Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will embark on a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday at the invitation of President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.A press release issued by......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Tuesday that it had been in talks with South Africa’s Mickey Arthur for appointing him as the head coach for the men’s team.Arthur is currently coaching......
• Pledges exceed $10bn; IDB, World Bank, ADB, AIIB and EU to contribute lion’s share • PM asks Fund for ‘leniency’ as country rebuilds • UN chief says Pakistan floods prime example of ‘loss,......
MELBOURNE: Players at this month’s Australian Open will not be required to take Covid-19 tests and could play even if they had the virus, tournament director Craig Tiley said on Monday.The health......
PARIS: French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet came under fire on Monday as he was forced to apologise for what he dubbed his own “clumsy remarks” about Zinedine Zidane’s potential......
SYDNEY: Australia captain Pat Cummins believes his side have as good a chance of winning a Test series in India as they will ever have when they play four matches on the sub-continent in......
GUWAHATI: Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been pulled out of the ODI series against Sri Lanka due to back stiffness, skipper Rohit Sharma said on Monday, less than a week after he was recalled......
KARACHI: Hours after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected the plea of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and ruled that the local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad......
KARACHI: The Sindh administration on Monday finally decided to launch a massive crackdown against profiteers and hoarders across the province as Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah took serious notice......
PARIS: Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain will play a friendly against a select side made up of players from Cristiano Ronaldo’s new club Al Nassr and their Saudi rivals Al Hilal in Riyadh on Jan 19,......
IT has been exactly one year since the Green Line Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) began operation in the much longing for a public-transport system in the city of Karachi.Stepping into the Numaish......
LONDON: Prince Harry’s denial that he accused his family of racism was interpreted in the UK press on Monday as a bizarre peace offering, but commentators argued the damage had already been done as......
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: The sit-in in Wana, the headquarters of South Waziristan tribal district, continued on fourth consecutive day on Monday as protesters demanded restoration of durable peace in the......
NEW DELHI: Heavy fog in Delhi on Monday delayed flights, and a cold wave forced authorities to defer school reopenings a week, as visibility fell and cars drove with their hazard lights on.The Indira......
QUETTA: Three cargo ships carrying around 96,000 tonnes of urea anchored at the Gwadar port as the federal government has decided to increase the bulk of cargo imported through the port to make it......
FRANKFURT: German industrial production recovered slightly in November, official figures published Monday showed, as fears of an energy crisis eased although prospects for Europe’s top economy......
KARACHI: Mari Petroleum Company Ltd said on Monday it made a gas discovery at its exploratory well Mari Ghazij-1, located in Mari Development and Production Lease (D&PL) in Sindh.Mari Petroleum is......
ISLAMABAD: There is a dire need for obtaining high resolution (HR) photos of over 4,000 terrorists, criminals and proclaimed offenders (POs) to make the Safe City Islamabad capable of apprehending......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has given the federal government 10 days – the time period required by the election watchdog to conduct elections on 101 union councils (UCs) – to justify......
KARACHI: Bears ran amok on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Monday because of continued political and economic instability.Arif Habib Ltd said the news about TRG Pakistan Ltd entangled in judicial......
LONDON: Britain on Monday scaled back its energy bill support for businesses after warning that the current level of assistance was unsustainable for public finances.The government is currently......
KARACHI: About seven million people in textile and textile-related industries have been laid off due to dwindling exports and the government’s failure to end the economic crisis, representatives of......
ISLAMABAD: The export of services grew nearly six per cent in the first five months of 2022-23 on a year-on-year basis mainly on the back of IT sales.The country achieved this growth at a time when......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court came down hard on the Pakistan Railways (PR) on Monday, observing that the entity should improve its efficiency instead of focusing on “fanciful ideas”.The observation......
We face many paths to doom today — both economic and security-related — but only a few paths to avoid it. But the state doesn’t adopt these paths as they undermine the interests of strong civilian......
There are no clichés left to describe the current state of affairs in Pakistan. There aren’t many adjectives left either. They just seem inadequate or overused, though the crises are palpable.......
ISLAMABAD: The UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) warned on Monday that up to four million children are still living near contaminated and stagnant floodwaters, risking their survival and well-being, more......
PARIS: The ozone layer that shields life on Earth from deadly solar radiation is on track to recover within decades, but controversial geoengineering schemes to blunt global warming could reverse......
GENEVA: Donors on Monday committed to give Pakistan over $10 billion to help it recover from last year’s devastating floods.Officials from some 40 countries as well as private donors and......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the city police chief to recover and produce Ahmad Farhan Khan, a friend of former federal minister Moonis Elahi, after the Federal......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Zulfi Bukhari appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday in connection with an inquiry pertaining to a settlement between the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will remove Covid-19 restrictions for the 2023 Haj season and host pre-pandemic numbers of pilgrims, the kingdom’s ministry of Haj and Umrah said on Monday.In 2019, the last year......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday fired a broadside at Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet members for allegedly spending a huge amount on their “flopped” trip to......
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: While a local court in Islamabad on Monday once again issued summons for PTI Chairman Imran Khan after he skipped the hearing of an ECP reference on Toshakhana gifts, the Lahore......
KARACHI: A ship carrying 60,000 tonnes of wheat from Russia arrived at the Port Qasim while another ship carrying the grain from Ukraine was at the outer anchorage of Karachi port as the government......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court held on Monday that a detained accused should not be made to suffer because his advocate was on strike.“The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has enacted the Canons of......
• Asks MPAs to persuade CM to take confidence vote, dissolve Punjab Assembly • Elahi calls on former PM, assures all-out supportLAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday......
• Pledges exceed $10bn; IDB, World Bank, ADB, AIIB and EU to contribute lion’s share • PM asks Fund for ‘leniency’ as country rebuilds • UN chief says Pakistan floods prime example of ‘loss,......
There are no clichés left to describe the current state of affairs in Pakistan. There aren’t many adjectives left either. They just seem inadequate or overused, though the crises are palpable.......
