in establishment, says their differences based on issue of Buzdar, Faiz • Says ‘atomic bomb’ on Pakistan would be better than having ‘these criminals’ at......
CAN Imran Khan force early elections?This question will gain greater relevance this coming week when the PML-N-led government declares its intention to make that call, or opt to complete the......
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for Covid-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday.She will not be in parliament for the government's emissions......
Standing by the tiny grave of his five-year-old son in the Orthodox Christian cemetery of Schisto on the outskirts of Athens, Esfandiyar Fagkiri says he feels a “dual pain”.Not only has he lost one......
The UAE's long-time de facto ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected as president on Saturday, official media said, a day after the death of former leader Sheikh Khalifa.Sheikh Mohamed......
India banned wheat exports on Saturday, just days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year, as a scorching heatwave curtailed output and domestic prices soared to an all-time high.The......
The indictment of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case was delayed again on Saturday after the premier submitted an......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed journalist and political commentator Fahd Husain as his special assistant, it emerged on Saturday.The notification for Husain's appointment, a copy of......
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari vowed on Saturday that the government would not rest till it had given "exemplary punishment" to the perpetrators of the suicide attack inside Karachi......
KARACHI: The provincial government on Friday assigned premier security agencies the task to comb out those who are spreading ‘venomous material’ on social media and ‘brainwashing’ youngsters against......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) seventh edition added Rs2 billion to the country’s cricket board’s reserves, its spokesperson told reporters here on Friday.The edition, held earlier this......
MANSEHRA: Special adviser to the chief minister for information Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif has said the federal and Punjab governments are trying in vain to create a wheat flour crisis in Khyber......
KARACHI: Investigators probing the Thursday night improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Saddar area believed that a vehicle of the Pakistan Coast Guard (PCG) passing through the area at the......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazir Tarar on Friday hinted that the coalition government would complete its constitutional term and any decision on early election will be......
LAHORE: Following heatwave forecast by the meteorological department for the next week, the Punjab government on Friday put on alert all the relevant departments in the province, asking them to......
THATTA/LAHORE: Ten passengers suffered minor injuries as the Karachi-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed at Meting Railway Station on Friday evening. The locomotive and four bogies of the Rehman Baba......
ISLAMABAD: Former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser while expressing complete trust in the Supreme Court, which is seized with a case seeking to recall its setting aside of the April 3 ruling of......
SRINAGAR: Police fired tear gas and used batons on Friday in India-held Kashmir to break up a protest against the killing of a Hindu allegedly by anti-India fighters.Clashes are frequent in the......
ISLAMABAD: A United Nations commission has estimated that the intersection of aridity with projected temperature rise will result in increasing areas of concern for heatwaves in South and Southwest......
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Parvez Elahi has postponed the assembly session to May 30.The 40th session of the house had earlier been convened for April 28, but the speaker put it off minutes......
WANGELS: Europe pledged another half billion dollars in military support for Kyiv on Friday and Sweden edged closer to joining Nato as the war in Ukraine entered its 12th week.At a meeting of the......
TEHRAN: Soaring bread prices have triggered protests in Iran in which some shops were set on fire, prompting police to arrest scores of “provocateurs”, the official IRNA news agency said on......
CAN Imran Khan force early elections?This question will gain greater relevance this coming week when the PML-N-led government declares its intention to make that call, or opt to complete the......
NEW DELHI: Twenty-six people died on Friday in a fire that broke out in a four-storey building near a railway station in New Delhi’s western suburb.Over 50 people were rescued.Television footage......
KYIV: A Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine appeared in court in Kyiv on Friday ahead of the first war crimes trial since the start of the......
ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it was not possible for Nato-member Turkey to support plans by Sweden and Finland to join the pact given that the Nordic countries were “home to many......
Authorities stopped PTI members from making arrangements for a rally in Sialkot's CTI ground on Saturday morning, with DawnNewsTV reporting that law enforcement resorted to measures like tear gas and......
“If you leave Argentina and come back 20 days later … you will find everything is different. But if you come back after 20 years, you will find everything is the same.”THE quote above on Argentina......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister and insisted the president resign to take responsibility......
KARACHI: Investors’ confidence returned to the shares market on Friday on the back of record-high monthly remittances in April and the expected approval of up to $2 billion loan from the Asian......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday that large-scale manufacturing (LSM) grew 26.6 per cent year-on-year in March.Industrial production output not only rebounded but......
KARACHI: For the first time, remittances crossed the figure of $3 billion in a month, which gave hope that the country would achieve its annual remittance target of $30bn.The State Bank of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Lack of interest and absenteeism marred proceedings of the National Assembly on Friday, forcing Deputy Speaker Zahid Durrani to adjourn the sitting due to lack of quorum even without......
• Claims to have ‘blocked’ numbers of those in establishment, says their differences based on issue of Buzdar, Faiz • Says ‘atomic bomb’ on Pakistan would be better than having ‘these criminals’ at......
• Nation will be taken into confidence in next 48 hours • Insider says Nawaz opposed to fuel price riseLONDON: Issues and solutions discussed during a high-level meeting between PML-N leaders,......
“If you leave Argentina and come back 20 days later … you will find everything is different. But if you come back after 20 years, you will find everything is the same.”THE quote above on Argentina......
