Three police personnel were gunned down by unidentified individuals in Nowshera district’s Akora Khattak on Saturday, according to police and rescue officials.“Three policemen died in the attack,”......
Brazilian soccer legend Pele is receiving palliative care after chemotherapy stopped having the expected results as he battles colon cancer, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Saturday.Pele, 82,......
Newly appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Syed Asim Munir on Saturday hit back at “highly irresponsible statements” from Indian officials about Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir,......
PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday penned a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, asking him to conduct an independent judicial inquiry into the murder of journalist Arshad......
President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday hailed Iran’s Islamic Republic as a guarantor of rights and freedoms, defending the ruling system amid a crackdown on anti-government protests that the United......
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) board has approved the inclusion of the transgender community as beneficiaries of the Benazir Kafalat Programme (BKP), it emerged on Friday.In the 56th......
When is it and is not it acceptable to display a political banner at the World Cup in Qatar? The answer seems to depend largely on the political message, with fans criticising what they see as......
PML-N leaders Rana Sanaullah and Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Saturday that “talks don’t come with conditions” as they responded to PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s “one demand” for talks between the......
Former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser has said the then-PTI government’s decision to extend the tenure of ex-chief of army staff retired Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa in 2019 was the “wrong decision”,......
Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Muhammad Sadiq on Saturday asked the Afghan government to “beef up the security of our embassy and its personnel”.The demand comes a day after the......
Prince William greeted US President Joe Biden at Boston’s waterfront on Friday, the final day of a visit by British royals trying to focus attention on tackling environmental issues.William and his......
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday that the recent claims by PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi — about former army chief retired General Qamar Javed Bajwa advising his party to side with PTI......
The United States on Friday unveiled the B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board.The slickly......
LAHORE: Hinting at ordering the closure of schools for three days and work from home for two days in a week, the Lahore High Court on Friday sought suggestions from the Punjab government to control......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously condemned the killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya, urging the provincial government to approach the centre for conducting an......
THE South Korean players sank to the turf. What a time it was to be alive for them. On another night of nerve-wracking drama, they had done it, manufacturing a victory when all seemed lost.Hwang Hee......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday came down hard on the provincial authorities and traffic police for not implementing a 2007 order of the Supreme Court regarding plying of heavy traffic in the......
KARACHI: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Waqar Mehdi is set to be elected unopposed as member of the Senate after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) announced that it would......
DOHA: The Netherlands will not underestimate the United States when they meet in the World Cup last 16 this weekend, manager Louis van Gaal told a media conference on Friday that had almost as many......
LONDON: He was born not long after Napoleon died, and is now officially the planet’s oldest known living land animal.Jonathan the Seychelles Giant Tortoise is celebrating his 190th birthday — more or......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan may pull out of the 2023 Asia Cup if the country is stripped of the tournament’s hosting rights, its cricket chief Ramiz Raja said on Friday.Doubts were raised over Pakistan’s......
MANSEHRA: Special assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister on information Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif on Friday said that Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi was uncertain about his......
SWABI: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal on Friday asked the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to make a ‘positive U-turn’ and return to parliament.He was addressing a......
LAHORE: The Privileges Committee of the Punjab Assembly was irked on Friday by the absence of Atauallah Tarar, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, and special adviser to the prime minister......
LAHORE: The city traffic police has come up with different initiatives to tighten the noose around the violators following the reports that the registered number of vehicles has swelled to 7 million......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure were “inevitable” as the Kremlin rejected US President Joe Biden’s terms for talks and warned the assault......
BRUSSELS: China’s President Xi Jinping suggested in talks with EU chief Charles Michel that the spread of the less lethal Omicron strain of Covid-19 may allow Beijing to ease lockdown rules, European......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday extended the stay against construction of Bhara Kahu bypass on Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU)’s land till Dec 6 and asked the counsel of the......
KYIV: Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid received a parcel containing animal eyes on Friday, the latest in a series of similar “bloody packages” sent to its diplomatic missions across Europe, Ukrainian and......
RAMALLAH: An Israeli officer shot dead a Palestinian suspected of preparing an attack in the occupied West Bank on Friday, an incident which the Palestinians denounced as an execution.The man had......
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan Governor Jameel Ahmed has said that the banks must ensure that financial innovation is customer-centric, which results in faster, safer and cheaper access to financial......
KARACHI: The stock market observed a negative session on Friday owing to the continuous political unrest that kept investors away.Arif Habib Ltd said bears took charge of the trading floor and drove......
ISLAMABAD: A day after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah claimed the parliament had authorised military leadership to hold talks with outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), lawmakers from within......
ISLAMABAD: At a time when the country is facing serious challenges — rise in terror attacks and a worsening economic crisis — lawmakers on Friday once again deliberated upon Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam......
ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), posted a decline of 0.16 per cent for the combined income group on a week-on-week basis ending Dec 1, mainly due to a......
KARACHI: Pakistan should seek the restructuring of entire dollar-denominated debt worth around $99 billion, said former finance minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday.Addressing a press conference, he said......
ISLAMABAD: Dr Asad Majeed Khan, a career Foreign Service officer, was on Friday appointed as the country’s 31st foreign secretary.“Dr Asad Majeed Khan … is transferred and posted as Secretary,......
ISLAMABAD: While the country’s normal development programme has slowed down with fiscal constraints, the government has accelerated spending on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — a portfolio of......
A JUDGE is not a king. While kings may also be judges in monarchies, this is not and cannot be true for democracies. Democracies can’t afford to have kings, much less in the garb of judges. Our......
MUZAFFARABAD: More than one million voters in Poonch division will exercise their right to franchise on Saturday in the second leg of local government (LG) elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)......
• IHC reserves decision on PTI senator’s plea against shifting him to other provinces • Lawmaker scheduled to appear before court tomorrow • Imran takes issue with Swati’s transferRAWALPINDI /......
CONTRARY to the parliamentary calendar of the legislature, the Punjab provincial assembly has been continuously in session for the last seven months. Although divided into three sessions — the 40th,......
KARACHI: After the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) vowed to carry out attacks all over the country, Pakistan on Friday said it was hopeful that Afghanistan would live up to the promise of......
WASHINGTON: Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, the commander of the US Central Command (Centcom), conducted a video teleconference on Friday with Pakistan’s new army chief Gen Syed Asim Munir, and the two......
WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday placed Pakistan on a list of countries that “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom” during 2022.“Around the world,......
VINCENT Aboubakar scored with a stunning header before he was sent off as Cameroon grabbed a famous 1-0 win over Brazil on Friday night but wasn’t enough to prolong their journey at the World Cup in......
UNITED NATIONS: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is coming to New York next week to attend several events at the UN headquarters as Pakistan hands over the chair of the Group of 77 to......
PARIS: Women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, in what a rights group called a “rare” move in the staunchly conservative......
ISLAMABAD: A federal government counsel wondered on Friday how many times the Supreme Court would allow PTI chief Imran Khan to make incorrect statements before issuing a show-cause notice for......
ISLAMABAD: In response to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s latest offer of talks, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz — a major partner in the coalition government — refused to budge......
CONTRARY to the parliamentary calendar of the legislature, the Punjab provincial assembly has been continuously in session for the last seven months. Although divided into three sessions — the 40th,......
BANGABANDHU Sheikh Mujibur Rahman envisioned Bangladesh’s foreign policy to be predicated on the principle of ‘friendship to all, and malice towards none’. His daughter, Sheikh Hasina, the present......
