A policeman was killed and two others sustained injuries in a gun attack on a check post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district on Saturday.According to District Police Officer (DPO) Charsadda......
Former National Assembly (NA) speaker Asad Qaiser claimed on Saturday that PML-N members in Punjab were reaching out to the PTI for tickets ahead of looming elections, adding that a “mutiny” was......
Former PML-N lawmaker Pir Aminul Hasnat Shah — a renowned political figure in Central Punjab — announced on Saturday that he has joined the PTI.The development was made public in a press conference......
The possibility of a big Covid-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80 per cent of people have been infected, a prominent government scientist said on Saturday.The mass......
The PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Saturday constituted a joint committee to tally Form-11s — polling station result forms issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — and “get back what......
Bitcoin rose 2.3 per cent to $23,199 at 10:07 GMT on Saturday, adding $521 to its previous close.Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 40.6 per cent from the year’s low of......
The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department has arrested five suspected terrorists belonging to banned organisations during intelligence-based operations across the province, the CTD spokesperson said on......
Pakistan Meteorological Department on Saturday predicted that another “cold wave” was likely to grip Sindh, including Karachi, from Sunday with the temperature expected to drop to 6-8 °C for the next......
A Lahore sessions court on Saturday granted pre-arrest bail to three schoolgirls nominated in a police complaint for allegedly torturing their class fellow at a private school in the city.A video......
Chris Hipkins, who played a significant role in New Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after emerging on Saturday as the only candidate to......
BERLIN: Incoming German Football Association (DFB) boss Rudi Voeller said on Friday he was “worried about the future of football in the country,” promising changes in the way the game is......
MELBOURNE: Australian Olympic track star Peter Bol said he was innocent and “in total shock” on Friday after being provisionally suspended for failing an out-of-competition drugs test.The 800-metre......
LAHORE: Aimed at bringing national sport in the limelight, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) with the support of national cricket stars has decided to hold a five-match series between Karachi and......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Saturday formally appointed former bureaucrat Mohammad Azam Khan as the caretaker chief minister of the province in the interim set-up.The appointment......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday directed authorities to ensure an early start of work on the Dir Motorway saying the project is a major move towards sustainable......
LAHORE: The eighth edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League will kick off with defending champions Lahore Qalandars taking on 2021 winners Multan Sultans at the Multan Cricket Stadium on February 13,......
India’s wrestling federation chief on Friday cancelled a press conference meant to reveal a “conspiracy” against him as top athletes, including Olympic and Commonwealth medallists, mounted a third......
PESHAWAR: MNA Nasir Khan Musazai has said he has no intention to resign from the National Assembly.Mr Musazai, who recently left Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and joined Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, stated......
KARACHI: Two transgender rights activists were denied flying by a foreign airline due to their ‘x’ gender on Friday.Shahzadi Rai and Zehrish, the two transgender rights activists at the Gender......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court granted on Friday interim pre-arrest bail to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf senior leader Ali Haider Zaidi in a case pertaining to attacking and ransacking the office of the......
• Siraj urges ECP to fulfil responsibility of fair, transparent results • Hafiz Naeem invites all stakeholders for development of city • Party delegation set to meet PTI todayKARACHI: A day after......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) claims to have added undeveloped 33,000 acres of brown areas (the land allocated / notified for housing projects) into the green areas in the Lahore......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the district administration and the police to impose a fine of Rs200,000 each on traders not closing their shops by 10pm.Justice Shahid Karim had......
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday cleared Suleman Shehbaz — son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif — in the Rs16 billion sugar scam case, citing a “lack of evidence”.The FIA granted......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is likely to inaugurate Margalla Avenue by the end of this month as the road is being given final touches.Sources in the Capital Development Authority (CDA)......
ISLAMABAD: Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra on Friday deferred the indictment of Shahbaz Shabbir Gill — the former chief of staff officer of PTI chairman Imran Khan — in a......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday urged the nation to cast votes with responsibility and due diligence to elect leaders who could rid the country of prevailing crisis and put the country......
