The World Bank (WB) has agreed to provide more than $3 billion to Pakistan for infrastructure development in the energy sector, according to a press release issued by the Power Division on Monday.The......
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam should stand aside and give Mohammad Haris his opener slot to boost their top order firepower in Wednesday’s Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand, former......
Bowler Tim Southee said New Zealand will not underestimate Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals despite the latter’s struggles to make it through the group phase.Pakistan looked set to exit......
LAHORE: Opener Sidra Ameen crafted yet another match-winning knock to help Pakistan women’s team outplay Ireland by nine wickets in the second One-day International of their three-match series here......
PARIS: Reigning Paris Masters champion Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in a three-set epic on Saturday to set up a title clash with Holger Rune, who reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final......
BARCELONA: Barcelona enjoyed a 2-0 win over Almeria on Saturday but the night belonged to defender Gerard Pique’s who was playing his last game at the Camp Nou after he announced he will retire from......
MELBOURNE: Suryakumar Yadav hit a blazing unbeaten 61 as a proud India set up a Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against England by crushing Zimbabwe by 71 runs here at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground......
KHYBER: Speakers at a rally in Bara tehsil here on Sunday called for effective steps to establish durable peace in the Khyber district.The peace rally was organised under the banner of Pakhtun......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Central Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi says as soon as Imran Khan is able to stand and walk, he will join the long march, which will begin from......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ordered quashing of an FIR registered against several protesters in Lower Dir for staging a demonstration despite ban imposed by the deputy commissioner under......
SWAT: Tourists have started visiting Swat again to enjoy the natural beauty of the scenic valley after restoration of peace.The inflow of tourists was badly affected by the recent devastating floods......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has extended the look-after charge of Chief Secretary Abdullah Khan Sumbal for the fourth consecutive time – for a month.Sources say former chief secretary Kamran Ali......
KARACHI: In what appears to be his first contact with national leaders since his appointment more than a month ago, Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori on Friday called leaders of different political......
LAHORE: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira has challenged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to go home if he cannot get justice from his own......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Sunday announced that it was launching a new bus service in the city comprising “completely environment-friendly” fleet of electric vehicles.Sindh Information and......
After 18 years of deliberations and nineteen rounds of negotiations, Pakistan recently signed a preferential trade agreement with Turkey. Both sides have expressed optimism that with increased market......
Shyam Saran Negi, the man dubbed “India’s first voter” has died at the age of 105 in Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh, BBC reported on Sunday.He was thought to be the first person to cast a vote in the......
LIMA: Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Lima on Saturday to call for the removal of President Pedro Castillo, the subject of an unprecedented six investigations for......
KABUL: The Taliban on Sunday revealed the final resting place of the movement’s founder, Mullah Omar, whose death and burial they kept secret for years.Rumours surrounding Omar’s health and......
The worsening economic crisis has triggered human and political crises, eroded social cohesion and posed a risk to our national security. The outlook for the future at the moment appears to be......
The working of Sindh’s food department is once again under a cloud. The distribution of wheat by department among roller flour mills and owners of chakkis was hit by discrepancies, putting consumers......
Tax revenue collection remains behind the target and the fiscal deficit is growing, forcing the federal government to borrow excessively from commercial banks at high rates of return.Between July 1......
LAHORE: Punjab police chief Faisal Shahkar refused to work with the current political setup in the province led by Chief Minister Parvez Elahi after PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi passed ‘hateful......
The proceedings and recent remarks of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan in the Reko Diq case have not inspired confidence in investors. They are hoping for more informed proceedings and a......
KAFR JALES: Syrian regime rocket fire killed nine people, including three children, at makeshift camps for displaced people in the country’s last major rebel-held bastion early on Sunday, a war......
After 18 years of deliberations and nineteen rounds of negotiations, Pakistan recently signed a preferential trade agreement with Turkey. Both sides have expressed optimism that with increased market......
Times have changed. In the mid-80s, President Ronald Reagan and King Fahd colluded to crash the oil markets, making it financially impossible for the then-Soviet Union to continue its Afghanistan......
MASTODON, a social networking site, has been around since 2016, but many people might not have heard about it. But it all changed since the whirlwind week at Twitter resulted in mass lay-offs, $8 for......
Over the past two decades, Pakistani banking has undergone drastic shifts. There were the good days when foreign banks could be spotted every few kilometres in the major cities, and consumer......
THE assassination attempt on PTI leader Imran Khan has plunged the country into chaos at a time when tensions between the opposition and government were already spiralling out of control. Such......
IN the D.K. Basu case, the Indian supreme court, while discussing custodial torture, observed, “Torture is a wound in the soul so painful that sometimes you can almost touch it, but it is also so......
THE assassination attempt on PTI leader Imran Khan has plunged the country into chaos at a time when tensions between the opposition and government were already spiralling out of control. Such......
