Canada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced.A......
Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Sunday called for developing consensus among political parties for the sake of Karachi’s development in the wake of local body elections in Sindh.The......
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will embark on a two-day visit to Tashkent, Uzbekistan tomorrow (January 23) to attend the 26th meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation......
Sweden’s prime minister has condemned as “deeply disrespectful” the desecration of the Holy Quran in Stockholm, which has raised tensions with Turkey as the Nordic country courts Ankara over its Nato......
DADU: Unesco experts Thierry Joffroy and Ms Kristina on Saturday inspected rain-hit parts of the 5,000-year-old Mohenjo Daro town and carried out experiments on mud-bricked walls and drainage system......
A new search of President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday by the US Justice Department (DOJ) found six more items, including documents with classification markings, a lawyer for......
Police were at the scene of a shooting in southern California that has caused a number of casualties, including deaths, US media reported on Sunday, citing law enforcement.There were scant details,......
A building collapsed in Syria’s second city of Aleppo on Sunday killing 10 people including one child, state media reported, adding that rescue efforts were ongoing.The five-storey structure in the......
Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday said the judiciary should review its past decisions, urging it “rectify the injustices” done to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose return......
At least 32 United Nations peacekeeping personnel, including seven from Pakistan, were killed in deliberate attacks last year, according to the UN Staff Union.For the ninth year in a row, the United......
China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population has already been infected by the......
A patrol van of the Badaber police station in Peshawar’s Khyber district narrowly escaped a bomb blast on Sunday, the police said.According to a statement issued by the Peshawar Capital City Police,......
WHO wouldn’t be tempted to endorse an Imran Khan-like stance to burn the house down, in the face of the paralysis that our dysfunctional state and its rotten-to-the-core system has come to represent,......
India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is......
New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party chose former Covid minister Chris Hipkins on Sunday to replace the charismatic Jacinda Ardern as its new leader, and become the next prime minister of the......
Taking the ghizhek (a traditional violin) from a hanger on a wooden pillar and slowly dusting it off with an old piece of cloth, Ustad Rehmatullah Baig starts playing it with the kamuncha (violin......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has overturned the life imprisonment handed down to an appellant by a trial court in a murder case.A sessions court had sentenced Haris Shakeel alias Haris Sohail to 25......
KARACHI: Describing the health status of the country as depressing, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Saturday said that health indicators had gone from bad to worse in Pakistan and that......
KARACHI: Another cold wave is likely to grip Karachi and other parts of the province from Sunday (today), the Met Office said on Saturday.It said that the minimum temperature may fall to a single......
PESHAWAR: A local court here on Saturday sent to prison the suspected killer of senior lawyer and politician Abdul Latif Afridi on 14-day judicial remand after he declined to confess to his......
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Sirajul Haq has said the ruling troika is directly responsible for the unprecedented inflation and collapse of the national economy.Addressing a protest rally......
LAHORE: The government has specified the land use in the Rs30bn Ravi Industrial Estate on 1,239 acres in the phase-II of the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development (RRUD) Project. The scheme includes......
RAIPUR: Skipper Rohit Sharma hailed India’s seam bowlers after the hosts hammered New Zealand by eight wickets to clinch the series in the second One-day International on Saturday.Pace spearhead......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas has said settlement of Kashmir dispute in line with the wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris was central to improving......
MELBOURNE: Britain’s Andy Murray reaches for a return to Roberto Bautista-Agut of Spain during their third-round match at the Australian Open on Saturday.—Reuters MELBOURNE: A......
One of the most well-known catastrophes of political polling occurred in the 1948 U.S presidential election between the incumbent Harry Truman and challenger Thomas Dewey.Truman had become president......
SYDNEY: Despite an improved performance, Pakistan were unable to avoid a women’s ODI series whitewash to Australia as they fell to a 101-run loss in the third match at the North Sydney Oval on......
LAHORE: Indian baseball team is still waiting to get clearance for the issuance of their visas to visit Pakistan for participating in the West Asia Baseball Cup starting in Islamabad on Jan 26, a top......
KARACHI: Trading in the outgoing week kicked off on a negative note owing to political chaos owing to the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly over the weekend.Arif Habib Ltd said uncertainty persisted......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has warned that organised groups can misuse personal information for online financial scams as well as terror or criminal activities.The......
KARACHI: Foreign investors are sweet-talkers. They tend to gloss over unpleasant facts while speaking to the press. So when the head of the UK’s premier development finance institution (DFI) uses......
KARACHI: The ex-factory price of steel bars has crossed the Rs250,000 per tonne threshold for the first time amid claims by stakeholders regarding thin demand for steel products on account of a......
THE year of the World Cup hasn’t started the way Pakistan would’ve liked. The home One-day International (ODI) series loss to New Zealand means Pakistan have virtually no room to give excuses and......
KARACHI: The government’s decision to allow the import of five years old tractors will spell disaster in local manufacturing as well as in the vending units which are already struggling to survive,......
KARACHI: After the complete surrender by the PMLN-led coalition government to meeting the IMF conditions for the revival of the programme, the financial market looks firm that the State Bank of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic team is indecisive over the quantum of revenue measures in a bid to end the uncertainty that has stemmed from the delay in the 9th review under the International......
KYIV: Germany faced a strong backlash from allies on Saturday over its refusal to supply Ukraine with its vaunted Leopard tanks to bolster its fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with......
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stand in a California fraud trial on Friday, accused of lying in tweets about taking the auto company private, punishing investors.Musk was called to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday appointed party stalwart Raza Rabbani as the convenor of the committee for golden jubilee celebrations of the 1973......
KARACHI: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Pakistani authorities to pursue all leads to trace the killers of journalist Arshad Sharif, who was shot dead in Kenya in October 2022.In......
UNITED NATIONS: In a clear message to Kabul’s de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis,......
SDE EFRAIM: An Israeli civilian shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday at a settler farm in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing, the army said, the latest incident as violence surges in......
DUBAI: Iran’s troubled currency fell to a record low against the US dollar on Saturday amid the country’s increasing isolation and possible European Union sanctions against Tehran’s Revolutionary......
NEW DELHI: Air India has been fined $37,000 for its handling of an incident in which a drunk senior US bank executive was accused of urinating on a female passenger, Indian media reported.The man......
Chris Hipkins AUCKLAND: After being chosen as his party’s only candidate to replace Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s incoming prime minister Chris Hipkins vowed on Saturday to “get......
BEIJING: 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......
Pakistan’s economic situation requires fresh thinking and a clear approach. The blame game where each incoming government passes the buck to its predecessor has reached saturation level. People......
KARACHI: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday laid the blame of getting deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified in the Panama Papers case on former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed......
CHARSADDA: One cop was martyred and two others were injured when unidentified assailants attacked a police post in Dheri Zardad locality of Charsadda on Saturday.Officials and residents said three......
ISLAMABAD: After a bi-partisan parliamentary committee formed by the Punjab Assembly speaker failed to reach a consensus in the stipulated time, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will meet in......
Pakistan’s economic situation requires fresh thinking and a clear approach. The blame game where each incoming government passes the buck to its predecessor has reached saturation level. People......
WHO wouldn’t be tempted to endorse an Imran Khan-like stance to burn the house down, in the face of the paralysis that our dysfunctional state and its rotten-to-the-core system has come to represent,......
LONDON: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif chaired another huddle with party leaders on Saturday, marking day three of consultative meetings being held between the London-based leadership and visiting......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has stopped civil judges in Sindh from heading committees formed to oversee flood relief efforts and said vulnerable groups, particularly women, should be given the......
