Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday said the provincial government was going for an independent audit of the free flour distribution programme in the wake of “baseless......
The PTI is taking out protests across different cities in a show of support and solidarity with the Supreme Court, Constitution and Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial amid the stand-off......
The Islamabad Police have summoned PTI Chairman Imran Khan to the city’s Police Lines Headquarters on May 10 and 11 to record his statement in four terror cases pertaining to unrest outside the......
Authorities in India’s northeastern state of Manipur have evacuated some 20,000 people to camps under army protection to prevent escalation of ethnic violence just days after clashes between tribal......
Bowler Matt Henry is hopeful New Zealand can avoid a series whitewash in Pakistan by producing an improved display in Sunday’s fifth and final one-day international against the world number one......
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto on Saturday stressed the importance of “peace and stability in Afghanistan” for the region’s socio-economic development and vowed to work together with all......
Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years.Charles succeeded his mother Queen......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday declared the notices issued by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi illegal in connection with an......
NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul has been ruled out of the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season and India’s World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia after he......
PARIS: Lionel Messi apologised to Paris St Germain and his teammates on Friday after being suspended for making an unauthorized trip to Saudi Arabia earlier this week and missing a training session......
LONDON: Erik ten Hag insists Manchester United’s last-gasp defeat at Brighton & Hove Albion will not derail their bid to qualify for the Champions League.Alexis Mac Allister’s stoppage-time penalty......
LAHORE: Players from six countries have arrived in Lahore to participate in the 22nd Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle East (BFAME) Championship starting here at a local hotel on Saturday.Besides......
MANSEHRA: The Kaghan Development Authority (KDA) head on Friday said a European Union delegation had agreed to a request of the uplift body for financial assistance to execute five major projects to......
SWAT: Pakhtun leaders on Friday complained that dozens of their community members were killed in the last two months but both parliament and judiciary were silent about those killings.They showed up......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker government has formally urged the federal government to immediately make the outstanding payment of Rs62 billion net hydel profit to it and increase the......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court full bench on Friday reserved its verdict on petitions of PTI leaders challenging the constitution of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to investigate the cases of violence......
RAWALPINDI: A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader, Ali Amin Gandapur, was released from Sukkur jail the Punjab government sought a report from Rawalpindi police regarding a criminal......
KARACHI: Another child suspected of having monkeypox (mpox) reported at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) on Friday.The nine-year-old girl, along with her family, had arrived at Karachi......
• Province imported 400,000 tonnes of wheat, minister tells PA • Says flour price should be Rs125 per kgKARACHI: While the price of flour has skyrocketed, the provincial food minister has informed......
KARACHI: Showing compassion for Master Abdullah Naveed, who is suffering from thalassemia, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber made the boy’s lifetime dream come true by......
ISLAMABAD: Experts at a discussion warned that banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was forging nexus with Baloch separatists and local militant groups based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan,......
ROME: The United Nations food agency’s world price index rose in April for the first time in a year but is still some 20 per cent up on a record high hit in March 2022 following Russia’s invasion of......
KARACHI: The business week ended on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on a bullish note even though investors’ engagement remained relatively low owing to the weekend factor.Arif Habib Ltd said the index......
KARACHI: Bank Alfalah Ltd announced on Friday its entry into the venture capital (VC) ecosystem through an agreement to acquire a 7.2 per cent equity stake worth Rs140 million in QistBazaar, a......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Friday cleared a total of six projects costing Rs227 billion, mostly in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir, including three larger......
SINCE its creation almost 80 years ago, the UN has served as a vehicle for coordinated collective action for global welfare and has offered mechanisms for socioeconomic development. Multilateralism......
NEW DELHI: India is considering overturning a ban on foreign investment in its nuclear power industry and allowing greater participation by domestic private firms, two government sources told......
KARACHI: Pakistan needs to repay another $3.7 billion in external debt by the end of June 30 this year, Bloomberg reported on Friday.During the entire current fiscal year, the country has been......
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), rose to a new high of 48.35 per cent for the week ending May 4, official data showed on Friday.However, on a week-on-week......
SAN FRANCISCO: Sonos Inc and Alphabet’s Google LLC will face off in a San Francisco federal trial on Monday over claims that Google copied Sonos’ patented smart-speaker technology in wireless audio......
TEHRAN: Iran has expelled four Azerbaijani diplomats, state media reported on Friday, saying the move was “in response” to Baku’s expulsion of Iranian embassy staff in April after months of......
WHILE day-to-day decisions made regarding Pakistan’s foreign policy relations invariably lie in the government domain, strategically important and long-term choices, such as whether Pakistan should......
ROME: An anti-vax campaigner on Friday assaulted Italy’s former premier Giuseppe Conte, who imposed strict restrictions at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, his political party said.The Five......
ISLAMABAD: Top Chinese and Afghan diplomats touched down in Islamabad on Friday to participate in bilateral and trilateral meetings on a range of issues, including security and the economy.Foreign......
LONDON: From a new face on the country’s stamps and coins to a change of words for the national anthem, Britain has seen a number of alterations since the death of Queen Elizabeth in September and......
KURRAM: Protests erupted in Parachinar on Friday after the burial of seven people, including teachers, who were killed by unidentified gunmen at a school on Thursday. The town remained closed to......
PARIS: The World Health Organisation may no longer consider Covid-19, a global health emergency, but the virus is not going anywhere.While the UN agency’s lifting of its highest alert level on Friday......
TEKNAF (Bangladesh): Rohingya refugees who visited Myanmar on Friday said they would not voluntarily agree to return there, after touring facilities meant to accommodate the repatriation of the......
LAHORE: Amid the ongoing judiciary-executive tussle, PTI Chairman Imran Khan has made an impassioned appeal to the whole nation to come out of their homes on Saturday (today) to give a message to the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has initiated criminal proceedings against its employees behind the saga involving unauthorised access to data of the family of......
ISLAMABAD: In what could be termed an extension of the bitter polarisation already plaguing the politics and the judiciary, the country’s two premier lawyer bodies have drawn daggers, with none ready......
NEW DELHI: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting concluded in Goa on Friday, paving the way for a summit of the group’s leaders in New Delhi on July 3-4.Despite......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has again urged the international community to seek widest possible consensus for reforming the UN Security Council (UNSC), instead of endorsing arbitrary changes.Addressing......
• CJP says court has kept cool as ‘justice can’t be dispensed in rage’ • Coalition tells court willing to continue talks with PTI • Qureshi says no way out, terms govt ‘inflexible’ISLAMABAD: Chief......
• Bilawal hits back after Jaishankar repeats cross-border attacks allegation at SCO ministers’ meeting • New Delhi told to reverse August 2019 action in held Kashmir for revival of......
SINCE its creation almost 80 years ago, the UN has served as a vehicle for coordinated collective action for global welfare and has offered mechanisms for socioeconomic development. Multilateralism......
WHILE day-to-day decisions made regarding Pakistan’s foreign policy relations invariably lie in the government domain, strategically important and long-term choices, such as whether Pakistan should......
