BA.5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally.According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) most recent report, it was......
Karachi police on Wednesday released MQM leader Babar Ghauri in a case pertaining to the facilitation of an alleged hate speech by Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain, defence counsel......
The global economic outlook has “darkened significantly” and could deteriorate further, the IMF’s managing director said Wednesday, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and the rapid inflation it has......
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said the summary to reduce prices of petroleum products had been sent to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for approval.Radio Pakistan quoted the minister as......
Conservative lawmakers will vote on Wednesday to narrow the field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister, in an increasingly fractious contest marked......
US lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a last-ditch bid to remain in power fuelled by a chaotic meeting with some......
The PTI on Wednesday filed a petition in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against “pre-poll rigging” ahead of the by-elections on 20 Punjab Assembly seats scheduled for July 17.The petition,......
KARACHI: Criticising PTI Chairman Imran Khan for opposing the free electricity scheme announced by Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz for lifeline consumers, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz......
Karachi is bracing for another spell of heavy monsoon showers and possible flooding after braving a deadly and destructive period of deluge during Eidul Azha, according to a Met Office forecast.The......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday paid tribute to Kashmiris on Youm-i-Shuhada-i-Kashmir (Kashmir Martyrs Day), saying they had kept the “flame of freedom” alive despite Indian aggression.It......
THE spectre of the Sri Lankan situation has come to haunt many a developing nation facing serious economic challenges. After an economic meltdown, the South Asian country is now witnessing the......
John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.Bolton made......
DADU: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has said that he sincerely wishes to see Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as prime minister in his lifetime.He said that when......
BANGKOK: Manchester United got their pre-season off to a flying start with a 4-0 rout of rivals Liverpool in Thailand on Tuesday, giving new manager Erik ten Hag a big boost in his first match in......
LONDON: Jasprit Bumrah routed the top order as India thrashed 50-over world champions England by 10 wickets in the first One-day International here at The Oval on Tuesday.Fast bowler Bumrah took a......
SHANGLA: Over 200 people of Shahpur were hospitalised with diarrhoea after they consumed contaminated water here on Tuesday.Alpuri tehsil chairman Waqar Ahmad Khan told this correspondent that the......
KARACHI: Spare a thought for those who live in hutments in Karachi. Think about those who, even on the second day of Eidul Azha, had to walk or ride a motorbike or catch a public transport bus (not......
GUJRAT: In an apparent bid to show unity among the PML-Q ranks and members of the Chaudhry family, PML-Q chief and former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain spent the first day of Eid at the......
KARACHI: Scenes of August 27, 2020, replayed in real time for the residents of Cantonment Board Clifton on Sunday night. Heavy rainfall led to complete chaos in the areas that fall under the......
WASHINGTON: The congressional committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol sought to draw connections on Tuesday between then-president Donald Trump’s closest allies and......
WASHINGTON: The cosmic cliffs of a stellar nursery, a quintet of galaxies bound in a celestial dance: the James Webb Space Telescope released its next wave of images on Tuesday, heralding a new era......
World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was worried that coronavirus case numbers were shooting up, putting more strain on health systems and workers.The number of......
BEIJING: Robot fish that “eat” microplastics may one day help to clean up the world’s polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China.Soft to touch and......
KYIV: Kyiv said on Tuesday it had launched artillery barrages that a destroyed a Russian arms depot and carried out a “special operation” to free military captives in the Moscow-controlled Kherson......
WIRED’s Steven Levy, one of the finest writers to bless the world of tech journalism, wrote last week about how the phrase “Gradually and then suddenly” from an Ernest Hemmingway novel has gone viral......
LONDON: Former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday his campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister would avoid any attempt to “demonise” Boris Johnson, despite having helped trigger his......
Last week has been a mixed blessing for Pakistan as far as its water supplies are concerned. Within the week, the country came out of severe shortages of over 50 per cent, which had assumed......
According to a recent liquefied natural gas (LNG) report (2020-21) published by the State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan has a 15-year take-or-pay contract with Qatar as well as some private suppliers in......
How does artificially keeping the petrol prices at Rs150 per litre affect our economy? Let’s break it down into the simplest of terms.Pakistan doesn’t have oil wells so obviously it has to import. At......
NEW YORK: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal urged the UN on Tuesday to “champion” the issue of Ukraine-Russia war to protect the developing countries, including......
LAHORE: The Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul freight train operation, which has been resumed in December 2021 after a pause of around a decade, appears to be slowing down as none of the exporters has so far......
IT happens every year. This time too, after a spate of truly devastating heat, the rains came, and just as the rains came, Karachi was inundated.As the sheets of rain pelted the thirsty city, the......
KARACHI: Millions of Pakistanis were left cashless during the Eidul Azha holidays as thousands of automated teller machines (ATMs) across the country ran out of cash.Banks were closed from July 9-12,......
THE spectre of the Sri Lankan situation has come to haunt many a developing nation facing serious economic challenges. After an economic meltdown, the South Asian country is now witnessing the......
LONDON: The euro struck parity with the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years on Tuesday as a cut in Russian gas supplies to Europe heightened fears of a recession in the eurozone.The European......
KARACHI: Bahrain-based Rain Financial, a trading platform for cryptocurrencies, is persuading local regulators to issue a legal framework for the formalisation of crypto trading in Pakistan.Speaking......
KARACHI: Pakistan could face a serious problem as its foreign exchange reserves fast depleting amid rising external debt servicing.The country’s external debt servicing rose to $10.886 billion in the......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan urged the international community on Tuesday to evolve a financing mechanism to offset the high energy prices for the most severely affected countries.Speaking at an......
AMSTERDAM: It was 10:30pm on a Friday when Arthur Brand got the delivery he was nervously expecting.His doorbell rang, and when he opened the door no one was there. Instead, a cardboard box was......
LAHORE: Alarmed by the ‘weak’ position of some of its candidates, the PML-N leadership has ‘sacrificed’ two more ministers to boost the party’s campaign for the July 17 by-polls on 20 seats of the......
DYNASTIC politics curbs merit in politics. Yet it exists even in the West, China and Japan. Its strength varies. In its mild, most common form, many scions of a family win elections despite......
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country for the Maldives on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a......
KARACHI: Criticising PTI Chairman Imran Khan for opposing the free electricity scheme announced by Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz for lifeline consumers, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday warned the ‘powers that be’ that the only way to get out of the quagmire that the alleged US conspiracy against his government......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sought a summary from finance and petroleum ministries to suggest a reduction in petroleum prices in the wake of falling global crude oil rates and a few......
• 10 killed in rain-related accidents in Karachi, six each in KP and Balochistan, five in GB • PM orders NDMA, provincial authorities to prepare for next spell; Met Office warns of more rain on the......
