The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Sunday prohibited the broadcasting and rebroadcasting of speeches and press talks by PTI chief Imran Khan on all satellite TV channels......
NEW DELHI: Steve Smith has no ambition to be Australia’s full-time captain again but the 33-year-old may continue to lead them in the fourth and final Test against India as regular captain Pat......
LONDON: Arsenal recovered from conceding the second-fastest goal in Premier League history as Reiss Nelson’s stoppage-time strike gave the Premier League leaders a thrilling 3-2 win over Bournemouth......
LAHORE: Once Rashid Khan began producing magic with the ball, he cast a spell over the Multan Sultans batters from which they could never recover.The Afghan leg-spinner ripped through the heart of......
CHRISTCHURCH: Coach Chris Silverwood said Sri Lanka would be doing their absolute best to qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) final during their two-match series in New Zealand to give......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Saturday expressed serious concerns over the shortage of census staff in the west district and demanded the authorities concerned address the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday issued a notice to a Rangers prosecutor to appear in court on the next date in the decade-old Arshad Pappu murder case for recording his testimony against......
KHYBER/BAJAUR: Protesters in Jamrud and Bara tehsils on Saturday ended their protest against the excessive loadshedding after officials of the Tribal Areas Electric Supply Company (Tesco) and......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has referred the case of six Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority officials for promotion to the relevant selection board for decision.A bench consisting of Justice......
• Believes PML-N had serious misunderstanding about PTI’s popularity • Opines core issue is politics and economic crisis is its consequenceKARACHI: Seasoned politician Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed......
After he was ousted in April 2022, Imran Khan planned to lead a ‘long march’ that was supposed to storm Islamabad and force the new government to resign.He named the march ‘Azaadi March’......
ISLAMABAD: There is a need for comprehensive and multi-faceted strategies to improve access to reproductive healthcare services for young mothers and their families.The low social status of women and......
KARACHI: Social engineering, which involves cybercriminals manipulating people into giving up confidential financial information, has become a “big and very significant trend” in the Pakistani......
KARACHI: Trading began in the outgoing week on a negative note owing to uncertainty over the resumption of the loan programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Arif Habib Ltd said......
NEW DELHI: India raised its windfall tax on crude oil marginally while cutting the tax on exports of diesel, according to a government notification on Saturday.The windfall tax on crude was raised to......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) led by its president Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari held a meeting with Pemra Chairman Mohammad Saleem Baig in his office and......
LAHORE: In various government-to-government and business-to-business meetings held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) between the Ravi Urban Development Authority (Ruda) and the business community,......
KARACHI: Despite fiscal tightening, the government’s borrowing for budgetary support surged to Rs1.8 trillion during the first seven and half months of FY23 against a net retirement of Rs245.8......
KARACHI: As flour millers resumed operations and restored supplies to markets on Saturday, a day after talks with the Sindh government, retailers have yet to lower prices.On Thursday, more than 90......
LAHORE: As short-term inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Index, hit 41.07 per cent in the week ended on March 2, life for the overwhelming majority of Pakistan becomes next to impossible as......
TAXILA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi after his release from Attock jail on Saturday said the dawn of a new political and democratic era was not far and the nation......
ISLAMABAD: An inquiry into the sale of infectious hospital waste in the market has revealed the “involvement of a senior official” of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in the sale of......
QUETTA: A local tribe in the Chagai district while claiming right to the Reko Diq area of gold and copper reserves has said the government signed an agreement with the Canadian company, Barrick Gold......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched an income beyond means probe against former prime minister Imran Khan’s adviser on accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar.The NAB is also......
LAHORE: A lawyer has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court seeking contempt proceedings against former prime minister Imran Khan for his alleged campaign against the institution of......
LAHORE: An initial inquiry has unearthed bogus files of 100 residential plots in Johar Town as there is no record of them available with the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) that can prove......
PHANG NGA: It is past midnight on a beach in southern Thailand and 12-year-old Prin Uthaisangchai is anxiously staring at a leatherback turtle nest, waiting for scores of the endangered hatchlings to......
GUJRAT: PML-N’s chief organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif has asked party officials to adopt an aggressive political approach to promote the party’s narrative against the rival PTI if they want to win the......
JAKARTA: Residents searched through the remains of their charred homes on Saturday as Indonesian state energy firm Pertamina apologised for a fire at a Jakarta fuel storage depot it said killed at......
ISLAMABAD: As it grapples with the US dollar shortage, the government decided in principle to increase the special Haj quota for overseas Pakistani nationals from 25 per cent to 50pc, as Finance......
JUST a week before the third anniversary of the Doha Agreement, a high-profile delegation from Pakistan led by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif visited Kabul on Feb 22. It was not there to greet the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Saturday put to death two men, including one convicted of attempting to blow up an oil facility, bringing to six the number of executions this year, state media reported.The......
“IMRAN Khan is the new establishment”, was a comment that caught one’s eye on Twitter, but even after having tried as hard as possible, I can’t seem to remember who wrote that, and so am unable to......
DUBAI: Worried parents protested in Iran’s capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to......
NEW DELHI: An India-Pakistan peace pact was ready to be signed by past leaders before they lost power, but it remains alive after the Modi government vetted it, according to a book quoted in a review......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will leave for Qatar today (Sunday) to participate in the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), being held in Doha from March......
LAHORE: The PPP is forging ahead with its polls’ preparation even as its coalition partner in the Centre, the PML-N, is still mulling its future course of action.The PPP has sought applications from......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Ghulam Ali on Saturday expressed reservations over the Supreme Court ruling that elections in Punjab and KP be held within 90 days, saying that if any......
• PTI chief strikes a more reconciliatory note; says he is ready to forgive everyone except ‘looters’ of national wealth • Announces start of election campaign, first public gathering to be held next......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has filed a reference against Supreme Court Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi after his name surfaced in connection with an alleged audio leak.Lawyers associated with the party......
LONDON: A retired general on Saturday discarded the former army chief’s pledge that the military would remain out of Pakistani politics, saying he did not attach any importance to what an outgoing......
Punjab, in its extended form, is located at the confluence of the fertile plains of the Vedic Sapta-Sindhu — land of seven rivers — and the mountainous ranges of Afghanistan. During the 19th century,......
JUST a week before the third anniversary of the Doha Agreement, a high-profile delegation from Pakistan led by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif visited Kabul on Feb 22. It was not there to greet the......
“IMRAN Khan is the new establishment”, was a comment that caught one’s eye on Twitter, but even after having tried as hard as possible, I can’t seem to remember who wrote that, and so am unable to......
NEW DELHI: An India-Pakistan peace pact was ready to be signed by past leaders before they lost power, but it remains alive after the Modi government vetted it, according to a book quoted in a review......
