Israel committed to stopping authorisation of any settler outposts in the occupied West Bank for six months during a meeting on Sunday with Palestinian officials in Jordan when the sides pledged to......
No one knew whether it was Karachi Kings’ last HBL Pakistan Super League match of the season on their home turf at the National Stadium on Sunday, but Imad Wasim and company were treating it as if it......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday criticised the higher judiciary, and called out what he said were its “double standards” when dealing with legal matters of PTI chief Imran......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi on Sunday announced that HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in Lahore and Rawalpindi would “continue as scheduled”.Sethi expressed his gratitude......
President Vladimir Putin has cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people — and said he is forced to take into......
An Australian archaeologist and two Papua New Guinea researchers held for a week by 20 armed men in a remote part of the Pacific Island nation were released on Sunday, while their captors remain at......
Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had arrested three people in connection with the murder of 28-year old model Abby Choi, whose legs were found in a refrigerator in a house on the city’s......
At least 33 people have died after a migrant shipwreck off the eastern coast of Italy’s Calabria region, ANSA and other Italian news agencies reported on Sunday.Some 27 bodies were found washed up on......
By-elections for Rajanpur’s NA-193 National Assembly seat commenced on Sunday despite security concerns by the Punjab caretaker government.The NA-193 seat had fallen vacant following the death of......
Just like in the World Cup final, Paris Saint-Germain teammates Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go up against one another for The Best FIFA Men’s Player prize for 2022 on Monday, with Ballon d’Or......
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Central Asia hoping that greater US engagement will reassure former Soviet republics rattled by the Ukraine war, although Russia’s historic clout......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Saturday made history by electing a woman secretary for the first time since its inception way back in 1893.Sabahat Rizvi bagged 4,310 votes......
The home of a Palestinian man behind a fatal attack on Israelis is to be demolished by Israeli authorities, even though it was built with compensation paid to them after one of their relatives was......
• Inaugurates “dynamic registration” of deserving women through Nadra • Says Rs1,000 “could change fortune of a poor person”KARACHI: PPP chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on......
KARACHI: A sessions court has acquitted three employees of a textile mill in a case pertaining to theft of water from a main line of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) due to lack of......
An explosion was reported inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan’s Barkhan on Sunday morning, according to DawnNewsTV.Footage run on television showed a number of injured people being taken to the......
• Further hike in flour prices feared due to short wheat supply to mills • Milk being sold at Rs210 per litre • Chicken boneless meat reaches Rs1,100-1,200 per kg • Mutton, veal meat available at......
MANAMA: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc topped the morning timesheets on the final day of Formula One’s pre-season test in Bahrain on Saturday but said Red Bull remained the team to beat.The Monegasque......
KARACHI: The stroll towards the Fazal Mahmood Enclosure on Friday evening unnecessarily became a long tedious walk of around 1.5 kilometres. Though the toil was not unbearable, thanks to the pleasant......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s women cricketers will go where none of their male counterparts have gone when they contest their very first World Cup final at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday.The hosts......
ISLAMABAD: Two labourers were killed and four others sustained injuries when a shuttering of the under-construction Bhara Kahu flyover collapsed on Saturday morning.According to some eye-witnesses,......
RAWALPINDI: Due to a strike by contractual sanitation employees at Islamabad International Airport (IIA) on Friday night, dustbins were overflowing in the departure lounges with foul smell emanating......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to evict police officials illegally occupying 200 government flats since 2007. The court also ordered......
LOWER DIR: A young TikToker shot dead his father and injured his mother over their refusal to return his smart phone here on Saturday, relatives and the police said.They said Hasnain’s father Sher......
LAHORE: Shaheen Shah Afridi had a straight answer: “It’s a matter for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to deal with.” Amid the uncertainty over the staging of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches......
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has launched a fresh probe against Farhat Shahzadi, known as Farah Khan, a close friend of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, and Awami Muslim......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Saturday made history by electing a woman secretary for the first time since its inception way back in 1893.Sabahat Rizvi bagged 4,310 votes......
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has signalled the end of her remarkable innings as India’s key political pivot and told her followers at a party plenary on Saturday that she was happy that......
KARACHI: Trading in the stock market started in the outgoing week on a positive note as parliament passed the mini-budget aimed at generating additional Rs170 billion.Arif Habib Ltd said another......
ISLAMABAD: The Centre’s reluctance to release the committed development and non-development funds has put PTI-led Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government in a tough situation to deal with the brewing......
LAHORE: The power regulator has refused to accept the industry’s demand to end fixed charges for the maximum demand indicator (MDI), a system for measuring the maximum amount of electrical energy......
BENGALURU: Group of 20 (G20) nations have some disagreements over restructuring debt for distressed economies, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Saturday, adding that banning......
KARACHI: High yields and tax-exempted profits could attract foreign investment to Pakistan, bankers and financial experts said, though it can only happen once the country manages to secure a $1......
• Insists Pakistan should boost forex reserves and not take new loans to pay old ones • Sets up an irradiation plant for exporting mangoes to USWASHINGTON: Pakistan needs to end this practice of......
KANO: Nigeria’s presidential election was marked by long delays at some polling stations on Saturday that did not deter large crowds of voters hoping for a reset after years of worsening violence and......
NEW DELHI: In a sign of the times, India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati will now entirely rely on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-backed news agency, Hindusthan Samachar, for its daily......
In September 1976, a six-story apartment building collapsed in Karachi. Over 100 people were killed. The building had been constructed in 1975. According to newspaper reports, the owner of the......
KARACHI: A number of former PTI lawmakers approached the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday to challenge the decision of the National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to accept their......
QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) on Saturday threatened to consider parting ways with the ruling PDM alliance if the federal and provincial governments did not immediately address......
ALTHOUGH most commentators and analysts agree that what is being witnessed today is chaos and a slide into anarchy, optimists may still argue some good will come out of it, as whatever has been......
EARLIER this month the United Nations Human Rights Council wrapped up the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a state-driven process by which UN members review the human......
LAHORE: Admitting that the ‘system’ was failing to allow capable people become part of political mechanism, former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi regretted on Saturday how politicians had been......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has rejected the Punjab government’s request and decided to hold the by-election in Rajanpur on Sunday (today).The by-election will take place......
QUETTA: The police surgeon who conducted a medical check-up of Granaz and her five children said on Saturday that evidence showed the woman’s teenage daughter was not only tortured but was also......
KHUZDAR: Two police officers lost their lives and another two were critically injured when a magnetic bomb attached to their vehicle exploded in Khuzdar on Saturday.Police officials said the bomb......
• Pindi police shift detained party leaders, workers to prisons in Shahpur and Hafizabad • Fawad says PTI to launch ‘nationwide campaign to save’ institution if ‘blackmail’ continuesLAHORE /......
• Matches from Tuesday may be shifted to Karachi if deadlock persists • Govt agrees to light up teams’ route to stadium, says no further talks until board commits funds • PCB accuses provincial govt......
EARLIER this month the United Nations Human Rights Council wrapped up the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a state-driven process by which UN members review the human......
ALTHOUGH most commentators and analysts agree that what is being witnessed today is chaos and a slide into anarchy, optimists may still argue some good will come out of it, as whatever has been......
