Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Moonis Elahi said late on Monday that authorities had conducted another raid at Kunjah House, the residence of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday ordered the immediate restoration of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia that was banned by the telecom regulator last week for not “blocking/removing......
India unveiled on Monday its largest helicopter factory, which can turn out at least 1,000 aircraft a year, as part of a defence self-reliance push to counter China’s growing assertiveness.New Delhi......
Ex-prime minister Imran Khan on Monday appealed to PTI workers to register with the party’s district presidents for the ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive), vowing to launch the movement within......
Manchester City has been referred to an independent commission over more than 100 alleged breaches of Premier League finance rules, England’s top-flight soccer league said on Monday.The breaches......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered police to not take further action against Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid in cases filed against him in Karachi and Balochistan in......
The Islamabad police said on Monday that it was improving security arrangements at the capital’s F-9 Park, where a woman was raped at gunpoint last week.On Feb 2, a first information report (FIR) was......
Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) jumped on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index reaching 41,102.82 points at 3:14pm, up 631.66 points, or 1.56 per cent.Intermarket Securities’ Head of......
Beijing confirmed on Monday a balloon spotted flying over Latin America is Chinese, while the United States worked to recover what it claimed was an unmanned spy craft it shot down at the......
In another crown for Pakistan’s fighting game community, Atif Butt emerged as the new “King of the Iron Fist” on Sunday after winning the Tekken World Tour 2022 videogame tournament in Amsterdam,......
Lawmakers of India’s main opposition party kicked off planned protests at some state-run companies on Monday over the crisis at Adani group, whose seven listed firms saw another sell-off that drove......
Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Monday that the government has rescheduled the All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad — called to discuss important challenges being faced by......
BENGALURU: The Australian cricket team’s injury concerns continue to mount before their first Test against India with seasoned fast bowler Josh Hazlewood ruled out of next week’s opener in Nagpur,......
NOTTINGHAM: Nottingham Forest’s Brennan Johnson scored the winner but it was debutant keeper Keylor Navas they had to thank for a gritty 1-0 Premier League home victory over Leeds United on......
ISLAMABAD: Usman Wazir extended his winning streak as he retained the WBC World Youth title after knocking out Thai opponent Krung Kling in Dubai on Sunday.Usman is undefeated in his last 10......
QUETTA: Six sixes in an over, a 45-year-old Shahid Afridi batting like a teenager and match stoppage before a thrilling finish; all was at offer at the Bugti Stadium as cricket returned to the venue......
The body of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who passed away in Dubai a day earlier, will be repatriated to Pakistan today (Monday).According to Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra......
KARACHI: Political, religious and social organisations, educational institutions and government departments took out processions and organised different programmes across Sindh on Sunday to observe......
KARACHI: The Sindh government and a non-governmental organisation, the Patients’ Aid Foundation, have entered into a formal working partnership to operate various facilities at the Jinnah......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party, which emerged as the single largest party in January 15 local government elections in Karachi, on Sunday asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct the......
KARACHI: Giving a week-long ultimatum to the PPP-led Sindh government to meet all its conditions the ruling party had agreed to last year, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Sunday announced......
Oil prices inched up in early trade on Monday after falling around eight per cent last week to more than three-week lows as jitters over major economies outweighed signs of a demand recovery in......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Thousands of beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), especially the illiterate belonging to the rural areas of the district, are being cheated in payment of......
KABUL: An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, according to an Afghan foreign ministry......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi activists protested on Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that sparked outrage in the conservative......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has rejected bail plea of an accused charged with double murder of his daughter-in-law and another person on pretext of honour in Swat district last year.A......
MOHMAND: Thousands of people poured onto the roads for the third day on Sunday in different towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, condemning the brutal attack on the Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines in......
LONDON: Former British prime minister Liz Truss blamed on Sunday the economic “orthodoxy” in the country’s finance ministry, other nations and in parts of the governing Conservative Party for......
BEIJING: A highway pile-up in central China has killed 16 people and injured dozens, authorities said on Sunday, with footage aired on local media showing burning trucks and smashed cars.Nearly 50......
ISLAMABAD: National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) on Sunday held a stakeholders’ consultation to discuss continuous increase in reported incidents of domestic violence and possible......
ISLAMABAD: To minimise degradation to natural environment and disturbing wildlife in the Margalla Hills, the civic body on Sunday decided to impose Section 144, putting a ban on feeding wild animals,......
Former Prime Minster Imran Khan says if returned to power after the elections, he would have no choice except to support the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in stabilising the country’s......
