Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday expressed hope that the impending Brexit deal — Britian's planned withdrawal from the European Union — would open new opportunities for trade and......
RIMBO (Sweden): The UN has asked Yemen’s Houthi rebels to withdraw from Hodeida as part of a ceasefire deal placing the flashpoint port city under joint control, according to a document seen by AFP......
LAHORE: Veteran journalist and human rights activist I.A. Rehman on Sunday urged the government to make the 2017-18 Universal Period Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council public and......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s fightback from a demoralising second Test defeat to clinch the third match, and first away series victory over Pakistan in almost 50 years, will help the team progress,......
THE 2018 IDEAS Expo in Karachi featured a high-level seminar on hybrid warfare. This was a timely recognition that threats to national security can and do assume complex forms.For over 60 years,......
WASHINGTON: “The contractor must maintain a constant capability to surge to any location within Afghanistan or Pakistan” within a 30-day period, says an official US announcement released in 2010.The......
BHUBANESWAR: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has initiated an inquiry against Pakistan hockey team’s assistant coach Danish Kaleem for breaching security protocol, adding to the list of......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump did not know about plans to arrest a top executive at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in Canada, two US officials said on Thursday, in an apparent attempt to stop the......
GENEVA: Some 3.9 billion people are now using the Internet, meaning that for the first time more than half of the global population is online, the United Nations said on Friday.The UN agency for......
KARACHI: The internet-driven 2018 general elections were marred by misinformation and fake news, and the candidates, particularly women, were subjected to online abuse in the absence of a code of......
HAMBURG: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a close ally of Angela Merkel, won a tight race to succeed her as party leader on Friday, seeing off a longtime rival of the German chancellor.The contest, which......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal has refuted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claim that the conviction rate of NAB is seven per cent.Speaking at a......
LAHORE: At least one of the three potential investors, Pakistan GasPort, appears determined to move ahead with its plan to build the country’s third LNG regasification terminal to import more than......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa on Wednesday discussed the prevailing security situation in the country.“Matters relating to the armed forces and......
A day-long symposium on an alarming population growth in Pakistan is being held in Islamabad.Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar will address the symposium to......
