Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik said on Tuesday that the import of cheap oil from Russia would not result in an immediate decrease in fuel prices, but a gradual decline would be seen......
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday kicked off a high-stakes visit to China with a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Beijing, marking his return to the electric carmaker’s largest......
India’s top wrestlers have threatened to hurl their medals into the Ganges river on Tuesday as they demand the arrest of the head of the Wrestling Federation of India over sexual harassment......
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said PTI Chairman Imran Khan will be tried in a military court for the events of May 9 when violence erupted following his arrest and military......
PTI chief Imran Khan on Tuesday failed to appear before a joint investigation team (JIT) probing May 9 vandalism at the Lahore Corps Commander’s House — also called Jinnah House — and requested that......
The federal government on Tuesday raised an objection to three members of the five-member bench hearing a set of petition challenging the constitution of a judicial commission formed to investigate......
PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday sent a Rs10 billion defamation notice to Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel after the latter held a press conference claiming, among other things, that the......
Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar on Tuesday told the Lahore High Court (LHC) that phone numbers which had been traced back to Afghanistan were involved in case of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan,......
Cricket’s cash-starved associate member nations fear the proposed new international revenue distribution model, which heavily favours the game’s superpowers, could potentially stall the growth of the......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Monday denied police further physical remand of PTI leaders Dr Yasmin Rashid and Senator Ejaz Chaudhry but allowed the custody of Mian Mahmoodur Rashid in two cases......
LAHORE: A committee formed to probe allegations of mistreatment of women prisoners arrested after the May 9 violence has rejected the claims of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan.The......
DUBAI: Josh Hazlewood made the cut when Australia submitted their final 15-man squad for next week’s World Test Championship (WTC) final despite recent injury concerns, the International Cricket......
PARIS: Novak Djokovic started his bid for a men’s record 23rd Grand Slam singles title with a straight-sets victory over Aleksandar Kovacevic in the French Open first round on Monday.Two-time Roland......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has questioned how the establishment is allowing the country to head towards a complete economic meltdown.In a tweet on Monday, Mr Khan......
DUBAI: International Cricket Council (ICC) general manager Wasim Khan expects the cricket boards of Pakistan and India to approach amicable “conclusions” to the ongoing deadlock between them over the......
PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Mohammad Azam Khan on Monday complained that even five years after the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the......
KHYBER: The district administration of Khyber has geared up to restart the stalled survey of damaged houses in upper Bara and Tirah as part of the Citizens Losses Compensation Programme (CLCP)......
• Shouldn’t Karachi’s administrative control be given to Centre, asks MPA Hussain • Says seeking Centre’s help for basic need like water shows failure of PPP’s 15-year rule • Saeed Ghani urges MQM-P......
JIUQUAN: China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday as it pursues its ambitious plans for a manned lunar landing by......
Kanchha Sherpa NAMCHE BAZAR: Nonagenarian Kanchha Sherpa is the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first......
KARACHI: Credit cards have failed to gain currency in Pakistan as they hold a meagre 4 per cent share in the overall card payment system due to the high-interest rates banks charge to users, mainly......
ISLAMABAD: The real estate builders and developers on Monday urged Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to unveil a comprehensive package in the coming budget to attract foreign investment and strict measures......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday he will remove his son from the position of his secretary due to “inappropriate behaviour” at the official residence.The decision comes......
LEPOSAVIC: Nato peacekeeping soldiers formed security cordons around three town halls in Kosovo on Monday to keep back Serbs protesting at ethnic Albanian mayors taking office in a Serb majority area......
BANGKOK: Thai police said on Monday they have charged a Canadian man they described as a mercenary with the murder of an Indian gangster in the resort island of Phuket.Officers launched an......
ISLAMABAD: The government has a “strategic plan” to promote Islamic finance, but banks and other financial institutions should not exploit the situation in the name of “Sharia compliance”.“We have a......
ISLAMABAD: At least seven more leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) appeared before the media in different cities on Monday to announce quitting the party.All of them cited May 9 attacks on......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s international bonds continue to trade at a distressed level despite forceful statements by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar about the unlikelihood of a sovereign default.According to......
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains in touch with Pakistan’s authorities in order to pave the way for a board meeting before a financing programme expires at the end of June, the IMF......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday remarked that the Supreme Court did not want to strike down the Justice Qazi Faez Isa-led commission, formed by the government to probe audio......
ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be an unfinished agenda of the historic Charter of Democracy signed by ‘political frenemies’ PML-N and PPP, the Pakistan Democratic Movement-led government is mulling......
LAHORE: With more than 70 leaders and former lawmakers parting ways with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) since May 9, the Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) group has stepped up efforts to poach as many......
STOCKHOLM: A harness-wearing Beluga whale that turned up in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it was a spy trained by the Russian navy, has appeared off Sweden’s coast, an organisation following......
KYIV: Russia fired a barrage of missiles at Kyiv on Monday sending panicked residents running for shelter in an unusual daytime attack on the Ukrainian capital following overnight strikes.A series of......
THE PTI’s juggernaut has been slowed down; the crackdown has had its effect as politicians and electables around it are exiting quickly, leaving Imran Khan alone and isolated. With his ban on......
WRITING about our national chaos in my last piece, I had said that one side would nix the other to end the chaos soon. But even I am amazed at how quickly it did so. I had traced the chaos to the......
LAHORE: The caretaker Punjab government has placed before the Lahore High Court documents showing that a ministerial committee that met last year to modify the terms and conditions for corporate......
THE PTI’s juggernaut has been slowed down; the crackdown has had its effect as politicians and electables around it are exiting quickly, leaving Imran Khan alone and isolated. With his ban on......
IT’S crunch time for Indian politics. It became inevitable after the Karnataka verdict hit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the solar plexus. The BJP’s rout in the crucial southern state has......
WRITING about our national chaos in my last piece, I had said that one side would nix the other to end the chaos soon. But even I am amazed at how quickly it did so. I had traced the chaos to the......
• WFP, FAO report notes $77.5bn to be repaid over next three years • Political instability, lack of IMF deal to hit ability to import foodISLAMABAD: Acute food insecurity in......
