Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Asim Munir, among others, had made “tremendous efforts” for securing financial pledges from friendly countries and......
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat in Damascus on Tuesday, state media reported, ending more than a decade of diplomatic deep-freeze between the two......
Both the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday submitted their respective reports to the Supreme Court (SC) pertaining to the release of Rs21 billion......
Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was fined Tuesday for breaching the Indian Premier League (IPL) code of conduct, after his side Royal Challengers Bangalore went down to Chennai in a nail-biting......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday took up for hearing PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s petition seeking to restrain authorities in Punjab from launching a police operation at his Zaman Park residence......
An Islamabad district and sessions court on Tuesday granted post-arrest bail to PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur who was arrested earlier this month in a case pertaining to threatening national......
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in the process of restoring diplomatic ties and reopening embassies, two officials said, more than two years after Arab states ended a boycott of Doha......
About 300 people lined up at Apple’s store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook who inaugurated the first retail store run by the company in India, underscoring......
Shorn off their captain and their two frontline pacers, and on the back of two emphatic and demoralising defeats, it would have been easy for New Zealand to down tools and go through the motions......
China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks, state media Xinhua reported Tuesday.The separate phone calls between......
MANSEHRA: A Chinese national working at the Dasu hydropower project was taken into police custody on Monday following unrest, after labourers at the dam site accused him of making blasphemous remarks......
New Zealand eked out a thrilling four-run victory in the third Twenty20 International against Pakistan in Lahore to stay alive in the series and all-rounder Daryl Mitchell said the win would give......
A landslide during a thunder and lightning storm on the main road through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber Pass buried more than 20 trucks on Tuesday, killing at least two people, with dozens more feared......
KARACHI: While the intercity bus and coach operators have already hiked prices ahead of Eidul Fitr, the Sindh government on Monday warned of strict action against the transporters if they attempted......
KARACHI: As critically ill elephant Noor Jehan fights for her survival with each passing moment, what’s preventing her from getting back on her feet is her partially paralysed hind leg, sources told......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Monday set up a protest camp outside the Karachi office of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) against “massive mismanagement and flaws in the census......
LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that Prime Minister Mian Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan have agreed to start negotiations for holding general......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Monday said that the security situation in the province didn’t favour the holding of election to the provincial assembly and the Supreme Court......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday re-summoned Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf senior leader Asad Umar in the prohibited funding case on April 27.Mr Umar had not appeared before the......
GALLE: Sadeera Samarawickrama and Dinesh Chandimal hit unbeaten centuries before Prabath Jayasuriya claimed a five-for as Sri Lanka put visitors Ireland to the sword on the second day of the first......
BERLIN: Ten-man Union Berlin were held to a 1-1 home draw by VfL Bochum on Sunday but a point was enough for the club from the capital to move up to third in the Bundesliga standings.The result moved......
NOTTINGHAM: Injury-hit Manchester United beat relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest 2-0 on Sunday to strengthen their push for a top-four Premier League finish.Erik ten Hag’s men took full......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have stopped the process to construct an official residence for the chief election commissioner (CEC)......
LAHORE:The Punjab Police arrested eight members of the Kokani and Lathani gangs and destroyed and burnt several hideouts of the robbers in the Katcha area on Monday.A spokesperson for the Punjab......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court two-judge bench on Monday expressed its displeasure over the federal government for showing its inability to submit the complete record of Toshakhana articles from 1947 to......
ISLAMABAD: The murderer of Noor Mukadam has raised 23 objections on his conviction.Zahir Jaffer challenged the Islamabad High Court (IHC)’s decision of upholding his conviction by the trial court in......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights was annoyed at the Islamabad police chief for declining to share information about arrest of PTI workers on the grounds that the matter was......
NEW YORK: A US judge on Monday rejected former president Donald Trump’s request to delay a scheduled April 25 trial over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has expressed serious concerns over what he called an undue interference of courts in the administrative affairs of the province.In a......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations warned on Monday that the number of children suffering from malnutrition in the flood-affected areas had greatly increased compared to the pre-flood situation, which was......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that normalising relations with Saudi Arabia would be a “giant leap” towards ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.“We want......
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden’s administration is set to move ahead with the sale of a modernisation package for Turkiye’s existing F-16 aircraft, after leaders of US congressional committees......
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) shrank 11.6 per cent in February over the same month last year causing massive layoffs, especially in export-oriented textile industries, showed data......
WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are buying petroleum products from Russia at steep discounts, ignoring US objections, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Monday.Last......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly failed to initiate proceedings to elect a new leader of the house for the fourth consecutive day, on Monday.The session was......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government approached the Supreme Court on Monday with a plea for an early hearing of its contempt petition against the PTI leadership for allegedly reneging on assurances......
KHARTOUM: Fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, left hospitals damaged and medical supplies and food in short supply on Monday after......
ISLAMABAD: A representative conference of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Monday threatened to launch a countrywide movement if the Supreme Court failed to recall its April 13 suspension of the......
A SENIOR Indian minister has made an unusual claim about the well-being of Indian Muslims. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a conference in Washington that Muslims couldn’t be doing as badly......
I HAVE a confession to make: there is not much left to say this week. The political crisis, the economic meltdown and the constitutional impasse — all seem to have been done to death.There is a brain......
MANSEHRA: A Chinese national working at the Dasu hydropower project was taken into police custody on Monday following unrest, after labourers at the dam site accused him of making blasphemous remarks......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses diplomats during the iftar, on Monday.—APP ISLAMABAD: Calling out India’s ‘exploitation’ of the Pulwama attack for political......
LAHORE: A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) formed a three-member panel to initiate talks to bring down political temperature, its spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said the party leaders and......
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent move to evolve in-house consensus on the issue of initiating a dialogue with the opposition, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the heads of the......
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday referred to a full bench a petition of former prime minister Imran Khan challenging the registration of over 100 cases against him and......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has allocated Rs21 billion for elections to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies on Supreme Court’s order and sought finance ministry’s nod to release the......
• NA rejects Rs21bn grant to ECP; law minister says judges stand divided over issue • Vote on motion allowed through supplementary agenda • Breaking with tradition, house transacts business in first......
Lahore: Despite Iftikhar’s best efforts, the Kiwis clinched victory off the last ball.—Murtaza Ali / White Star LAHORE: In a game they needed to win in order to keep the series......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Monday passed a resolution paying tributes to late religious affairs minister Mufti Abdul Shakoor, who died in a road accident on Saturday night, and asked for......
