Armoured police vehicles arrived at PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore on Tuesday as a senior Islamabad police official said that police had arrived to arrest the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board interim management committee chairman Najam Sethi on Monday said that the government will take a final decision on whether the national team travels to India for this......
AHMEDABAD: India won their fourth series in a row against Australia after a fourth and final Test lit up by an epic 186 by Virat Kohli ended in a draw on Monday in Ahmedabad.The hosts won the series......
DHAKA: Skipper Jos Buttler has defended England’s experimental selections after the world champions lost the Twenty20 series in Bangladesh with a match to spare.The hosts won the first T20 by six......
BILBAO: Barcelona winger Raphinha secured a 1-0 win in La Liga for the second straight week this time at Athletic Bilbao as his side tightened their grip on top spot ahead of a potentially......
PARIS: Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists began a week-long huddle in Switzerland on Monday to distil nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about......
LONDON: UK hospital doctors on Monday began a three-day strike over pay at the start of a week that will also see teachers, train staff and civil servants walk out, in the latest wave of industrial......
LONDON: Britain’s BBC reinstated its highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker on Monday after its suspension of the former England football captain for criticising state immigration policy brought a......
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Monday referred petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages to a larger, constitutional bench next month, a day after the government said it opposed the......
RAMALLAH: The oldest Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail was released on Monday after serving a 17-year sentence for arms smuggling, an advocacy group and his son said.Fuad Shubaki, 83, was......
SEOUL: North Korea said on Monday it had test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine, as South Korea and the United States kicked off their largest joint military exercises in five......
KARACHI: A water tanker went out of its driver’s control and rammed into a house on main Sunset Boulevard in Defence Housing Authority on Monday, police said.Defence SHO Shoaib Rehman said that the......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday increased the number of union committees (UCs) in Karachi by 53.There were already 246 UCs in Karachi and the number has now increased to 299.A notification to......
SWAT: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement chief Manzoor Pashteen has said that demanding restoration of peace is not treachery against the state but their constitutional right.He was addressing a gathering in......
KARACHI: Chronic poverty, poor access to water, poor hygiene and sanitation practices, seasonal migration, early marriages, low birth spacing, lack of connectivity of transport and inadequate human......
LAHORE: The police on Monday told the Lahore High Court (LHC) that PTI chairman Imran Khan was being provided with adequate security as per the law.A report filed on behalf of the capital city police......
LAHORE: Pakistan is a ‘hostage’ to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and it is treating it like a colony, PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz says.“The IMF is not ready to trust us. Pakistan is a......
RAWALPINDI: With an aim to complete it by March 17, the Punjab government on Monday started screening prisoners at Adiala Jail in a health initiative that will be extended to other 43 jails across......
KARACHI: Dark clouds continued to hover over the auto sector as overall sales of cars, vans, pickups and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) posted a 73 per cent year-on-year drop in February to 5,762......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday said it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran to supply 100 megawatts of electricity to Gwadar.Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan paid a three-day......
KARACHI: Foreign investors have come out with all guns blazing against the Board of Investment and other “relevant ministries” for turning a blind eye to their plethora of problems, including the......
QUETTA: The business community of Quetta on Monday agreed to cooperate with the government in its efforts to tackle the energy crisis and decided to close down shops at 8.30pm.A meeting held with the......
PARIS: A Pakistani journalist in exile has turned his life story into a comic book.Taha Siddiqui’s therapist told him not to dwell on the attempted kidnapping he suffered five years ago, or he would......
LONDON: A UK High Court Judge has ruled that the words used by three PTI representatives against Murtaza Ali Shah, London-based correspondent for Geo TV and The News, were defamatory at common law.At......
EACH year, the Aurat March takes place in cities across Pakistan to protest against the challenges faced by women and khawaja siras in our society, as well as larger national issues. Apart from......
PUNJAB has a date, finally, thanks to the Supreme Court while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to use Dawn’s fabulous analogy, continues its search for the elusive moon, or consensus between the governor and the......
KARACHI: While most of the attention was fixated on leaders who took away cars and watches after paying peanuts, little has been said so far about low-ranking government employees taking away luxury......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan will need to pause debt repayments if it does not secure funding from the International Monetary Fund soon enough, a US bank warned as diplomatic circles in Washington indicated......
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden declared the US banking system “safe” and vowed stiffer bank regulation, after US regulators were forced to step in with a series of emergency measures following the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday held that the court magistrate or oath commissioner attesting any affidavit should be known to an applicant, who is filing a plea to challenge the candidature......
LAHORE: A day after the Cabinet Division released details of the Toshakhana gifts for the last 21 years, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the law officer representing the federal......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a strict austerity policy announced by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif last month, his cabinet colleagues and subordinate senior officers have given a hoot to the fiscal restraint......
ISLAMABAD: In a significant step aimed at facilitating cotton farmers, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday approved its support price at Rs8,500 per 40 kilograms.The prime minister while......
PUNJAB has a date, finally, thanks to the Supreme Court while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to use Dawn’s fabulous analogy, continues its search for the elusive moon, or consensus between the governor and the......
• Zardari’s luxury cars ‘most expensive’ purchase on record; Imran retained most of 111 gifts received • Experts question under-valuation of gifts; call for changing rules, price threshold for......
KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have killed two ‘masterminds’ of last month’s deadly attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO), while two other suspects affiliated with the outlawed......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Two policemen embraced martyrdom and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern districts of Tank and......
• Commission to meet with governor, will review arrangements for elections in Punjab • PTI challenges ban on rallies in Lahore; CEC, ECP contempt cases to be taken up todayISLAMABAD: The Election......
ISLAMABAD: Seeking to take away prime minister’s powers to retain retiring services chiefs and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, three separate bills — the Pakistan Army (Amendment)......
