Data from China shows no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but it also under-represents how many people have died in the country’s rapidly spreading outbreak, World Health Organisation......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday termed the PTI’s white paper on the state of the economy as “selective, misrepresented and devoid of economic context”.The document, released a day earlier,......
Amid an uptick in terrorist activity in the country, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday assured the nation that the government was taking steps to counter terrorism.Pakistan has seen a......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday “strongly condemned the insensitive and provocative visit” of Israel’s new far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Al Aqsa mosque compound a......
Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant will be airlifted to Mumbai for surgery, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday, nearly a week after he suffered several injuries in a road accident.The national......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed on Wednesday to highlight the plight of flood affectees across the country at the upcoming Geneva conference, saying that thousands of flood-hit people were still......
The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) confirmed on Wednesday the detection of six coronavirus cases belonging to the highly-contagious Omicron subvariant category XBB in Karachi.“We have detected......
The Foreign Office on Wednesday rejected remarks made by Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar in which he indirectly referred to Pakistan as the “epicentre” of terrorism while on a tour......
Microsoft Corp is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two......
Pakistan lost in-form opener Imam-ul-Haq before reaching 224-4 at lunch Wednesday on the third day of the second Test against New Zealand in Karachi.The home team now trail the visitors’......
Oil edged lower on Wednesday after slumping in the previous session, weighed down by concerns about weak demand due to the state of the global economy.Brent futures for March delivery fell 13 cents......
Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging Covid-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government’s mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for......
The United States has thrown its weight behind the counter-terrorism decisions taken by the National Security Committee (NSC) in its recent meeting, saying “Pakistan has a right to defend itself from......
MUMBAI: Debutant fast bowler Shivam Mavi led an inspired bowling with his four wickets as India edged out Sri Lanka by two runs in a thrilling opening Twenty20 international on Tuesday.Mavi returned......
KARACHI: Faced with a deficit of 295 runs in their first innings with three days of play to come here at the National Stadium, Pakistan are hoping to end their Test season on a winning note. It’s......
SANTOS (Sao Paulo): Amid a media scrum outside the Vila Belmiro, Santos’s delightful retro stadium, Antonio Lima, a flux octogenarian, Santos legend and Pele’s brother-in-law, told Dawn that there......
Pakistan’s trade deficit stood at $2.857 billion in December, shrinking 40.68 per cent year-on-year, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Wednesday.In December 2021, the......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Tuesday warned the Sindh government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that if it failed to clarify its position regarding the local government elections in Karachi and......
KARACHI: A clash broke out between police and several hundred encroachers of a piece of state-owned land situated opposite the University of Karachi on Tuesday when the anti-encroachment staff of the......
HYDERABAD: With the inclusion of a mainstream nationalist party — the Sindh United Party (SUP) — in its fold, the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) seems to be gearing up with renewed vigour for......
PESHAWAR: The health department continued to send samples of Covid-19 positive patients for genome sequencing in view of the threats of new variants as a five-year-old boy died of the virus at a......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposed amendments to the rules for village and neighbourhood councils to increase remuneration of tehsil council chairmen and......
GUJRAT: An anti-terrorism court in Gujranwala on Tuesday extended the physical remand of both the suspects involved in the gun attack on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in Wazirabad.The......
LAHORE: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) held a meeting on Tuesday to review measures taken regarding anti-smog operations.Punjab Relief Commissioner Naveed Haider Shirazi chaired......
SEOUL: South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon’s surface and Earth, the national space centre said on Tuesday.Danuri — a portmanteau of the Korean......
YANGON: A firebrand monk dubbed the “Buddhist bin Laden” for his role in stirring up religious hatred in Myanmar received a national award on Tuesday, with the junta saluting his work in the......
RAWALPINDI: The twin cities police have agreed to institutionalise co-ordination between the two departments through regular meetings and decided to adopt a joint plan of action in the fight against......
VILLIERS BEL: Thousands of Kurds from across Europe travelled to the Paris suburbs on Tuesday for the politically charged funeral of three of their own killed in a December attack in the French......
RAMALLAH: Israeli forces killed a child in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry reported, as Israel said police officers fired on people throwing Molotov......
