Mexican drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been arrested by Mexican authorities, five officials familiar with the matter told Reuters on......
At least 11 terrorists, including a militant commander and two suicide bombers, were killed in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in South Waziristan’s Wana, the military’s media affairs wing said......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday categorically rejected reports claiming that Pakistan had carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan, terming them to be “utterly baseless and malicious”.The statement......
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered a 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas, the first major truce of the more than 10-month long war that has killed tens of thousands......
Earthquake tremors were felt in northern parts of the country, including Islamabad and Peshawar, DawnNewsTV reported on Thursday.The news report said that tremors were also felt in several other......
Former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday termed the Nov 3 attack on him in Wazirabad to be a “planned assassination attempt”, insisting that three shooters were involved in the......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday barred the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from removing Imran Khan as the chairman of the PTI in pursuance of the verdict issued in the Toshakhana......
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Thursday that the recently held meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) — the highest forum for coordination on security issues — had decided that......
Pakistan’s biggest agricultural machinery manufacturer, Millat Tractors Limited, said on Thursday that it would remain closed from January 6 (tomorrow) till further notice, citing reduced demand and......
Iran announced on Thursday the closure of a Tehran-based French research institute in protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by French......
Middle-order batter Haris Sohail returned while all-rounder Shadab Khan was benched due to injury as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced the squad for the One-day International......
Supreme Court Justice Ijazul Ahsan on Thursday asked investigators to discuss with the foreign ministry the possibility of involving the United Nations in the murder probe journalist Arshad......
Oil rebounded on Thursday after posting the biggest two-day loss for the start of a year in three decades with the shutdown of a US fuel pipeline providing support, though economic concerns capped......
Amazon announced on Wednesday it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce, citing “the uncertain economy” and the fact that the online retail giant had “hired rapidly” during the......
Britain’s Prince Harry says in an upcoming book that his older brother and heir to the throne, Prince William, knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’s wife Meghan, The Guardian......
The lawyer of the suspect arrested after the Nov 3 attack on PTI chairman Imran Khan claimed on Thursday that the joint investigation team (JIT) — constituted by the Punjab government to probe the......
Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori has said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) “will remain part of” the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — the ruling coalition government.Responding to a question in the......
The Israeli army killed a Palestinian child on Thursday in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said.The health ministry announced, “Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, was killed by a......
Pakistan were dismissed for a first-innings score of 408 on the fourth day of the second Test, in response to New Zealand’s 449 in Karachi Thursday.Saud Shakeel remained unbeaten on 125 after last......
HARARE: Zimbabwe have included former England Test batsman Gary Ballance in a 15-man squad for three T20 Internationals against Ireland in Harare during January.The 33-year-old left-handed batter,......
KARACHI: A group of school kids, numbering about a hundred — little girls in their flowing headscarves and boys with their shirts tightly tucked in, looked on in wonderment as the broadcast crew took......
Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday that a network of Daesh militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul has been killed in an operation.On December 2,......
MANSEHRA: Water and Power Development Authority chairman retired Lt-Gen Sajjad Ghani on Wednesday said the 4,320 megawatts Dasu hydropower project would begin producing electricity by the end of 2026......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN/LAKKI MARWAT: Armed men attacked a polio vaccination team in Dera Town on Wednesday morning injuring their police guard.The vaccinators were unhurt in the Hussaini Chowk attack.The......
LAHORE: In contrast to the policy adopted by Pakistan Cricket Board interim Management Committee’s chairman Najam Sethi, former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq believes Pakistani coaches are also intelligent......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday issued a stay order stopping the public sector Khyber Teaching Hospital from reducing the salary and allowances of its employees under the......
KARACHI: The Non-Resident Pakistanis (NRP) of Washington DC held a meet and greet for launching the concept of the Karachi World Medical City at the Pak American Cultural Centre here on......
KARACHI: Afaq Ahmed, the chairman of Mohajir Qaumi Movement, better known as MQM-Haqiqi, on Wednesday made it clear that his party was not going to merge with the Mutahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan......
KARACHI: In an active campaign to make its Jan 9 protest rally a success, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Wednesday called on all political parties including its rivals to join its......
KARACHI: Friends and colleagues of eminent media person, actor and writer Imran Aslam, who passed away on Dec 2 last year, went down memory lane to share their views on his life and work at an event......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir on Thursday met Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and discussed the ways of strengthening cooperation between the two......
LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police Aamir Zulfiqar Khan has ordered integration of all the mobile phone applications introduced by the Punjab Police to provide different services to the......
LAHORE: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit Lahore and other cities of Punjab province around 3:04pm (PST) on Wednesday.The National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) confirmed that......