ADEN: “To be, or not to be”: on a stage in Yemen, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet rings out in Arabic, a tragedy that resonates with an audience suffering from years of civil war.In the......
COPENHAGEN: Temperatures in parts of Greenland are warmer than they have been in 1,000 years, the co-author of a study that reconstructed conditions by drilling deep into the ice sheet said on......
BEIRUT: Two independent Lebanese lawmakers have spent the night in parliament to press for the election of a new president, as factional deadlock leaves the country largely leaderless amid a......
WARSAW: No decision on supplying Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine was reached at a meeting of allies in Germany, Poland’s defence minister said on Friday, though he remained optimistic that efforts to......
MOUNTAIN VIEW (California, US): Google’s parent Alphabet Inc has decided to cut about 12,000 jobs, or six per cent of its workforce, the company said on Friday, as the technology sector reels from......
FARIDABAD: Ravi Verma, hired by an electrical parts manufacturing firm early last year as India’s economy surged, was fired in November when the company lost several export orders. He has since......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has refused to appoint a senior lawyer as a judge because he is gay and has a foreign partner, the country’s apex court said on Friday.New Delhi decriminalised gay......
DAVOS: US climate envoy John Kerry bluntly summed up in one word what the planet needs to avoid a global warming catastrophe at the World Economic Forum this week: money.The annual meeting of the......
KARACHI: Bears made a return to the trading floor of the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Friday as uncertainty around the talks for the revival of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme......
• Both sides sort out technical issues on insurance, transportation, payment mechanism • Sign three accords for cooperation in customs, aviation • Moscow says Islamabad can pay for oil in currencies......
ISLAMABAD: In line with the government’s decision to meet IMF demands to cut the fiscal deficit, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday constituted a 15-member committee on austerity measures for......
KARACHI: Zafar Masud of the Bank of Punjab is an oddity among bank CEOs. After all, which other top banker would endorse the ideas espoused by Thomas Piketty, a radical French economist who western......
KARACHI: The government has increased the rates of returns on Naya Pakistan Certificates (NPCs) after most investments in these certificates have been withdrawn in the past nine months amid political......
KARACHI: In compliance with the State Bank of Pakistan’s directive, the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on Friday submitted details of 2,500 stuck-up containers at ports out of a......
ISLAMABAD: The ship agents have forewarned the government that all export cargoes could come to a halt as foreign shipping lines are considering stopping their services for Pakistan after banks......
THE first major test of the current Election Commission, in fact the entire nation, is less than 90 days away. With the dissolution of the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the......
IN recent weeks and months, the US has made no secret of the fact that it is closely monitoring developments in Pakistan, both on the security and economic fronts.In the past three months, over a......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) Lahore to use “persons with disabilities” or “persons with different abilities” instead of “disabled” — to......
LONDON: As PML-N eagerly awaits the impending return of the party’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif to provide impetus to its electoral campaign, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday hinted that Mr......
• PTI delegation meets ECP bosses • TLP workers hold protest outside ECP offices • JI, PPP discuss strategy to name own mayorKARACHI: About a week after the local government elections in Karachi and......
LAHORE: Terming the current economic situation a “manufactured crisis” following one man’s decision, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said the only way out left is to establish rule......
KABUL: The United Nations’ deputy secretary-general met the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar, provincial authorities said on Friday, a rare meeting by a foreign envoy with the Taliban’s......
ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Index (SPI), posted an increase of 31.83 per cent for the combined income group on a year-on-year basis ending Jan 19 due to a massive surge......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will not normalise ties with Israel in the absence of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat has said, according to a tweet by the foreign......
LAHORE: After a parliamentary committee constituted by the Punjab Assembly speaker failed to build a consensus on a candidate for the slot of the caretaker chief minister, the matter landed in the......
HISTORIANS have aptly noted that Jinnah kept his notion of Pakistan ambiguous — more promised homeland and less concrete reality, a tactical manoeuvre that ensured its clarion call would appeal to......
IN recent weeks and months, the US has made no secret of the fact that it is closely monitoring developments in Pakistan, both on the security and economic fronts.In the past three months, over a......