Recently, the rupee lost roughly 20 per cent value within seven trading sessions. It fell from Rs230.89 to a US dollar on January 25 to 276.57 per dollar on February 3 in the interbank market. The......
KARACHI: Senator Mushahid Hussain has said if the true potential of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (Cpec) is exploited, Pakistan will not need bailouts from the International Monetary Fund to......
The ghastly terror attack in Peshawar last week traumatised Pakistanis. Besides the tragic loss of lives and property, it reminded people of their persistent vulnerability.......
The recent deaths of collectors of subsidised flour bags and the wheat deliveries protected by armed guards prove the country’s unrest. This poses a huge question for economists, analysts and......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will open its office in Pakistan very soon to lead the Living Indus Initiative programme for which the UNEP and the government are in......
ISLAMABAD: Political leaders on Sunday vowed to continue raising voices for the right of self-determination for the people of Indian-held Kashmir as events were held across the country to mark the......
QUETTA: Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) founder Senator Saeed Ahmed Hashmi has expressed serious concerns over the prevailing political and economic situation in the country.Speaking to the media here......
Alfred Grannas German Ambassador to Pakistan “In the longer term, the investment potential in Pakistan is huge,” says Alfred Grannas, the German Ambassador to Pakistan. In an......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed prominent businessman Jawad Sohrab Malik as Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) with the status of a state minister.With the appointment......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said the ruling coalition was aware of the impact of hyperinflation on the masses as she blamed former prime......
When Pakistan’s dollar reserves fell below $5 billion in December, and its credit default risk had reportedly become too high for analysts to ignore the possibility of an imminent default, the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that ‘imported government’ is massively increasing the inflation by accepting all terms of International Monetary......
I first met Gen Musharraf at Army House in Rawalpindi, ten days after the coup which brought him to power in Oct 1999. His piquant sense of humour, frankness and affable personality came as a marked......
A major 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, levelling buildings across several cities and causing damage in neighbouring Syria.The quake struck......
TEHRAN: Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami and former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi have both called for political changes amid the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.As......
JUBA: Pope Francis appealed on Sunday to the people of South Sudan to lay down their “weapons of hatred” at an open-air mass on the final day of his pilgrimage to a country blighted by violence and......
BAKHMUT: Heavy fighting was underway on Sunday in the northern parts of the frontline hotspot Bakhmut, while Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv wounded five......
Ishaq Dar’s boastful comeback has deepened Pakistan’s economic turmoil. In a fairly short stint, Mr Dar has not only worsened his party’s political prospects but has also brought Pakistan on the......
CONCEPCION: At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said on Saturday night.“We want to......
At the Apex Committee meeting over terrorism in Peshawar on Friday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif complained that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visiting the......
BEIJING: Beijing on Sunday blasted the Pentagon’s decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over North America, accusing the United States of “clearly overreacting and......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has sought exemption for execution of foreign-funded projects worth over a billion dollars, after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had imposed a ban on......
China’s policymakers plan to show more support for domestic demand this year but are likely to stop short of splashing out big on direct consumer subsidies, keeping their focus mainly on investment,......
With Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif calling the shots, PML-N hawks are flapping their wings again and are not afraid to ruffle a few feathers in an election year.Maybe the party thinks that in......
ISLAMABAD: Amid challenging engagements with international lending agencies to unlock external flows for the balance of payments and flood recovery, the Centre has cast off Punjab’s Rs400 billion......
Pakistan is too big to fail. Its geostrategic location, its burgeoning population, its nuclear arsenal. For almost two decades these have been wielded as a threat to the neoliberal order: allow us to......
QUETTA: Seven people were injured in two terrorist attacks, one of them said to be a suicide bombing, on Sunday.The first incident took place near the Police Lines on Gulistan Road and the other on......
While the economy teeters on the brink and a new surge of militant violence threatens the country’s security, the political situation descends into more chaos. The country’s......
• Calls for introspection to find answers to unresolved issues of Kashmir, Palestine • Special AJK assembly session, symbolic human chains mark Solidarity Day • Shehbaz says IMF scrutinising every......
Pakistan is too big to fail. Its geostrategic location, its burgeoning population, its nuclear arsenal. For almost two decades these have been wielded as a threat to the neoliberal order: allow us to......
While the economy teeters on the brink and a new surge of militant violence threatens the country’s security, the political situation descends into more chaos. The country’s......
When Pakistan’s dollar reserves fell below $5 billion in December, and its credit default risk had reportedly become too high for analysts to ignore the possibility of an imminent default, the......
