A hand grenade was lobbed at the home of MNA Nasir Khan Musazai in Peshawar on Sunday night, police said.In a statement, a spokesperson for the Peshawar police said that the home, falling within the......
Moscow claimed on Sunday its army conducted a deadly “retaliatory strike” in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk to avenge the deaths of 89 Russian troops killed in Makiivka.“More than 600......
Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah, in an attempt to purge Karachi of street crime, directed the provincial police chief to mobilise the Special Security Unit (SSU) and reserve police to......
PML-N Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed said on Sunday that no service chief should be given an extension in their tenures.In a wide-ranging interview on Dawn News programme ‘Doosra Rukh’, the senator......
Authorities in one of the holiest towns in the Indian Himalayas were evacuating panicked residents on Sunday after hundreds of houses began developing yawning cracks and sinking, officials said.The......
PTI Chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that the establishment had not learned from past mistakes as “political engineering” was still underway in the country.Addressing a women workers convention in......
Israel suspended on Sunday a pass easing the Palestinian foreign minister’s travel in and around the occupied West Bank, among its responses to a Palestinian bid to involve the International Court of......
Nineteen people died and 20 were injured on Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, state media reported.The “major road traffic accident” took place just before 1am......
Former PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan — who was disqualified as a lawmaker last year — said on Sunday that he had no plans of joining a new political party or launching one.“Right now I am only focused......
German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities in western......
Police on Sunday recovered the body of a woman who jumped into the sea at Seaview and arrested her employer, according to South-SSP, Syed Asad Raza.On Saturday, rescuers carried out a search for the......
China lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travelers on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.The first people to arrive......
RAJKOT: Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten century guided India to a 91-run victory over Sri Lanka in the third and final Twenty20 International on Saturday as the hosts clinched the series 2-1.Yadav, the......
PARIS: Paris St Germain (PSG) rested their biggest stars but still won 3-1 at third-tier Chateauroux in the round of 64 of the Coupe de France on Friday night.With Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and......
PAKISTAN boxer Muhammad Waseem gestures during his interview. After winning a gold medal at the national championship, when a teenage boy told his family members that he was......
PARIS: Didier Deschamps said on Saturday he will remain France coach until the 2026 World Cup after leading the team to the final of the last two editions.Deschamps’ contract expired after the World......
A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on the sidelines of the upcoming Geneva conference to “discuss outstanding issues”, the lender’s......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has announced a countrywide protest campaign to be launched by his party on Sunday against the rising inflation in the country.Addressing the party workers at......
MUZAFFARGARH: Five men allegedly kidnapped a youth on Saturday, subjected him to physical torture and then chopped off his nose, over suspicion of having relations with a woman at Khairpur Sadaat......
SYDNEY: Australia reduced South Africa to 149-6 at the close of play on the fourth day of the rain-disrupted third Test on Saturday after declaring on 475-4 in pursuit of a victory that would give......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in a meeting on Saturday with the Punjab Assembly Speaker and provincial ministers comprehensively reviewed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP)......
KARACHI: The highly ambitious plan to restart the 44km Karachi Circular Railway remains a pipe dream as the construction work on the KCR route has come to a halt causing a great deal of hardships to......
• Many hurt in stampede as crowd storms truck laden with flour bags • Opposition parties accuse PPP govt of taking merely cosmetic measuresMIRPURKHAS: While people have been protesting across the......
British High Commissioner Dr Christian Turner. ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner Dr Christian Turner has said the issuance rate of British student visas from Pakistan is......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has briefed the non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) on improved regulatory requirements, recently imposed through Circular No.......
KARACHI: Trading began on a sluggish note in the outgoing week as inflation touched 24.5 per cent for December, said Arif Habib Ltd.The government announced that commercial markets would close by......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Industries and Production has devised a scheme to initially produce 100,000 e-bikes in 18 months to diversify fuel consumption as well as help reduce carbon emissions.The......
MEXICO CITY: Two metro trains collided in a Mexico City tunnel on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 16, authorities in the megacity of 20 million reported.Local media reported the trains......
CHAGAI: Pakistan Peoples Party has restored the membership of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Hasni and his son Mir Umair Muhammad Hasni, according to sources.The decision was taken during the meeting of a......
PARIS: Thousands of demonstrators marched in central Paris on Saturday to pay tribute to three Kurdish activists murdered a decade ago.The march — an annual event since the killings on January 9,......
QUETTA: Amid acute wheat shortage leading to a steep rise in flour prices, authorities on Saturday launched a crackdown against hoarders across the province.Official sources said a team headed by......
GILGIT: Winter festivities kicked off across Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday with a number of events and festivals across the region.A three-day Shyok Winter Festival started in Khaplu area of Ghanche......
ISLAMABAD: As foreign reserves dropped to an ‘alarming level’, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders on Saturday blamed the incumbent government for pushing the country to the brink of bankruptcy.In......
KARACHI: As Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen to an alarming level — not even sufficient enough to cover three weeks’ worth of imports — the financial sector has asked Finance Minister......
IF I could remove one word from the dictionary, it would be all the iterations of ‘saviour’. No, I’m not selling anything remotely religious here. This idea came to me after a few weeks spent in......
WITH the Taliban having banned their education, Pakistan can allow Afghan female students to complete their degrees in Pakistan. This would allow the country to embark on a new Afghan policy, which......
PARIS: A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.The comet is called......
LUCKNOW: Indian authorities have moved nearly 200 people from their homes in the Himalayan town of Joshimath, an official said on Saturday, after hundreds of buildings in the area popular with......
KYIV: Ukrainians and Russians on Saturday marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war, as fighting persisted despite Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause......
SYDNEY: Record-breaking floods have had a “devastating impact” on isolated towns in the Australian outback, the country’s prime minister said on Saturday.Helicopters have been winching people to......
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad has issued an order to unfreeze movable and immovable properties of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar after a corruption reference against the PML-N leader......
PESHAWAR: The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) leader, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsood, has indicated that his outfit is still amenable to a ceasefire agreement with the government.“We held talks......
PARIS: Europe has seen “extreme” warm winter weather in recent days, experts have said, with 2023 already posting record temperatures for January across the region.As temperatures rise globally......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that all-out efforts are being made by the PDM government headed by Shehbaz Sharif to overcome the economic crisis so that Pakistan can......
LAHORE: As Punjab is heading towards a political showdown between the PTI/PML-Q and PDM on the issue of the chief minister’s trust vote, the latter (PML-N-led coalition) has placed the names of......
KARACHI: Higher import and transportation costs, crop availability, the demand and supply gap, hoarding, exchange rate issues, etc have led to massive price disparities in prices of essential food......
LAKKI MARWAT: A police constable was martyred and another suffered gunshot wounds when militants attacked a police patrol in Bannu, while villagers and police repulsed yet another attack on a police......
• Imran retracts threat of resigning en masse from Punjab Assembly • Ex-PM asks party leaders to coordinate with Moonis to ensure required numbersLAHORE: Changing his mind, former prime minister......
WITH the Taliban having banned their education, Pakistan can allow Afghan female students to complete their degrees in Pakistan. This would allow the country to embark on a new Afghan policy, which......
VULGAR is the word that pops into mind when witnessing the kind of politicking that seems to have become the norm in Pakistan, especially against the backdrop of a faltering economy, back-breaking......
