President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday said that he was trying in his personal capacity to bring stakeholders together at one table and resolve their differences to reduce political polarisation in the......
Jubilant residents welcomed Ukrainian troops arriving in the centre of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion began in February.“Today......
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s visit to Pakistan has been postponed, the Foreign Office (FO) confirmed on Saturday.FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch confirmed the development to Dawn.com,......
Greg Barclay was on Saturday re-elected unopposed as independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after Zimbabwe’s Tavengwa Mukuhlani pulled out of contention.The former New......
The United States has returned 192 stolen antiquities — valued at nearly $3.4 million — to Pakistan after an investigation into an Indian-American art dealer, the Manhattan District Attorney’s (MDA)......
The T20 World Cup final contenders — Pakistan and England — are set to face off in the blockbuster game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomorrow, but there is a strong chance of rain playing a......
Start poor, end with a trophy — that is how Pakistan clinched its first World Cup victory in 1992. And now, more than three decades later, history seems to be repeating itself.The T20 World Cup 2022,......
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has clarified that he is “perfectly fine” after a photograph — purportedly from his hospital visit in Rawalpindi — went viral late Friday night.Various social media......
A Rawalpindi court handed down a death sentence and ten years of imprisonment on Saturday to the ex-husband of US national of Pakistani origin, Wajiha Swati, after finding him guilty in her murder......
Twitter Inc paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the "official" badge to some users of the......
The United States is happy for India to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wants, including at prices above a G7-imposed price cap mechanism, if it steers clear of Western insurance, finance......
Captain Babar Azam told his rejuvenated Pakistan side on Saturday to ride the wave of four consecutive victories and win the Twenty20 World Cup final.The 2009 champions suffered last-ball losses to......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s campaign at the IBSF World Snooker Championship ended on Friday when their last survivor Babar Masih fell prey to Malaysia’s Lim Kok Leong 5-3 in the semi-final in Antalya,......
KARACHI: Nearly three years after leading the line for Pakistan in their last outing, Hassan Bashir will once again adorn the captain’s arm-band when the national football team makes its......
LAHORE: Mubasir Khan’s fighting half-century and Umar Waheed’s stubborn knock helped Northern draw against Central Punjab who could not record their first victory while the match between Balochistan......
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli and skipper Rohit Sharma could be victims of wholesale change to India’s Twenty20 team after the catastrophic World Cup semi-final defeat to England.England romped to a......
BATTAGRAM: Battagram got the first-ever woman district police officer here on Friday.Sonia Shamroz, who earlier served as district police officer, Lower Chitral, was posted to Battagram.Ms Shamroz,......
HARIPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf provincial president Pervez Khattak on Friday said that only honest leadership could steer the country out of socioeconomic and governance crises.“A country cannot......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a cabinet committee for finalising recommendations on the Bhara Kahu bypass project, which would be presented before the federal cabinet for a......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday ruled that a civil servant cannot retain more than one official accommodation and directed the inspector general of police (IGP) Islamabad either......
LAHORE: Following a week-long controversy, Additional Inspector General of Police Ghulam Mahmood Dogar finally managed to get relief from the Federal Service Tribunal (FST), Islamabad, that allowed......
LAHORE: Security of former prime minister Imran Khan has been beefed up in the wake of an attempt on his life during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf long march around a week ago and after an alert......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Karman Khan Tessori on Friday called on former president Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House.“The Sindh governor inquired after the health of the former president,” said a brief......
KARACHI: Barrister Zahra S. Vayani has become the first Pakistani woman to be elected in the Bar Presentation Committee at Lincoln’s Inn for four years where she will represent Pakistan.Speaking to......
KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has claimed to have arrested four arms dealers allegedly involved in supply of arms to young people, criminals and terrorists in Karachi.CTD official......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange observed yet another positive session on Friday on the back of the news that the country will get a financial package from friendly countries.Arif Habib Ltd said......
KARACHI: Taking advantage of a clause in the controversial Sindh Local Government Act (SLGA) 2013, the Sindh government has itself postponed the local government election in Karachi division for 90......
FORMER US president Donald Trump took a thinly-veiled racist jab at a potential rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, his second attack on a prospective competitor in as many days,......
WASHINGTON: “Education is the first step towards empowerment,” says 21-year-old Alisha Khan, who was elected to the board of education in New Brunswick, a city in New Jersey. “I graduated from high......
KARACHI: A day after estranged PTI leader retired Major Khurram Hameed Khan Rokhri made revelations about “backchannel talks” between the PTI and the establishment, his party membership was......
LONDON: A UK High Court judge ordered Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son-in-law Imran Ali Yousaf to file a reply in a defamation suit they brought against the publisher of Mail On Sunday, and......
KARACHI: Malir’s former senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar has denied allegations of extrajudicially killing aspiring model, Naqeebullah Mehsud, and three other captives, alleging the......
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Climate Minister Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday said the United Nations’ ongoing climate change conference (COP27) must help unlock private and public financing for adaptation and......
SOMETHING strange, unsettling and heartbreaking is happening in the world. Unpleasantness does not diminish the reality; it makes it unpalatable, but even bitter truths must be acknowledged. The......
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday accused the two brothers who hosted Arshad Sharif in Kenya of being in cahoots with Kenyan police over the journalist’s murder.Speaking on the Geo Pakistan......
TOWARDS the end of World War II, the idea of ‘decolonisation’ with its attendant images of freedom fighters, ouster of the English colonisers and creation of independent nation states had echoed......
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: President Joe Biden vowed at UN climate talks on Friday that the United States was on track to slash its carbon emissions, urging all nations to ramp up their own efforts to avert......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Thursday abstained from voting on a UN General Assembly resolution that expressed deep concern over the volatility in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) judge has asked the chief justice to form a larger bench to decide two identical petitions concerning PTI chief Imran Khan’s disqualification by the Election......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday once again came under criticism in the National Assembly when the government informed lawmakers that it had no information about the setting up of model courts......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has changed the head and a member of the joint investigation team (JIT) a day after it constituted the body to probe the high-profile case of assassination attempt on......
SOMETHING strange, unsettling and heartbreaking is happening in the world. Unpleasantness does not diminish the reality; it makes it unpalatable, but even bitter truths must be acknowledged. The......
TOWARDS the end of World War II, the idea of ‘decolonisation’ with its attendant images of freedom fighters, ouster of the English colonisers and creation of independent nation states had echoed......
