Kosovo’s top Olympic body said on Wednesday it had asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to open disciplinary proceedings against Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic over his public......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced on Wednesday that the price of petrol was being reduced by Rs8 and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs5 per litre for the next fortnight.The new prices of petrol and......
Sudanese army forces blasted paramilitary bases with artillery in Khartoum on Wednesday after pulling out of US and Saudi-brokered ceasefire talks, accusing their paramilitary foes of failing to......
A day after International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission chief Nathan Porter commented on the country’s political situation, Minister of State for Finance and Revenue Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha said on......
India’s sports minister on Wednesday urged wrestling champions who have staged protests accusing their federation chief of sexual harassment to await the outcome of investigations into the......
Gen Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, chief of general staff (CGS) of the UK Army, on Wednesday called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir and acknowledged the Pakistan Army’s sacrifices in......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s bail plea in the Al-Qadir Trust case later today at 2pm.A division bench headed by Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb will preside......
LAHORE: Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi says the government will present provincial budget for four months.Talking to a delegation of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), led by its......
KARACHI: Portugal-based Easah Suliman and England-based Otis Khan were on Tuesday named among 28 players who will attend the Pakistan national team camp for the upcoming four-Nations Cup in Mauritius......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has given Gwadar the status of Special Economic District (SED) to promote port activities and for speedy development of the coastal district.Officials of Planning......
ROME: Juventus will pay a fine of 718,000 euros ($790,000) and not challenge a 10-point penalty in a settlement reached on Tuesday with Italy’s football authorities over payments to players and the......
RAWALPINDI: Two leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Shehryar Khan Afridi and Ali Mohammad Khan, were re-arrested by police on Tuesday under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO)......
KOHAT: Five members of a family, including children, received serious burn and bone injuries when a huge blast caused by a gas leak destroyed their house in the College Town on Rawalpindi Road here......
ISLAMABAD: Two confidants of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan — Fawad Chaudhry and Sheikh Rashid Ahmed — on Tuesday threw their hands up when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)......
ISLAMABAD: Najam Saqib, son of former chief justice Saqib Nisar, on Tuesday moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against a National Assembly committee tasked with investigating his purported audio......
ISLAMABAD: Coming down hard on the anti-graft watchdog for slow progress in a number of inquiries pending for as long as a decade, the Public Accounts Committee summoned the National Accountability......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Abid Shahid Zuberi on Tuesday pleaded that the Supreme Court (Practice & Procedure) Act, 2023 encroaches upon the powers of the apex court to......
KARACHI: The administration of Karachi Zoological Gardens is yet to start treatment of two lionesses found to be infected with multiple blood parasites last month, it emerged on Monday.Sources said......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday decided to launch an operation for the immediate removal of CNG kits and cylinders from school vans, coasters and buses across the province.This was decided......
BEIJING: China deployed hundreds of police and made arrests in a mostly Muslim south-western town after clashes erupted over the planned partial demolition of a mosque.The town of Nagu, Yunnan......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Belarus on Tuesday signed a landmark visa waiver agreement for red and blue passport holders.Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, while speaking at a joint press......
GENEVA: The United Nations’ weather agency announced on Tuesday it was making the cryosphere a new top priority, saying the melting of sea ice, glaciers and permafrost posed a global threat.Member......
NEW DELHI: India’s top wrestlers were talked out of their plans to toss their medals into the river Ganges on Tuesday as part of their ongoing demand to arrest their federation chief over sexual......
GILGIT: A faction within the ruling PTI in Gilgit-Baltistan filed a no-confidence motion against the regional legislature’s speaker, a fellow party man, on Tuesday for “not honouring an agreement to......
Serbs from Kosovo face riot police during their gathering in Zvecan town to demand the removal of recently elected Albanian mayors, on Tuesday.—AFP ZVECAN: The US-led military......
• Centre’s plea urges CJP, justices Ahsan and Akhtar to recuse themselves from bench • Asif asks Justice Bandial to distance himself from proceedings; regrets scuttling of commission consisting of......
• Hammad Azhar accuses govt of using female workers as weapons • Police say only 15 PTI women arrested across PunjabLAHORE / ISLAMABAD: A senior PTI leader on Tuesday reiterated allegations that the......
Moscow: An official examines the damaged facade of a multi-storey apartment building after a drone attack on Tuesday. Ukrainian drones targeted one of the affluent neighbourhoods in......
IN the end it was Recep Erdogan who won yet again. Over the weekend, the results of the run-off Turkish election revealed the former prime minister and current president to be the winner......
THEY all appeared to be reading from the same script as they renounced their affiliation with the PTI. They left in droves; many of them had occupied senior positions in the party and in government.......
HONG KONG: Hong Kong has decided to let retail investors trade cryptocurrency under its new regulatory regime because “virtual assets are going to stay”, the city’s minister overseeing financial......
ISLAMABAD: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to reduce tax rates and address barriers which impede smooth business operations.In its budget proposals......
LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has claimed that a “king’s party” is being carved out of the PTI, but warned that such attempts did not succeed in the past and would fail in the future as well.In a......
KARACHI: Port Qasim Electric Power Company Ltd (PQEPC), which runs a $1.9 billion power plant of 1,320 megawatts on imported coal, has served a formal notice of payment default on the Central Power......
KARACHI: Bank lending to the private sector has shrunk to just Rs28 billion this fiscal year after plummeting 98 per cent compared to last year, central bank data showed on Tuesday.The State Bank......
ISLAMABAD: MNAs belonging to Sindh on Tuesday expressed reservations over the recently concluded census in the country, alleging serious irregularities in the process which, according to them, would......
KARACHI: 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......
PARIS: Global leaders should be working to reduce “the risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence technology, a group of industry chiefs and experts warned on Tuesday, urging policymakers......
THEY all appeared to be reading from the same script as they renounced their affiliation with the PTI. They left in droves; many of them had occupied senior positions in the party and in government.......
IN the end it was Recep Erdogan who won yet again. Over the weekend, the results of the run-off Turkish election revealed the former prime minister and current president to be the winner......
ISLAMABAD: Highlighting fiscal risks at the end of the current fiscal year, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Tuesday wished the inflation peaking at 34-36 per cent this month would start descending......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday rejected outright Imran Khan’s offer to hold talks in the backdrop of May 9 riots and violent protests staged by the PTI.Rejecting the option of......
