Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the progress of Operation Raddul Fasaad and lauded the achievements made so far.According to a statement......
The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic nations is real, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday, with more than a thousand cases now confirmed in such countries.WHO......
A proposal to shut down markets at 8:30pm in an effort to conserve energy came under discussion on Wednesday during a meeting of the freshly reconstituted National Economic Council (NEC).Prime......
PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that he would be giving a date for the "biggest protest in Pakistan's history" within the next few days."We have to go all-in for......
West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran won the toss and opted to bat in the first day-night international against Pakistan in Multan on Wednesday.The tourists brought Romario Shepherd and Rovman Powell......
• Shehbaz stresses need for ‘Charter of Economy’ that can’t be changed on whims of future govts • ‘Bold decisions’ need of hour, PM calls on elite to make sacrifices • Miftah says govt determined to......
THERE was an element of inevitability about Imran Khan’s outburst against the security establishment. He feels dejected at being left midstream without the prop he had become so used to. He now......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed authorities to abolish all taxes on raw materials used in the export industry and form task forces to attract investment in multiple sectors.The......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday approved TikToker Nosheen Saeed alias Dolly's pre-arrest bail application in a case related to a forest fire at the Margalla Hills last month.Saeed, who......
The parents of Dua Zehra — the teenage girl who was reported missing from Karachi's Shah Faisal Colony on April 16 and was recovered from Bahawalnagar on June 5 — met their daughter today after the......
Police in northern India arrested a youth leader from the Hindu nationalist ruling party for posting anti-Muslim comments on social media after derogatory remarks by another party official about the......
Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur: Indonesia and Malaysia summoned India’s envoys on Tuesday to protest over derogatory remarks made about the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by two members of the Bharatiya......
At least 10 people were killed in central Iran on Wednesday as a train derailed near Tabas on the line between the cities of Mashhad and Yazd, state media reported."Ten people were killed and a......
At least 10 people were killed and 15 injured when a passenger van travelling on the Zhob National Highway in Balochistan plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine near Killa Saifullah on Wednesday......
After three straight days of ascent, the US dollar slid more than Rs2 in the interbank market on Wednesday morning.According to the Forex Association of Pakistan (FAP), the greenback was trading at......
LONDON: Veteran England seamer Stuart Broad has dismissed speculation of a rift with former Test captain Joe Root, saying that it would be “pathetic” if he were to fall out with him over being......
MULTAN: High-flying Pakistan have their eyes set on a clean sweep against an inexperienced West Indies side as the hosts look to boost their qualifying campaign for next year’s ICC World Cup with a......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday disposed of a petition seeking directives to the federal government to appoint Gilgit Baltistan (GB) speaker as acting governor of GB.The court,......
HARIPUR: Wildfires continued to consume plants and vegetation at mountains and forests in four different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday as firefighters scrambled to douse the flames.A......
ISLAMABAD: Fires broke out at five locations in the protected Margalla Hills National Park, with a huge fire erupting in a greenbelt near the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) on......
KARACHI: Perturbed at an alarming rise in the incidents of street crime in Karachi, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday directed the police authorities to devise a strong strategy to......
An experimental drug appeared to rid people of rectal cancer in an unprecedented study, according to The New York Times.A group comprising 18 patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for around six......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 163 Sikh pilgrims from India, who were issued visas by Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, will reach Pakistan on Wednesday (today) to attend an annual festival held to......
IT was a weekend of ‘jubilation’, crowed CNN as it described Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee last weekend. The highlight, limited by the aging queen’s mobility issues, was her appearance on the......
• PTI to hold intra-party election today • Hammad claims govt has no solution to fix economy • Gill asks Maryam to stop making fake audiosISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
THERE was an element of inevitability about Imran Khan’s outburst against the security establishment. He feels dejected at being left midstream without the prop he had become so used to. He now......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday approved the reconstitution of 13-member National Economic Council (NEC) — a constitutional body responsible for reviewing the country’s overall......
OUR political class’s strategic failures have once again brought us back to the days of relentless ‘load-shedding’. Yet, instead of making a sombre assessment of the failed policies that have brought......
BEIJING: Beijing on Tuesday accused Australia and Canada of “spreading disinformation” over allegedly dangerous manoeuvres by Chinese military pilots in international airspace.Canadian Prime Minister......
BRUSSELS: European officials on Tuesday agreed the text of a proposed EU law imposing a standard charger for smartphones, tablets and laptops sold in the bloc, in a blow to Apple.EU member states and......
JAIPUR: Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into.Kalu, Kamlesh and Mamta Meena were victims of a dispute......
Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur: Indonesia and Malaysia summoned India’s envoys on Tuesday to protest over derogatory remarks made about the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by two members of the Bharatiya......
VIENNA: The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the UN atomic energy watchdog to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency, two diplomats said on......
ANKARA: Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a call on Tuesday that his country would respond to moves aimed at disrupting stability in northern Syria, his......
GENEVA: An independent commission of inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council after last year’s Gaza conflict said Israel must do more than end the occupation of land Palestinians want for a......
WASHINGTON: Bipartisan negotiations in the US Senate on gun control legislation, following massacres at a Texas elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last month, will continue amid......
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party leader Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Tuesday to sort out his party’s differences with the PML-N over their ‘desired’ ministries in Punjab and devise a joint strategy......
• Shehbaz stresses need for ‘Charter of Economy’ that can’t be changed on whims of future govts • ‘Bold decisions’ need of hour, PM calls on elite to make sacrifices • Miftah says govt determined to......
KARACHI: Overall cement sales dropped by 16 per cent year-on-year to 3.32 million tonnes in May as political uncertainty and soaring prices of inputs slowed down the construction activities across......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is trying to remove the misunderstandings that have led to the suspension of shrimp exports to the United States, the country’s ambassador to the US Masood Khan said after......
While condemning two Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) officials for making derogatory remarks against Islam and the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), the US State Department on Tuesday also underlined the......
WASHINGTON: The global economy risks falling into a harmful period of 1970s-style “stagflation,” sparked chiefly by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the World Bank warned on Tuesday as it slashed its......
KARACHI: A range-bound trading session took place on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Tuesday owing to further devaluation of the rupee against the dollar along with rising investors’ concerns about......
ISLAMABAD: The K-Electric has sought about Rs4.86 per unit additional charges under monthly fuel cost adjustment (FCA) and Rs4.52 per unit under quarterly tariff adjustments (QTA) to mop up about......
OUR political class’s strategic failures have once again brought us back to the days of relentless ‘load-shedding’. Yet, instead of making a sombre assessment of the failed policies that have brought......
FIFTY years ago today, a South Vietnamese photographer employed by the Associated Press (AP) snapped a scene that helped to shift perceptions of the American crusade in Indochina, not least within......
IT was a weekend of ‘jubilation’, crowed CNN as it described Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee last weekend. The highlight, limited by the aging queen’s mobility issues, was her appearance on the......