SHANGHAI: A senior doctor at one of Shanghai’s top hospitals has said 70 per cent of the megacity’s population may have been infected with Covid-19 during China’s huge surge in cases, state media......
LAHORE: A white paper issued by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) comparing the economic performance of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and PTI governments painted a bleak picture of......
SAMARA: Mourners voiced grief and anger on Tuesday at a rare public commemoration in Russia for the scores of soldiers killed by a Ukrainian strike on New Year’s Eve.In a rare admission, Russia on......
WASHINGTON: Kevin McCarthy, the Republican candidate for speakership of the US House of Representatives, failed on Tuesday to secure a majority after hard-right lawmakers refused to vote for him.The......
DUBAI: Dubai’s financial regulator said on Tuesday it upheld a $135.6 million fine on collapsed private equity firm Abraaj Group’s founder and former CEO Arif Naqvi “for his serious failings” in......
KARACHI: The cash-starved PMLN-led coalition government on Tuesday borrowed Rs655 billion exceeding the Rs300bn auction target for the treasury bills by 118 per cent without making any upward......
KARACHI: Another textile maker joined on Tuesday the steadily growing list of industrial units that’ve either scaled back or suspended operations citing unfavourable economic conditions.Crescent......
LAHORE: Pakistan records over 4.6 million bales of cotton production during the calendar year 2022 against more than 7.3m bales produced during the previous year, a massive shortfall of 37.23 per......
Another Russian was found dead in Odisha, India, on Tuesday, the third such incident in a fortnight.“This was the third such incident in a fortnight,” police said.According to The Hindu, the Russian,......
KARACHI: Oil consumption witnessed a year-on-year drop of 11 per cent in December and 19pc in 1HFY23 as demand for diesel, petrol and furnace oil remained depressed amid higher prices and plunging......
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has allowed additional sugar exports of 150,000 tonnes and approved immediate disbursement of Rs60 billion to the state-run......
KARACHI: Mishal Bukhari, a talk show host at Aap TV channel, passed away on Tuesday after battling cancer for two years. She was 38.“My wife, journalist Mishal Bukhari, a beautiful heart, an......
DISTURBING news has been emanating from Gwadar for several weeks now. People led by a political leader have been demanding their basic rights. Access to fishing in their own waters, the security of......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday observed that had the judicial orders been complied with by the governments in their letter and spirit, the condition of the provincial metropolis would have......
THERE was nothing in the communiqué issued after the latest National Security Committee meeting that we have not heard before. Phrases like ‘zero tolerance for terrorism’ and ‘violence will be dealt......
PARIS: Five months after the United States announced the killing of Al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, the global jihadist group has still not confirmed his death or announced a new......
ISLAMABAD: The investigation into the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif has apparently hit a snag after the interior ministry and Kenyan Embassy turned down the investigators’ requests for......
AS officials fear a resurgence of the coronavirus, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has released a clarification that no new variant has been detected in Pakistan so far.In a statement......
LAHORE: The PPP has warned the PTI that the general election might not be held this year if it doesn’t stop pushing the country towards anarchy.“The general election will not be conducted in the year......
ISLAMABAD: As the price of chicken meat touched Rs650 per kilogramme on Tuesday, traders and poultry farmers warned that relative affordability of chicken may become a thing of the past, and soon it......
DADU: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Tuesday his party would continue to work with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) despite differences, an assurance that did little to......
• Sticks to its stance on fresh delimitation before LG polls • Announces Jan 9 protest against PPP, leaving PML-N in a bind • Khalid Maqbool calls on former members to return to party foldKARACHI: In......
• Markets to shutter at 8:30pm, wedding halls at 10pm • Minister says plan in place to replace petrol-run motorcycles with e-bikes • Review of water tariff for rural and urban areas on the cards •......
KARACHI: Share prices dropped on Tuesday as investors reacted to a high monthly inflation reading and the announcement of the federal government’s energy conservation plan.Defence Minister Khawaja......
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Election Commission of Pakistan to go ahead with contempt proceedings against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and other party leaders, the ECP warned......
THERE was nothing in the communiqué issued after the latest National Security Committee meeting that we have not heard before. Phrases like ‘zero tolerance for terrorism’ and ‘violence will be dealt......
