PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday cast doubt on the verdict — which is yet to to come — by the three-member Supreme Court bench hearing the petition against the postponement of polls in Punjab.A......
At least nine people died in a stampede during a Zakat distribution among families of a private company’s employees in Karachi’s Sindh Industrial & Trading Estate (SITE) area on Friday, according to......
A soldier embraced martyrdom during an exchange of fire with terrorists in the Mir Ali area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the army’s media wing said on Friday.According to the......
An Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday converted former prime minister Imran Khan’s non-bailable arrest warrants in a case related to alleged threats made to a judge into a bailable......
PTI leader Azhar Mashwani returned home on Friday, he announced on Twitter, more than a week after he was picked up.“Alhumdullilah I have just returned home safe and sound,” Mashwani tweeted. “Your......
Finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that China had rolled over a $2 billion loan that matured last week, providing relief during the nation’s acute balance of payment crisis.Locking in a......
AS our judges, generals and ruling-class politicians continue to engage in myopic, factional battles for money and power, the teeming masses are increasingly restive.Every day there are new reports......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Friday “disregarded” a judgement issued by Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Aminuddin Khan of the Supreme Court, in which they had called for the......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has stopped the caretaker government of Punjab from handing over at least 45,267 acres of land in three districts — Bhakkar, Khushab, and Sahiwal — of the province to the......
After Justice Aminuddin Khan’s recusal a day earlier, a new Supreme Court (SC) bench will on Friday take up PTI’s petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to postpone polls to......
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court outgoing Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan said here on Thursday that all stakeholders had to work together to resolve the political and economic instability in the......
PESHAWAR: A local court on Thursday convicted a man of an acid attack against a woman and her brother and awarded life imprisonment to him.The convict was also ordered by additional district and......
ABBOTTABAD: Two workers died in an accident at the phosphate mines in Qalandarabad Tarnawai Kalobandi here the other day.According to reports, the two miners were killed when side walls of an illegal......
LAHORE: A Human Rights Observer 2023 fact sheet reveals that the religious content against minorities increased in curriculum and textbooks during the year 2022 and a number of perennial and new......
LONDON: England’s resurgent Test team can win the Ashes “comfortably” on home soil this year and make up for their 4-0 drubbing in Australia in the last series, fast bowler Ollie Robinson said.Coach......
LONDON: Triple Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty said he will miss next week’s British swimming championships as he focuses on his mental health ahead of the 2024 Paris Games.The 28-year-old......
The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday with rescue operations ongoing, a local official told AFP.Dozens of worshippers celebrating a major......
KARACHI: An aggravated gas crisis across the city, especially over the past three day of Ramazan, has made citizens’ life miserable as supply remained available even at Sehri and Iftar timings......
LONDON: Jonny Bairstow hopes to be fit for England’s opening Test of the summer against Ireland in June, according to Yorkshire head coach Ottis Gibson.Bairstow’s form last year came to an abrupt......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan caused a major upset by beating a strong Australian team 2-1 in their quarter-final tie of the ITF World Tennis Junior Team Competition Asia/Oceania final qualifying in Kuching,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board’s interim Management Committee chairman Najam Sethi confirmed on Thursday the possibility of the national side playing their 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup matches......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution demanding an increase in the women’s quota in all government departments from 5 to 33 per cent and establishment of a separate......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday suggested that the Constitution be revisited to update the clause that required a census to be conducted every so often, so that the country could......
SYDNEY: Rapidly melting Antarctic ice threatens to dramatically slow deep-water currents in the world’s oceans, scientists say, impacting the spread of fresh water, oxygen and life-sustaining......
KARACHI: An additional district and sessions court on Thursday granted transit bail to lawyer Hassaan Niazi, a nephew of PTI chief Imran Khan, in a case lodged against him at the Nowshera Cantt......
WASHINGTON: Militants who carry out attacks inside Pakistan have obtained US weapons left behind in Afghanistan, a US-backed broadcasting service claimed in its latest report on the......
THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday rejected Iran’s bid to unblock nearly $2 billion in central bank assets frozen by the United States, but ruled Washington had illegally......
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday and assured him of “full support” on behalf of all parties......
AMRITSAR: A firebrand fugitive Sikh separatist has posted a video taunting Indian authorities after a fruitless almost two-week manhunt involving thousands of police and internet shutdowns.Amritpal......
MANILA: At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said on Thursday.The Lady Mary Joy 3 was travelling from Zamboanga City on......
WHEN environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam started the cycling group Critical Mass Lahore 14 years ago in the city, his plan was to promote “sustainable urban transport” as well as the idea that......
EXTREMISM and intolerance are straining the social fabric of societies. When a state fails to regulate its religious affairs and institutions, it is likely that radical elements within some of these......
ISLAMABAD: The 969-megawatt Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project would get back to power generation by July after a year-long closure due to tunnel collapse and K-Electric (KE) is entering into a 10-year......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has warned the general public about unregistered and fraudulent lenders operating through mobile applications.An inquiry initiated by the CCP......
KARACHI: The central bank’s foreign exchange reserves dropped for the first time in six weeks, shrinking by some $354 million during the week that ended on March 24, it said on Thursday.Meanwhile,......
A New York grand jury on Thursday indicted Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star during his 2016 campaign, making him the first former US president to face criminal charges.The......
RAWALPINDI: The Senate Standing Committee on Aviation was on Thursday informed that a significant number of pilots have recently fled the country as a result of major salary cuts in the form of high......
ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking registration of a criminal case against former army chief retired Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-director general Inter Services......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday kicked off outsourcing of operations and land assets at three major airports to be run through a public-private partnership, a finance ministry statement said, a......
• 38 posts of judges lying vacant, state minister says JCP not convened in a long time • Lawmakers protest withdrawal of power subsidy to textile industryISLAMABAD: The performance and working of the......
AS our judges, generals and ruling-class politicians continue to engage in myopic, factional battles for money and power, the teeming masses are increasingly restive.Every day there are new reports......