LAHORE: The chief minister on Wednesday announced establishing Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Institute of Postgraduate Studies at the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute, Lahore, and said that it would help......
Former premier and PTI Chairman Imran Khan has alleged that former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa had planned to have him murdered and impose a state of emergency in the country, a private TV......
PARIS: Two climate activists spray-painted the front entrance of the French prime minister’s office on Wednesday in protest at what campaign group Derniere Renovation (Last Renovation) called ......
WASHINGTON: The stalemate over electing a speaker of the US House of Representatives continued on Wednesday, with Republican Kevin McCarthy losing again in a fifth round of voting. A sixth round was......
ISLAMABAD: A day after the government announced its austerity plan to save energy, the traders and restaurateurs on Wednesday urged the authorities to withdraw the plan or the community will be......
TEHRAN: Iran warned France on Wednesday it would respond after “insulting” cartoons depicting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were published in the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.The weekly......
KARACHI: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called upon Malaysian authorities to explain how a Pakistani journalist who had been living as a refugee in Malaysia for years — after allegedly being......
LONDON: Global oil prices plunged on Wednesday over China demand concerns and European gas prices sank to their lowest levels since November 2021 as mild winter weather reduced demand.Crude prices......
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation criticised on Wednesday China’s “very narrow” definition of Covid deaths, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak.“We......
WASHINGTON: Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968, part of the first crewed Apollo mission paving the way for 12 others to land on the moon in subsequent......
KARACHI: Share prices moved both ways on Wednesday before settling on the lower side as a result of uncertain macroeconomic conditions.Arif Habib Ltd said the volume for mainboard stocks dropped......
KARACHI: Domestic one-tola and 10-gram gold rates hit a new all-time high of Rs188,600 and Rs161,694 posting a jump of Rs900 and Rs772, respectively, on Wednesday.All Sindh Saraf Jewellers......
KARACHI: Domestic cement sales dipped 17 per cent to 20 million tonnes in the first half of the current fiscal year from 24m tonnes in the same period last year reflecting the construction slowdown......
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Wednesday approved 10 development projects, mostly related to the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-hit areas......
• Sanaullah reiterates offer of talks with groups who would abide by law • TTP threatens PML-N and PPP for ‘waging war’ on banned outfit • US backs Pakistan, hints at possibility of unilateral action......
KARACHI: The recently announced energy conservation measures may turn into an occupational nightmare for thousands of riders engaged in the food and grocery delivery business nationwide.The National......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday asked India to stop levelling bogus charges and end its support for terrorism in Pakistan.“For last several years, India has engaged in a malicious......
THE donor’s conference in Geneva on Jan 9 offers this country a rare opportunity to engage with friends of Pakistan in a long-term partnership for resilience. Building on the high-profile activities......
SPECULATION and discussions regarding a technocratic government, with an extended tenure of two to three years to extricate the economy from its woes, are rife.The proposal is flawed on several......
ISLAMABAD: The year 2022 was yet another reminder that Asia-Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region, and the floods were the deadliest, accounting for 74.4 per cent of disaster events in......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday reiterated his party’s claims that the Nov 3 attack on former prime minister Imran Khan was a part of a “well-coordinated”......
LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, the party’s newly-appointed senior vice president, left London for a week-long trip to Geneva where the......
ISLAMABAD: Police have furnished a 13-page interim report before the Supreme Court about investigations into journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder for the perusal of judges in chambers only, as a......
ISLAMABAD: After a month-long hiatus in multiple deaths from coronavirus in a single day, two patients died the same day, an official of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police chief on Wednesday contradicted the interior minister’s claim, which he made on Dec 27, 2022, that four to five terrorists involved in the I-10/4 bomb blast had been......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined the international community in condemning Israel’s new far-right national security minister’s provocative visit on Tuesday to Al-Aqsa mosque compound, warning that......
JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem bishop said on Wednesday he was “dismayed” by the desecration of dozens of Christian graves on the edge of the Old City, as police probed the vandalism.Stone graves lay in......
LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday registered a case under terrorism charges against a suspect involved in the murder of two intelligence agency officials in Khanewal on......
ISLAMABAD: The Healthcare Devices Association (HDA) has warned the relevant authorities of disruption of medical and surgical treatment facilities across the country after the recent restriction......
LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has approached the Lahore High Court against a notice of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on proceedings to debar him from heading the party following his......
SPECULATION and discussions regarding a technocratic government, with an extended tenure of two to three years to extricate the economy from its woes, are rife.The proposal is flawed on several......
THE donor’s conference in Geneva on Jan 9 offers this country a rare opportunity to engage with friends of Pakistan in a long-term partnership for resilience. Building on the high-profile activities......
