MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic put aside the controversy surrounding his father to surge into a 10th Australian Open final Friday and close in on a record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam crown.Nine-time......
BHUBANESWAR: Gonzalo Peillat scored a second-half hat-trick and Niklas Wellen scored a last-minute goal as former champions Germany bounced back from two goals down Friday to stun Australia 4-3 and......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday removed its president for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Najamuddin Khan, and gave the acting charge of the office to provincial senior vice-president, Mohammad......
DUBAI: The women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa next month will feature for the first time an all-female panel of match officials, the International Cricket Council announced on Friday.Previous......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday granted bail to imprisoned MNA and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Ali Wazir in a sedition case registered in Charsadda district.It also stopped the......
• Health dept team collects samples from residents • Three more factories sealed by authoritiesKARACHI: After the death of 18 people, including 16 children, over the past few days due to inhaling of......
GUJRAT: At least 11 officials of Gujrat district jail, including an assistant superintendent, have been suspended from service by inspector general (IG) of prisons in the light of the findings of an......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday approached the Lahore High Court, seeking a direction to the Punjab governor to immediately announce the date of general election in the province......
RAWALPINDI: A gang of 12 armed men raided a poultry farm and took away 5,000 chicks after holding its employees hostage in Jatli.Waqas Ahmad, owner of the poultry farm, lodged an FIR with the police......
ISLAMABAD: After a two-day delay, the Indian baseball finally stepped into Pakistan.Waiting to be granted NOCs by their government, the Indian squad was stranded at the Wagah Border since its arrival......
ISLAMABAD: The government has withdrawn security from the residence of former premier Imran Khan at Banigala and called back police personnel and paramilitary troops.Police’s public relations officer......
LAHORE: A prime minister enjoying the support of 156 members of the National Assembly was sent packing and the one with the backing of only 56 has been imposed on Pakistan, regretted Asad Umar,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, recalling the long-standing and fraternal ties between Pakistan and Qatar on Friday, underscored the importance of translating the relationship into a......
LAHORE: In light of a cancellation report filed by the FIA, a judicial magistrate has quashed an FIR against PTI’s estranged leader Jahangir Tareen and his son for their alleged involvement in......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued the schedule for election on 33 National Assembly seats, setting March 16 as the by-polls date.The seats had fallen vacant after......
BERLIN: Recently deceased ex-pope Benedict described years of persistent sleeping troubles as the “main reason” behind his shock decision to step down in 2013, according to a German media report on......
ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Index (SPI), posted an increase of 32.57 per cent for the combined income group on a year-on-year basis ending Jan 26 due to a massive surge......
KARACHI: Manufacturers on Friday again jacked up steel bar prices to an unprecedented high of Rs277,000 per tonne blaming a massive rupee devaluation and rising prices of raw materials that pushed up......
“For a revolution to break out, it is not enough for the lower classes to refuse to live in the old way; it is necessary also that the upper classes should be unable to live in the old way.” —......
ELITE-BASHING is Pakistan’s newest sport. As the country stares into the default abyss, the ubiquitous phrase — ‘elite state capture’ — putatively explains all that has gone awry. Fat-cats are......
UNITED NATIONS: Women continue to comprise the largest share of trafficking victims in South Asia, a new UN report has said.In 2020, however, more men were detected as victims of trafficking in the......
An air of tragedy permeates Ali Muhammad Goth; after all, this is the locality where as many as 18 people are said to have lost their lives due to “poisonous factory emissions”.On the narrow street,......
WASHINGTON: The southern US city of Memphis braced itself for unrest on Friday as authorities prepared to release a body-camera video depicting the fatal assault of a Black man by five police......
KARACHI: In yet another provocative act on Friday, far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark, Anadolu Agency reported.The incident......
• Says financial situation needs to be fixed first • Punjab also ‘ready for elections’, but no date givenPESHAWAR/LAHORE: Hinting at a possible delay in holding elections, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its deepest dismay and shock at the vicious and vile act of the burning, tearing and desecrating the Holy Quran in Sweden......
KARACHI: As the rupee depreciated by 13.7 per cent against the US dollar in the last two days, the one-tola gold rate for the first time crossed the Rs200,000 mark despite a $6 drop on world markets......
• PTI chief claims PPP leader ‘paid terrorists being supported by state agency facilitators with corruption proceeds’ • Urges judiciary to act to protect democracy, fundamental rightsLAHORE: In a......
KARACHI: Days after the removal of an artificial upper cap on the rupee that sent the local currency into a nosedive, the dollar’s rate in the black market has come on a par with that in the open......
• Minister challenges Imran to live debate on economy • Shehbaz confident of IMF agreement this monthISLAMABAD: The prime minister and his finance czar continued to blame the previous government for......
ELITE-BASHING is Pakistan’s newest sport. As the country stares into the default abyss, the ubiquitous phrase — ‘elite state capture’ — putatively explains all that has gone awry. Fat-cats are......
“For a revolution to break out, it is not enough for the lower classes to refuse to live in the old way; it is necessary also that the upper classes should be unable to live in the old way.” —......
