Finance Minister Ishaq Dar reiterated his commitment to completing a programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a meeting on the sidelines of a climate conference in Geneva on Monday,......
The Punjab Assembly (PA) session witnessed pandemonium on Monday as the opposition challenged Chief Minister Parvez Elahi to prove he had the requisite numbers to secure a vote of confidence.The......
Gareth Bale announced his retirement from club and international football at the age of 33 on Monday, bringing to an end one of the most decorated careers in British football history.Bale, who made a......
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Monday formed a committee to probe the incident of an official allegedly threatening a security officer with a blasphemy case during a parking dispute at Jinnah......
Brazilian police deployed at a camp of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil’s state institutions......
Just about every aspect of life for Muslims in occupied Jammu and Kashmir is under assault by India’s ruling BJP.The year 2022 saw Indian actions aimed at disempowering its Muslim population by......
Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and sent New Zealand in to bat Monday in the first day-night international in Karachi.Pakistan handed an ODI cap to 27-year-old leg-spinner Usama Mir after......
An old Bollywood film song playing on loop exhorted travellers to keep walking as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and an entourage marched through northern India’s Panipat city on a frigid morning......
The opening session of the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan — co-hosted by Pakistan and the United Nations — began in Geneva on Monday as Prime Minister......
A surge in the cost of most food commodities last year, as the disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of shortages, sent the United Nations food agency’s average price......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ruled on Monday that the local government (LG) polls in Karachi, Hyderabad and Thatta divisions would be held on Jan 15 as per the schedule.The verdict was......
Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) fell on Monday, with analysts attributing that the sell-off to the country’s forex reserves dropping to dangerous levels and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s......
Almost 90 per cent of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said Monday, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.Kan......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir on Monday met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in Al-Ula, Madina and discussed bilateral ties between the two......
LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amir Zulfiqar Khan on Sunday told the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and Special Branch to speed up the search and combing operations against......
SYDNEY: World number nine Taylor Fritz battled past Italian Matteo Berrettini with a powerhouse performance to steer the United States to the inaugural mixed teams United Cup title in Sydney on......
NEW DELHI: The impact of Suryakumar Yadav’s incendiary shotmaking makes batting easier for his India team-mates, captain Hardik Pandya said after the team’s T20 series victory against Sri Lanka in......
SYDNEY: South Africa dug deep and denied Australia a 3-0 series sweep with a battling draw in the rain-disrupted third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday, finally finding some fight on the......
LAHORE: In a bid to overcome the flour crisis, Chief Minister Parvez Elahi has issued directions for an increase in the wheat quota of flour mills, doubling the number of subsidised flour sale......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Sunday reiterated that its candidate would be elected as the next mayor of Karachi after the January 15 local government elections as the ruling party of the......
KARACHI: Five Tests in a row, losses in three and victory in none. Add to it an abrupt change of regime in their cricket board, Pakistan have gone through a lot in the last six weeks. Finally,......
BEIJING: China lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on Sunday, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.The first people......
SWAT: People in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday held protest demonstrations against rising prices of flour and other essential commodities and asked the government to take immediate......
PESHAWAR: The shortage of resources and basic equipment has been hindering the performance of Peshawar’s anti-car lifting cell (ACLC) as it has recovered only 80 of the 180 stolen vehicles in the......
ISLAMABAD: The city managers are yet to call tenders for construction of five parking plazas in the capital while final touches are being given to the base work of a plaza in Blue Area. The latter......
ISLAMABAD: Amid unprecedented inflation in the country, the price of the staple Naan has increased up to Rs10 in the capital, with tandoorwalas charging between Rs25 and Rs30.On the other hand,......
Historically, Pakistan has been a major player in the global dairy market. Its important role is reflected in the sector growth of 3.26 per cent in 2020-21, accounting for......
Oil prices edged up on Monday, a day after travellers streamed into China following a reopening of borders that lifted the fuel demand outlook and partly offset concerns of global recession.Brent......
In his late 20s, Hassan Naqvi is one of the few people who ride electric vehicles (EV) in Lahore, but the number is estimated to rise dramatically in the coming decade. Every year Mr Naqvi has to......
LYON: Some 1,000 people rallied in the French city of Lyon on Sunday in support of unprecedented anti-regime protests in Iran, journalists saw.The protesters walked through the streets of the eastern......
Santa Cruz: Torrential downpours and damaging winds left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power in California late on Sunday as the area braced for the next onslaught of severe......
SYDNEY: Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting......
LONDON: Days after Prince Harry’s memoir accidentally went on sale early with new allegations of discord and conflict within the British royal family, a series of TV interviews with him started......
Countries in South Asia, including India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, have been experiencing a decline in agricultural farm sizes because of increasing population and division of land among......
ISLAMABAD: While calling the current financial crunch worse than that during wars and Covid-19 pandemic, former state minister for finance Hammad Azhar on Sunday alleged the International Monetary......
UNITED NATIONS: As Pakistan and the United Nations are co-hosting a conference in Geneva on Monday to mobilise international support for the flood victims, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari......
A few weeks ago, a news report gave the figure of Pakistanis migrating abroad in 2022 for work-related purposes as 765,000. The bulk of these were in blue-collar occupations, but it seems a......
KARACHI / QUETTA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) continued to strengthen its ranks in Balochistan after a number of senior politicians joined the party.The experts are seeing these moves as signs of......
Just about every aspect of life for Muslims in occupied Jammu and Kashmir is under assault by India’s ruling BJP.The year 2022 saw Indian actions aimed at disempowering its Muslim population by......
LAHORE: With political lobbying taking a centre stage across the country, electables belonging to south Punjab are also weighing options to make a “right political move” after they received “signals......
IT’S a misty winter morning in the Indus Delta. Haji Muhammad Moosa Jatt jumps into his boat like a young man.Moosa, now in his 60s, has been a fisherman for decades, but this year’s fishing season......
ISLAMABAD: Just a day before the fresh session of Punjab Assembly, Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has ruled out the possibility of dissolution of provincial......
ISLAMABAD: In a significant move towards commencement of the first-ever digital population and housing census, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Sunday handed over the last......
ISLAMABAD: A retired general convicted of sharing ‘classified information’ with foreign spies has been pardoned by the new military leadership and released from prison.However, he still plans to......
ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan has identified multibillion rupees irregularities in the financial affairs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government, with a major chunk of them related to the......
QUETTA: Despite an SOS sent by the Balochistan government a day earlier, no consignment of wheat reached the province on Sunday.At a press conference on Saturday night, Food Minister Zamarak Khan......
LAHORE: A day after former prime minister Imran Khan changed his mind and agreed to put off the vote of confidence that he insisted the Punjab chief minister must take before Jan 11, it appears......
A few weeks ago, a news report gave the figure of Pakistanis migrating abroad in 2022 for work-related purposes as 765,000. The bulk of these were in blue-collar occupations, but it seems a......
THAT the youths of any nation are a great asset to its future is no news. They represent new blood pumping into the body of a community, keeping it alive and moving forward with hope. On the......
