The Lahore High Court (LHC) will resume hearing a petition seeking the release of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan as the journalist’s whereabouts remain unknown for the fourth day on Sunday.In the court......
Mountaineer Naila Kiani on Sunday became the second Pakistani woman to climb the 8,848-metre-tall Mount Everest — the highest mountain in the world — situated in Nepal.Separately, climber Sajid Ali......
Teams from three countries will tour Australia next summer, Cricket Australia said on Sunday, with the men’s test fixtures taking place during a truncated window in December and January.Australia’s......
Turks voted in a pivotal election on Sunday, poised either to unseat President Tayyip Erdogan and halt his government’s increasingly authoritarian path or usher in a third decade of his rule.The vote......
RAWALPINDI: Days after installations of the armed forces, including the General Headquarters (GHQ), were besieged by a mob in protest against the arrest of PTI chief Imran Khan, banners and......
Pakistan’s external financing requirements have not been changed in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over bailout funds, the IMF Resident Representative in Pakistan said, denying......
Cyclone Mocha began to crash ashore at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Sunday, Bangladesh’s weather office said, uprooting trees and bringing driving rain to a region home to hundreds of thousands......
KARACHI: Filly Princess Sadia looks fancied to clinch the Liberty Cup when it takes place in the Gymkhana race meeting here at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.With two back-to-back wins under her......
LAHORE: An impressive unbeaten century by Shahzaib Khan inspired Pakistan U-19 to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Bangladesh U-19 in the fourth youth one-day match at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Shaheens defeated Zimbabwe ‘A’ by an innings and 41 runs on the last day of the second four-day match at the Mutare Sports Club in Mutare on Saturday.The victory gave the Shaheens......
Across the 20th century, intellectuals played an important role in political parties and governments, both democratic and authoritarian. According to Richmond University’s Professor of Politics......
Constituency politics is tough business. It gets even tougher when the public support that party candidates are counting on for their electoral victories is quickly dwindling.Voters can be brutal and......
RAWALPINDI: Former senator Advocate Babar Awan held a meeting with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar in Adiala jail on Saturday.Moreover,Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, daughter of PTI......
RAWALPINDI: Metro Bus Service resumed its operation between Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Saturday after four days of closure due to protests of PTI workers and supporters over arrest of Imran Khan in......
KARACHI: As many as 63 workers of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf were granted bail in cases pertaining to rioting and violence by different judicial magistrates on Saturday.However, the......
LOWER DIR: The Lower Dir police have arrested 119 people for participating in violent protests and damaging government property, vandalism, blocking national highways, resisting law-enforcement......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ordered the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to unblock Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) of a transgender person.The court observed......
LAHORE: An accountability court on Saturday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of former chief minister Usman Buzdar in an inquiry of illegal assets by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) with......
PESHAWAR: A two-day Jashan-i-Baharan spring festival began in the Kharasha-Khwa Storikhel area of Orakzai tribal district on Saturday.Director-General (Forests) Tahir Orakzai inaugurated the event......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Police have registered a case against 55 PTI protesters, 25 of them nominated, including former federal minister Ms Zartaj Gul and a former adviser to the chief minister, under the......
UNITED NATIONS: Syria has extended for three months humanitarian aid access into quake-stricken rebel-held areas from Turkiye via two border crossings, a United Nations representative said on......
WHAT a dramatic few days these have been, even by Pakistani standards — triggered by the arrest of PTI leader Imran Khan on Tuesday in Islamabad and his triumphant return to Lahore late Friday, after......
SYDNEY: Rescuers were scouring the waters off a remote beach in South Australia on Saturday for traces of a surfer believed to have been killed in a shark attack.Emergency services were called to the......
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported its highest temperature in 40 years on Saturday, officials said, as a blistering heatwave burns through large parts of South and Southeast Asia.Saturday’s temperature of......
NIIGATA: The G7 plans to launch a partnership scheme to diversify supply chains this year, the group’s finance ministers said on Saturday following talks in Japan ahead of a major summit next......
WASHINGTON: A leading American company plans to invest nearly $200 million in curating, processing, distributing, and importing pink Himalayan salt from Pakistan, officials said.The Miracle Saltworks......
KARACHI: Trading on the stock exchange commenced on a negative note in the outgoing week as ratings agency Fitch stated that Pakistan faced a substantial debt payment of $3.7 billion in May and......
BRUSSELS: Washington and the EU will pledge joint action to tackle concerns focused on China about non-market practices and coordinate their export controls on semiconductors and other goods at a......
KARACHI: Pakistan hardly figures on the global IT map even though its universities churn out approximately 30,000 graduates a year in computer-related fields. Why?One possible explanation is the......
ISLAMABAD: The newly appointed prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Anwarul Haq, met Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday for the second time in a week to reach an understanding over......
LAHORE: PTI’s Punjab chapter president Dr Yasmin Rashid was arrested again, just hours after the Lahore High Court had ordered her release along with 17 other women workers of the party detained......
KARACHI: In light of extraordinary relief extended to Imran Khan by the Supreme Court, Foreign Minister and chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday asked the judiciary......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said banning the PTI was the only solution and accused party chief Imran Khan of recruiting, organising, training and arming thousands of......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led Saturday prayers at Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia mosque, ahead of a battle for his political life against a secular rival as he braces for......
SITTWE: Thousands fled Myanmar’s west coast and officials in neighbouring Bangladesh raced to evacuate Rohingya refugees on Saturday as the most powerful cyclone in the region for over a decade......
ISLAMABAD: While mobile data services were restored late on Friday night, access to key social media platforms remained restricted a day later, as the interior ministry is yet to allow access to......
• Advises army to form political party, stop taking decisions behind closed doors • Announces rallies from Wednesday; asks police, media to snub ‘unjustified’ orders of ‘handlers’LAHORE: PTI......
• Prime minister accuses Imran of ‘planning, instigating violence’ • Orders trial of cases in anti-terrorism courts, vows to make it a ‘test case for govt’ • Punjab govt sets up JIT to probe......
THIS week was another sad episode in Pakistan’s chequered history, when enraged PTI supporters stormed military and other state installations in various cities. While warning the miscreants, the......
