Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, state media said, to join an Arab League summit for the first time in more than a decade of war.The visit seals Assad’s dramatic......
Lawyer and activist Jibran Nasir on Thursday asked the government to provide a list of all the people detained on charges of vandalism and violence on May 9, as he raised concerns that the families......
Manchester City marched into the Champions League final for the second time in three seasons after outclassing holders Real Madrid 4-0 for a 5-1 aggregate victory at a raucous Etihad Stadium on......
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday announced that Iran will supply 100 megawatts of electricity daily to Balochistan’s Gwadar once the Polan-Gabd electricity transmission line project becomes......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday ordered Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar to apprise it of progress on the recovery of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan by 12pm tomorrow (Friday).After he......
One Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while a terrorist was killed during an exchange of fire in the Loesam area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, the army’s media wing said on......
Turkey’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-nationalist who helped push last weekend’s presidential vote......
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday granted bail to chief of the Haq Do Tehreek (HDT) Maulana Hidayatur Rehman who has been in detention for over three months on murder charges.Hidayutur Rehman......
DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Wednesday that the upcoming tour by Afghanistan has been trimmed to avoid player “burnout” ahead of the Asia Cup and World Cup.Afghanistan were......
KARACHI: While the cricket boards of Pakistan and India tussle over the hosting of the Asia Cup, things are relatively calmer between the football federations of the two countries.India is looking......
KARACHI: Gul Hassan Kalmati, widely known as a ‘people’s historian’, passed away on Wednesday after a protracted illness in Karachi. He was 66.His relative Hafeez Baloch told Dawn that Kalmati’s......
ROME: World number seven Holger Rune beat a frustrated Novak Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 on Wednesday, sending the top seed spinning out in a dramatic rain-interrupted quarter-final at the Italian......
LONDON: England’s James Anderson said he is expecting to return from his groin injury in “a couple of weeks” but the veteran fast bowler will not aim for a comeback for the one-off Test against......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Wednesday evening announced that two senior leaders of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Ali Zaidi and Firdous Shamim Naqvi, were being shifted to Jacobabad......
PESHAWAR: The Institute of Kidney Diseases of the public sector Hayatabad Medical Complex has begun free renal transplants from its own resources following the suspension of those surgical procedures......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani has opposed the decision of the government to try civilians under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) 1952, stating that the arsonists should be......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain on Wednesday demanded strict action against perpetrators of attack on military installations and added that people of......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday set aside the detention orders of 70 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and ordered the government to immediately release them.Justice......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab police on Wednesday detained PTI leader Ali Mohammad Khan from Jhelum, Maleeka Bokhari from Rawalpindi and Dr Shireen Mazari from her house in the capital after they were released......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi will jointly inaugurate Mand-Pishin border sustenance marketplace and Polan-Gabd electricity transmission line at......
“Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.” — Jerome Frank, legal realist philosopherSIX recent judicial orders — one order of the Supreme Court and five orders of the Islamabad High Court — in......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has alleged that the forum of National Security Committee (NSC) has been ‘hijacked’ as its meeting had political purposes.The PTI’s central media......
PARIS: The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers detect the first chemical signs of supermassive stars, ‘celestial monsters’ blazing with the brightness of millions of Suns in the early......
TEHRAN: Iran and Russia agreed on Wednesday to collaborate on the construction of the final part of a commercial transport network linking to the Gulf and India while avoiding Western sea......
WASHINGTON: At 95, US federal circuit judge Pauline Newman, who was appointed by president Ronald Reagan, is the oldest sitting federal judge in the United States.Now, some of her colleagues —......
NEW YORK: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” involving paparazzi in New York, a spokesperson for the couple said on Wednesday.The pair were......
BEIJING: A crew of 39 Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino sailors were missing at sea on Wednesday after a fishing vessel capsized in the Indian Ocean, officials said.Multinational search efforts were......
GENEVA: The United Nations on Wednesday said $3.03 billion would be needed to provide urgent aid in conflict-ravaged Sudan and for over one million expected to flee into neighbouring countries this......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday launched the ‘Share Pakistan Portal’, a digital repository for an improved targeted communication between the Ministry of Foreign......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that oil production cuts were required to maintain a certain price level, contradicting assurances from other leaders of the Opec+ group of......
KARACHI: Share prices settled on the lower side after hovering within a short range throughout the trading session on Wednesday.Arif Habib Ltd said the benchmark of representative shares traded in......
KARACHI: The government raised Rs444.4 billion, exceeding the target of Rs375bn set for the treasury bills auction on Wednesday.The highest amount of Rs334.1bn was raised for the three-month tenor......
ISLAMABAD: The American Business Council of Pakistan (ABC) on Wednesday met with top members of the government’s economic team to discuss various measures for ease of doing business, encourage......
ISLAMABAD: The mid-year United Nations survey on the world economic situation forecast that the inflation rate in Pakistan is expected to remain in double digits in the coming months owing to......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has revised the Non-Banking Finance Companies and Notified Entities Regulations 2008 to promote the development of the......
KARACHI: The economic situation is going to be “very difficult” in coming months, with liquid foreign exchange reserves of the central bank likely to drop below the critical level of $2 billion by......
KARACHI: Once again the dollar breached the Rs300-barrier in the open market on Wednesday, widening the exchange rate differential to over Rs14 compared to the interbank market.Currency dealers said......
ISLAMABAD: The centre has sought to delink the distribution of divisible pool resources among the provinces from the population-based National Finance Commission (NFC), as the seventh national......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad and Riyadh signed an agreement on Wednesday to initiate the “Road to Makkah” project, aimed at simplifying the immigration process for Pakistanis travelling to Saudi Arabia to......
NEW DELHI: Security has been stepped up in India-held Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP government amid a surge in attacks ahead of a G20 meeting in the disputed territory.Srinagar is due to host a......
ISLAMABAD: Another PTI leader, MNA Aamer Mehmood Kiani, quit the party on Wednesday as the government continues to look for suspects wanted over attacks on the army following last week’s arrest of......
• Giving 24-hour ultimatum, Punjab minister claims 30-40 ‘terrorists’ are holed up in PTI chief’s house • 1,500 policemen equipped with heavy machinery surround Imran’s residenceLAHORE: A large......
“Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.” — Jerome Frank, legal realist philosopherSIX recent judicial orders — one order of the Supreme Court and five orders of the Islamabad High Court — in......
SIR Charles Aitchison would have been so gratified. Two alumni from the college he founded in 1886 had a reunion on May 12 at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad. They met with patrician......
