More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India’s northern Punjab state on Sunday in a show of strength against new farm laws, where union leaders called on supporters to amass outside......
Magnificent power-hitting by Lewis Gregory in the late overs helped Islamabad United win by three wickets against Multan Sultans in their opening 2021 Pakistan Super League encounter at the National......
A group of protesters angry over remarks made in a comedy television programme vandalised the head offices of Geo News and Jang Group on Sunday and also allegedly manhandled the staff present......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Sunday that the incumbent government had been fully exposed after its alleged "plan of rigging" the NA-75 (Daska) by-polls was unsuccessful.Maryam was......
Lahore Qalandars defeated Peshawar Zalmi by four wickets in their first match of this year's Pakistan Super League (PSL) tournament at the National Stadium in Karachi on Sunday.Helped by Mohammad......
A small fire erupted at a polling station in Tharparkar's Chachro tehsil on Sunday during the by-polls for the district's NA-221 seat, causing a media frenzy and panic among the voters.According to......
Tens of thousands of opponents of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup gathered on Sunday in towns from north to south, undeterred by the bloodiest episode of their campaign the previous day when......
Analysis emerging from various academic platforms in Europe, the US, Turkey and India in the last five years or so, suggests that the world has entered a ‘post-secular age.’ This is how they......
As the incredibly popular HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) gets under way with its sixth edition, the biggest hype is actually not about the potentially scintillating cricket to come. For the moment,......
LAST month, the government announced much-awaited reforms for the civil service and introduced changes to rules governing civil servants. However, it seems to be more of an attempt to reform the......
RELIGIOSITY has begun to define the Pakistani citizenry. Those who wield power see it as a positive trend that can achieve national cohesion. Unfortunately, instead of helping to inculcate better......
RELIGIOSITY has begun to define the Pakistani citizenry. Those who wield power see it as a positive trend that can achieve national cohesion. Unfortunately, instead of helping to inculcate better......
LAST month, the government announced much-awaited reforms for the civil service and introduced changes to rules governing civil servants. However, it seems to be more of an attempt to reform the......
PESHAWAR: The health department is increasing the number of Covid-19 vaccination centres in the province before launching a campaign to inoculate people above 65 years of age against the virus along......
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the political leadership of France not to entrench the discriminatory attitudes against Muslim into laws and warned that such steps would lead to......
ISLAMAABD: Six Islamabad police stations’ SHOs were removed from their posts for poor performance, a police spokesman said.He said SHOs of Koral, Tarnol, Aapara, Barakahu, Nilore and Shahzad Town had......
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of lawyers’ associations on Saturday demanded reconstruction of chambers demolished by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the district administration in an......
LAHORE: Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has condemned PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz’ poisonous propaganda against the government and state institutions......
LAHORE: A professor of biochemistry and his department fellows have allegedly ‘ransacked’ Paeds Lab of the Mayo Hospital and took away equipment, official documents of the facility and the research......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has sealed seven more localities of Lahore on the reports of increase in Covid-19 cases.According to a notification issued on Saturday, the sealed areas were F Block......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Senate candidates from Islamabad, federal finance minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and Fauzia Arshad, along with some other federal ministers arrived in Lahore on......
KARACHI: An appeal challenging the acceptance of nomination papers of Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf for a Senate seat from Sindh for the upcoming......
KARACHI: As the Sindh government has vaccinated more than 30,000 healthcare providers against Covid-19 across the province so far since Feb 3, the authorities have revised the estimated number of......
MITHI: Voters go to by-polls today to pick candidate of their choice from among 12 contestants who are running for NA-221 (Tharparkar) and send him to National Assembly.The NA seat had fallen vacant......
KARACHI: Even after Agha’s Supermarket in Clifton was gutted by a fire last year, regular customers kept the faith that it would bounce back and would often go there to see how things were coming......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday sentenced Pakistan Peoples Party leader Dr Nisar Ahmed Jan Memon, alias Nisar Morai, and three others, to seven years in prison each in a case pertaining......
YANGON: Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second largest city as security forces fired live rounds on protestors, emergency workers and doctors said on Saturday — the latest show of force from a......
WASHINGTON: Private security contractor and ally of former US President Trump Erik Prince violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media......
MOSCOW: Russia said on Saturday its scientists had detected the first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu to humans and had alerted the World Health Organisation.In televised......
CHRISTCHURCH: Australian batsman Matthew Wade said he was not looking for an explanation from the national selectors after being dropped from the Test squad, knowing he had enough opportunities to......
MELBOURNE: The trouble for Naomi Osaka at Grand Slam tournaments comes in Week 1. Get beyond that stage at the hard-court majors, though, and start preparing to etch her name on the trophy.Osaka gave......
LAHORE: Mohammad Abid earned a double crown in the Gobi’s Paints Punjab Open Tennis Championship which concluded here at the PLTA Courts on Saturday.Abid overcame seasoned campaigner Heera Ashiq 6-7,......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh irrigation department and the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) are at loggerheads over the construction of the Rs125 billion Sindh barrage, approved by Prime......
LAHORE: A Chinese company is investing $150 million in an industrial park on Lahore’s border with Kasur, which will house state-of-the-art fabric units, dyeing facilities and garment manufacturing......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Sri Lanka have agreed to reactivate the Joint Working Group (JWG) for redressal of technical issues pending between the two trading partners, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)......
KARACHI: Karachi Port Trust (KPT) handled 739,493 tonnes of total cargo during the week (Feb 16-19) in which the share of import and export goods stood at 505,689 tonnes and 233,804 tonnes......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday commended the development of a Track and Trace (T&T) system for specific sectors to plug loopholes and enhance revenue collection in the country.The......
KARACHI: The stock market bounced back in the outgoing week with the KSE-100 Index reclaiming 419 points or 0.92 per cent to close at 46,228.Trading was volatile throughout the week with the index......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday said that India was attempting to mislead the world over the situation in occupied Kashmir through ‘guided tours’.FO Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, while......
GWADAR/CHAGAI: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who is on a four-day visit to Balochistan, has said that the government is boosting security arrangements by erecting fences along the borders......
WASHINGTON: A Pakistani soldier, Lance Naik Tahir Ikram, died in Sudan on Saturday when his truck met with an accident in the South Darfur region, Pakistan’s UN Mission announced.Tahir Ikram was......
ISLAMABAD: 4G service has finally reached South Waziristan a month after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the launch of internet service in the tribal areas allowing residents, particularly......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-Turkey counter-terrorism drills codenamed Ataturk-XI 2021 concluded on Saturday.The three-week-long exercises held at Tarbela were participated by special forces of Pakistan and......
KARACHI: Karachi Kings launched their title defence in the HBL Pakistan Super League 6 in style when they decimated Quetta Gladiators with consummate ease by seven wickets in the opening fixture of......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Saturday rejected the ordinance seeking open voting for the upper house of parliament, with PPP Senator Mian Raza Rabbani going to the extent of demanding......
• General healthcare workers, people above 60 years asked to get registered for vaccination • NCOC reports 1,340 new cases, 36 deathsISLAMABAD: With 504,500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine having been......
• General healthcare workers, people above 60 years asked to get registered for vaccination • NCOC reports 1,340 new cases, 36 deathsISLAMABAD: With 504,500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine having been......
ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will meet on Monday to discuss and decide whether or not to keep Pakistan on the grey list, Dawn has learned from knowledgeable sources.The virtual......
