Thousands of mourners from the Shia Hazara community on Monday protested alongside the bodies of miners killed in an attack in Balochistan's Mach coal field area.The 11 miners were kidnapped before......
Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fuelled social media speculation......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday once again expressed concern over the "deteriorating law and order situation" in the capital after a lawyer was allegedly abducted from his home by......
A British judge has rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be “oppressive” because of his mental health.District......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday declared virginity tests, including the two-finger test (TFT) for examination of sexual assault survivors "illegal and against the Constitution", saying they had......
The sudden announcement by fast bowler Mohammad Amir to quit international cricket has sparked a lot of debate among the cricketing circles.Amir took the decision after being overlooked by the......
The country's education ministers, in a meeting on Monday, decided to reopen schools in the country in phases from January 18.Addressing a press conference in Islamabad after the meeting, Federal......
In an extraordinary rebuke of United States President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence cautioned Sunday against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of......
The US government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, a federal official said on Sunday.Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp......
KARACHI: A boy among men stood the tallest in the end, making history on the way.It was a rousing performance; one that amplified the hype surrounding Omar Khalid being Pakistan golf’s latest......
KARACHI: A record-breaking century from the prolific Kamran Ghulam, who shattered a 36-year-old landmark, laid a solid platform for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to dictate terms against holders Central Punjab......
Predictions, forecasts, voodoo economics and crystal balls. This time last year, same as every year, mumbo jumbo about hopes of economic recovery and higher export figures was sprouted by every......
In 2021, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is expected to focus on financial inclusion — and more exclusively on general equality in financial inclusion plus payments system. In addition to deepening......
Any attempt to write about 2020 is an overwhelming exercise given that so many once-a-decade events took place in a span of a few months.Perhaps nowhere else was that noticeable more than in......
KARACHI: As the Sindh government waits for first supply of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses by mid-January, the authorities have identified some 115,000 frontline health workers across the province who......
KARACHI: Two suspected robbers were shot dead by an officer of the Airport Security Force (ASF) in the Sachal area on Sunday, according to police.Officials at the Sachal police station said that......
THATTA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that the option of dialogue at national level is possible only after the prime minister steps down.“Once the incumbent......
PESHAWAR/KARAK: Members of the minority communities on Sunday held a protest demonstration against vandalising of a Hindu shrine (Samadhi) by a mob in Karak district and demanded of the government to......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is planning to set up two mobile libraries to revive the culture of book reading.The initiative aims to provide citizens, especially......
ISLAMABAD: A security report for 2020 released by Pakistan institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) has said while the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and affiliates continued to regroup in......
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government has laid the foundation stone of South Punjab province by establishing a secretariat and in future no one......
LAHORE: The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has threatened to relaunch its protest if the government does not fulfill its promise of expelling the French ambassador by Feb 17 on the issue of......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has imposed lockdown in 10 ‘hot spots’(streets) in Lahore, Gujranwala and Multan because of the increasing number of coronavirus positive cases being reported there.The......
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned the country to expect tougher restrictions to combat spiralling coronavirus cases, as a row flared over whether schools should reopen.“It......
THE consensus amongst the economic policymaking triumvirate in government — finance, planning and State Bank — that an IMF-prescribed economic stability package was the only solution to Pakistan’s......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab on Sunday reported twice as many coronavirus deaths, as compared to Sindh.According to the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre, 24 people lost their lives in......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz on Sunday said PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz during her address at the Bahawalpur rally forgot to mention that her ‘royal family’......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to ban a movie, The Lady of the Heaven, in Pakistan and directed the telecom sector regulator to restrict its spread through internet in the country.The Lady of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday took notice of the killing of 21-year-old Osama Satti, who was shot dead early on Saturday by five personnel of the capital police’s Counter Terrorism......
THE consensus amongst the economic policymaking triumvirate in government — finance, planning and State Bank — that an IMF-prescribed economic stability package was the only solution to Pakistan’s......
RAHIM YAR KHAN / MULTAN: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in an impressive Bahawalpur show on Sunday evening called the opposition’s drive against Imran Khan-led PTI government ‘jihad’ and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the UN secretary general in New York and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva to seek an immediate release of Kashmiri activist and political......
ISLAMABAD: As electricity tariffs go out of reach of consumers, a group of foreign investors has sought Prime Minister Imran Khan’s intervention to remove roadblocks to cheap 425mw alternative and......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stands divided on whether to take part in the forthcoming Senate polls or not as one group supports the Pakistan Peoples Party’s stance that the field......
