A woman won a local election in India almost two weeks after her death as supporters kept their pledge to back her in a sign of respect, officials said.Ashiya Bi polled at nearly 44 per cent in the......
A day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) gave 48 hours to the Sialkot district police officer to recover anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, who is allegedly missing, the city police on Tuesday registered a......
A girl was killed and six other female students sustained injuries after a police officer posted outside a school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district opened fire on them, the police said.District......
The National Assembly (NA) passed on Tuesday the Contempt of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) Bill, 2023 — which envisions six months imprisonment and Rs1m fine for individuals found guilty of insulting......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is unhappy with the proposed new revenue distribution model for international cricket although it accepts that India, the game’s financial engine, should get the......
Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) were in the green on Tuesday with the benchmark KSE-100 index up 346.72 points, or 0.83 per cent, around 1:08 pm.Salman Naqvi, head of research at Aba Ali......
Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) were in the green on Tuesday with the benchmark KSE-100 index up 346.72 points, or 0.83 per cent, around 1:08 pm.Salman Naqvi, head of research at Aba Ali......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday said he greeted everyone with “good to see you” because “respect and courtesy” were necessary.The top judge’s remarks came after he had......
ABBOTTABAD: Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Mussarat Hilali on Monday advocated an increase in the high court’s strength and elevation of its judges to the Supreme Court.Addressing an Eid Milan......
SYDNEY: Australian spin king Nathan Lyon dismissed concerns Monday that England could use short boundaries for the upcoming Ashes to supercharge their attacking “Bazball” strategy, saying it worked......
LONDON: Cricket chiefs on Monday announced they are scrapping the contentious “soft signal” rule and making helmets mandatory for wicketkeepers standing close to the stumps.The changes, ratified by......
LAHORE: Half-centuries from Hamza Nawaz and Shahzaib Khan and three wickets each by Ali Asfand and Arafat Minhas helped Pakistan U-19 beat Bangladesh U-19 by 80 runs in the fifth and final one-day to......
BARCELONA: Barcelona claimed their 27th La Liga title and first for four years on Sunday after two first-half goals from Robert Lewandowski spurred them to a comfortable 4-2 victory over city rivals......
KHYBER: The increasing population of wild boars, porcupines and monkeys in parts of Tirah and upper Bara has been causing damage to standing crops and inflicting losses on farmers, according to......
OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday was headed to Alberta to meet with soldiers fighting wildfires that worsened over the weekend, forcing evacuations and hitting energy production in......
BANGKOK: Thailand’s progressive Move Forward Party claimed victory in the country’s election on Monday after a stunning result that decimated military-backed parties, which have ruled the kingdom for......
NAYPYIDAW: At least three people were killed, 13 injured and more than 1,000 buildings were damaged when Cyclone Mocha pummelled western Myanmar, state-run media said on Monday.But refugee camps in......
GENEVA: The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan went on trial at a Geneva criminal court on Monday charged with “rape and sexual coercion”, allegations which the former Oxford University professor......
KARACHI: The administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts on Monday remanded Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmaker Firdous Shamim Naqvi in police custody in two May 9 violence cases.MPA Naqvi, along......
KARACHI: Just a couple of days after Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned the Election Commission of Pakistan against any further delay in......
KARACHI: As the enumeration process ended on Monday with no announcement from the federal government about any further extension, opposition parties having electoral mandate in Karachi demanded that......
LAHORE: As many as 178 more workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have been arrested from all over Punjab in the violence cases lodged against them in various districts.A spokesperson for the......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday rejected the police plea for physical remand of PTI Punjab President Dr Yasmin Rashid in a case of May 9 violent protests and gave orders for shifting......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti on Monday suspended the police inspector who arrested anchorperson Imran Riaz and gave 48 hours to the Sialkot district police officer to......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued production order for PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry, and also permitted meeting of under custody leadership with their relatives.IHC Justice Miangul......
MUZAFFARABAD: Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) prime minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas on Monday claimed that a sizeable number of “conscientious” leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was fed up......
ISLAMABAD: The high-growth industries in Pakistan lack industry-specific action plans that set a long-term growth vision to match with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) aimed at consolidating......
WITH Pakistanis in a ride combining a super-fast roller coaster and a merry-go-round, one cannot resist asking how this cursed nation ended up here. It has faced massive problems since 1947. But the......
ISLAMABAD: A joint session of the parliament on Monday passed the National Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2023, with Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar asserting that no individual or a court can......
FOR the world, war is another means to conduct politics, but in Pakistan, the law is the only means to conduct politics. After a brief detour — via the streets — it seems we are back to the......
ISLAMABAD: After the collapse of the first round of dialogue that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf began with the ruling coalition on the Supreme Court’s advice, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: Police continued to crack down on the PTI members and detained former provincial minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan under the 3MPO and also shifted five party activists arrested on......
• Pledges support for national consensus to address political instability • Vows to defeat, with nation’s support, propaganda warfare against military leadership • Case being prepared over attack on......
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that the people in Pakistan have the right to express themselves, but they should do so without participating in violence.At an afternoon news briefing,......
FOR the world, war is another means to conduct politics, but in Pakistan, the law is the only means to conduct politics. After a brief detour — via the streets — it seems we are back to the......
LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday renewed his call for peaceful protests to save the Supreme Court, alleging that security agencies were facilitating ‘goons’ in the federal government to take......
WITH Pakistanis in a ride combining a super-fast roller coaster and a merry-go-round, one cannot resist asking how this cursed nation ended up here. It has faced massive problems since 1947. But the......
• Fazl urges chief justice not to disqualify Shehbaz • PDM says it won’t accept ‘engineered verdicts’ISLAMABAD: Demanding the resignation of Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial for “giving undue......
KOHAT: A violent clash between two tribes left 14 people, including a policeman, dead and 12 injured in Darra Adam Khel area of Kohat district on Monday.Among the deceased, eleven belonged to the......
