More than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said on Friday, urging stakeholders to end the years-long......
The government has approved China’s CanSinoBio Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in Pakistan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said on Friday.“Yes, Correct,”......
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Friday recused himself from further hearing a petition filed by former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general Asad Durrani......
Pakistan will play three one-day internationals and four Twenty20 internationals in South Africa during April, Cricket Africa announced on Friday.The touring team will stay in a bio-secure......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed said on Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa "should not hear matters involving the prime minister" in a written order on a petition pertaining to......
THE federal government has negotiated a settlement with the protesting government employees to give them increments but it has paid a price for mishandling the issue. The employees had been......
THE federal government has negotiated a settlement with the protesting government employees to give them increments but it has paid a price for mishandling the issue. The employees had been......
THE Biden administration has made clear its desire to bring America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan to a dignified end. But after a decade of missed objectives in a country ravaged by conflict......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is considering legislation to form two independent bodies for the externalaccountability of police officials and better coordination between the police and......
PESHAWAR: A teenager shot dead an Ahmadi homeopathic doctor in Bazidkhel area of the city here on Thursday, police said.An official of the Inqilab police station told Dawn that the deceased belonged......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Fear gripped the people of Korai village here on Tank road after they found three graves in the village cemetery opened and the bodies missing from there.Malik Sanaullah, a local......
ISLAMABAD: The government is aiming to achieve herd immunity by vaccinating 70 million people against Covid-19 by the end of the current year. About 30 million people will be vaccinated by......
ISLAMABAD: Over 200 government employees, including some trade union leaders, who had been picked up by the police on Wednesday during a violent protest, were released on Thursday evening, hours......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday called Prof Sajid Mir to tell him that he should get ready to contest the Senate election on the PML-N ticket as the party has decided to field......
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s claim of its readiness to hold local government elections before Sept 30 has seemingly shattered as it repealed the Punjab Village Panchayats and Neighbourhood......
LAHORE: PML-N president and Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reconciled two senior leaders of his party -- former railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq and former......
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) on Thursday informed the Sindh High Court that soybean and pet coke consignments were being unloaded at Karachi Port Trust without standard......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday directed the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to refund (unfreeze) the ‘unclaimed’ money deposited in a private bank by slain Afghan Taliban leader Mullah......
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet fixed on Thursday the wheat procurement target for crop 2020-21 at 1.4 million tonnes (mmt) at a rate of Rs2,000 per 40kg.The cabinet, keeping in view the shortage of......
PARIS: Russia and France on Thursday urged Iran to show restraint after it started producing uranium metal in a new breach of limits laid out in Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.The UN’s......
NEW DELHI: England’s Jos Buttler will return for the five Twenty20 Internationals in India after being rested for three Tests, as the squad was announced on Thursday by the country’s cricket......
DHAKA: Nkrumah Bonner was making up for lost time with his second successive half-century as West Indies ground out 223-5 against Bangladesh on day one of the second Test here at the Sher-e-Bangla......
KARACHI: The World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) President Syed Sultan Shah said on Thursday that the blind cricket activities will soon be fully restored in the country after the coronavirus pandemic......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Thursday allowed another 83-paisa per unit (kWh) increase in electricity rates of Distribution Companies (Discos) of ex-Wapda......
KARACHI: The auto sector in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (7MFY21) registered brisk growth, posting an increase of 18 per cent in car sales, 137pc in jeeps, 32pc in pickups, 12pc......
ISLAMABAD: The International Development Committee (IDC) has relaunched an inquiry into effectiveness of UK Aid to Pakistan.In June 2019, the previous IDC launched an inquiry into UK Aid to Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: After a delay of over two years, Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh on Thursday approved the establishment of the Tax Policy Unit in the Ministry of Finance to take away policy formation......
BAJAUR: The provincial health department has not yet supplied Covid-19 vaccine to the local health department of Bajaur tribal district, health officials here said on Thursday.They claimed that......
BAJAUR: A child was killed and seven others suffered injuries when several mortar shells fired from Afghanistan landed in three border areas of Mamond tehsil, in Bajaur district, on......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Thursday imposed a Rs150 million penalty on a pharmaceutical company for deceptive marketing and misleading advertising of one of its......
THE anthem that sets the Pakistan Super League (PSL) extravaganza in motion annually has this year left the nation divided, with some criticising the concept behind the song as uninspiring and others......
THE anthem that sets the Pakistan Super League (PSL) extravaganza in motion annually has this year left the nation divided, with some criticising the concept behind the song as uninspiring and others......
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday asked the Biden administration not to overlook the ground realities vis-à-vis occupied Kashmir as he urged the world to help......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s e-commerce market size posted a growth of over 35 per cent in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021 to Rs96 billion compared to Rs71bn over the corresponding period of last......
ISLAMABAD: With a view to removing a legal hitch in the holding of long-overdue local government elections in the provinces, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday called for official......
ISLAMABAD: The chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday reminded the regulatory bodies of lawyers — the Pakistan Bar Council and Islamabad Bar Council — of their statutory......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Yahya Afridi on Thursday wondered why the government had moved the presidential reference before the Supreme Court to seek its opinion on a matter which already stood answered......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that as decided in a renewed agreement with the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan, his government would take the matter to parliament before April 20, the......
ISLAMABAD: While 1,502 more people were infected with coronavirus and 57 lost their lives across the country in a single day, the government has allowed private companies to import Covid-19 vaccine......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan denied before the Supreme Court on Thursday that Rs500 million public funds were distributed among the parliamentarians and said no money would be given to the......
