Indian police on Friday detained students in New Delhi after stopping the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during deadly sectarian riots in 2002.The students at......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday castigated PTI Chairman Imran Khan for misleading the nation by stating “incorrect” facts regarding the PTI government’s performance and challenged the ex-premier......
As the Pakistani rupee continued to depreciate against the US dollar, domestic gold prices on Friday hit an all-time high of Rs202,500 per tola after gaining Rs7,000.According to the All Sindh Sarafa......
PTI chief Imran Khan claimed on Friday that former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was behind a new plot to assassinate him for which the latter had “given money to a terrorist......
A gunman stormed Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran on Friday, killing the mission’s head of security in an attack Iran said was motivated by personal reasons but Baku labeled an act of......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced by-elections on March 16 for 33 National Assembly (NA) seats.The seats were vacated after NA Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf swiftly moved to......
LONDON: Amidst fanfare and the sound of dhol, PML-N senior vice president and chief organiser Maryam Nawaz left London on Thursday evening to begin the journey back to Pakistan, where she will resume......
Shares in the business empire of Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani nosedived Friday, extending this week’s losses to $45 billion, days after a US investment firm claimed it had committed “brazen”......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday that he fully expects an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this month, after which other multilateral lenders would also support the......
A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up......
Indian trailblazer Sania Mirza bowed out of Grand Slam tennis Friday with defeat in the Australian Open mixed-doubles final playing alongside Rohan Bopanna — her first playing partner 22 years......
Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country.Journalist and activist Amira......
ROURKELA: Hosts India and Argentina recorded thumping victories in the first round of classification matches of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup here at the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium on......
KUWAIT CITY: The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Thursday it has offered to let Russian and Belarusian athletes take part in the Asian Games, a first step towards them competing at the Paris......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federation Baseball will wait until Friday evening for the Indian team to arrive in Islamabad for the West Asia Cup before taking a definitive decision on the tournament’s......
RANCHI: Mitchell Santner says that time spent under Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Stephen Fleming at Chennai Super Kings will come in handy as he leads New Zealand in the T20 series in India.Santner had......
HOBART: Pakistan women’s winless run on their tour to Australia continued on Thursday when they were beaten in the second Twenty20 International at the Blundstone Arena to give the hosts an......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari on Thursday said the province had approached the centre for signing an agreement with Afghanistan to crack down on......
BAJAUR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq here on Thursday asked the PML-N-led coalition government to admit its failure and immediately step down in order to save the country from possible default,......
PESHAWAR: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Asim Ahmed has termed the current financial situation in the country as ‘critical’.“Economic situation [in the country] is critical and there is a......
KARACHI: All privately-managed schools in Sindh will now start at 8:30am in view of the cold weather conditions in the morning.The directorate of inspection/registration of private institutions,......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Thursday announced the launch of a women-only bus service in Karachi next week “to address the commuting problems of working women”.In a statement issued here, the......
KARACHI: A portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Nusrat Bhutto Colony on Thursday causing panic among passers-by and residents of the locality.Officials at the Shahrah-i-Noorjahan......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to restrain all television channels from airing the video of physical torture on a......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday expressed displeasure at the federal and Punjab governments for not submitting a complete record of the cases registered against PTI leader Dr Shahbaz......
LAHORE: There seems to be not many takers of the PML-N’s new narrative against former generals and judges within the party.Federal Minister Javed Latif, a close aide of party’s chief organiser Maryam......
The rupee continued to depreciate steeply in the interbank market on Friday, trading at Rs266.6 per dollar at 10:32am, down Rs11.17 or 4.58 per cent from yesterday’s close, according to data shared......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that frivolous, vexatious and speculative litigation unduly burden courts giving an artificial rise to pendency of cases and in turn clogs the justice......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Thursday concluded the three-day auction of plots, fetching a whopping Rs41 billion against 42 plots.The civic agency, amid the crippling......
STOCKHOLM: EU interior ministers on Thursday discussed how to return irregular migrants to their home countries more effectively — with some arguing for limiting visas to uncooperative......
WASHINGTON: A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded, Nasa said, emphasising that it poses no danger.Asteroid 2023 BU,......
KYIV: A blistering wave of Russian strikes targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure killed 11 people on Thursday, a day after Germany and the United States pledged heavy tanks for Kyiv.The latest......
SAN FRANCISCO: Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will reinstate former US president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after......
SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on Thursday with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British......
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar will lead Pakistan’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Jan 30 to present Pakistan’s national progress report......
LONDON: The trial pivoted on the ownership of multiple north London properties concluded on Thursday evening, marking the end of a series of hearings which saw Muttahida Qaumi Movement supremo Altaf......
KARACHI: Cairo’s Al Azhar University joined a number of Muslim countries on Thursday in condemning the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands and Sweden and called for a boycott of their......
Oil prices edged ahead for a second session on Friday, buoyed by stronger-than-expected US economic growth and hopes of a rapid recovery in Chinese demand as Covid-19 cases and deaths plunged from......
ISLAMABAD: The United States on Thursday vowed to continue supporting Pakistan in overcoming its unprecedented economic crisis and post-flood challenges.The assurance from the US was given by its......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the chief election commissioner (CEC) came under fire in the Senate as the row over PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry’s arrest reverberated in the......
KARACHI: The unprecedented 10.6 per cent rupee devaluation in a single day on Thursday would not only trigger a new wave of price hikes but the expensive loans after the interest rate hike would hit......
ISLAMABAD: A day after the arrest of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry by the Islamabad police in a ‘sedition’ case, the development continued to resonate in the mainstream and social media, prompting......
COMMENTATORS are often accused of using the English-language print pages to speak to a select few; at times only to each other. They retort by pointing out the atmosphere of suppression and......
IN the face of stark adversity, a drop of ‘re-imagination’ has fallen in the stagnant, stinky waters; stirring them, and creating the first small ripples. I hope the ripples grow into waves. Things......
LAHORE: The Punjab police on Thursday night registered a case against PTI leader Farrukh Habib and some party workers for allegedly attacking law enforcement personnel to get Fawad Chaudhry released......
ISLAMABAD: A new United Nations report warns that the global economic growth is projected to slow down to only 1.9 per cent in 2023, sharply lower than the 3pc in 2022. However, the report says, the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s generators produced more power than was required on Monday, causing voltage fluctuations that culminated in a system collapse that plunged 220 million people into darkness, an......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) by the federal government to look into the......
ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan removed the exchange rate cap giving way to over nine per cent depreciation of the rupee, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced fielding its......
ISLAMABAD: The government firmed up key principles on Thursday for hiking gas prices to the extent of full cost recovery so as to compel consumers to shift to electricity for space and water heating......
KARACHI: Foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) hit a new nine-year low of $3.678 billion during the week ended on Jan 20.The SBP on Thursday said that its forex holdings......
• Rupee depreciates by Rs24.54 in interbank market • Experts predict more pain as inflation set to jumpKARACHI: The forewarning of a meltdown as soon as the ‘unannounced’ peg on the dollar rate would......
IN the face of stark adversity, a drop of ‘re-imagination’ has fallen in the stagnant, stinky waters; stirring them, and creating the first small ripples. I hope the ripples grow into waves. Things......
