PESHAWAR: Insaf lawyers Forum (ILF), the lawyer wing of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, on Thursday approached Peshawar High Court for constituting a high-powered joint investigation team to probe the......
PESHAWAR: Twenty-eight people arrested for protesting outside and firing at the army centres and vandalising the statues of war heroes in Mardan district on May 9 have moved the Peshawar High Court......
PESHAWAR: The political leadership in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has decided to form a jirga to meet Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and ask him to steer the province out of the financial crisis.This was......
HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Energy Khurram Dastagir Khan said on Thursday that in an internal enquiry into the October 2022’s countrywide breakdown, Nepra had found that 26-year-old conductors......
LAUSANNE: The French Olympic movement must “focus” on the preparations for the 2024 Games in Paris, an IOC spokesperson told AFP on Thursday hours after Brigitte Henriques’ surprise resignation as......
MADRID: Four men detained on suspicion of hanging an effigy of Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior from a bridge have been banned from Spanish stadiums, a Madrid court ruled Thursday.The men, who were......
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Thursday decided to build 6,500 housing units over an area of 248 acres to resettle the families whose homes were removed from three major stormwater drains (nullahs) in......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Thursday claimed that some 15 million Karachiites remained uncounted in the enumeration process, warning that the “fraud” in the name of digital census will not......
PARIS: Novak Djokovic could face world number one Carlos Alcaraz in the semi-finals of the French Open after both players were placed in the same half of the draw on Thursday.Djokovic is chasing a......
ISLAMABAD: Rules in accordance with the “Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Act, 2021” have been launched for the implementation of the law that aimed to put an end to corporal punishment at schools......
TOKYO: A woman and two male police officers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack at a farm in central Japan on Thursday, police said.A suspect, believed to be a farmer in his 30s, was holed......
LAHORE: A team of anti-corruption establishment and police again raided the residence of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday in Lahore to arrest him after his......
WASHINGTON: A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of US critical infrastructure organisations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs, Western intelligence......
A HUNDRED years ago, the Legal Practitioners (Women) Act, 1923, was passed in British India, with a preamble that read: “An Act for the removal of doubts regarding the right of women to be enrolled......
LONDON: Net migration in the UK hit a record 606,000 in 2022, official figures showed on Thursday, heaping pressure on the government, which has pledged to cut dependency on foreign labour.Responding......
THE PTI as we knew it is on its death-bed. While Imran Khan was always and is still the truly big fish in a small pond, the clearly forced departures of Shireen Mazari and Fawad Chaudhry, as well as......
KARACHI: Six in every 10 cryptocurrency users are eager for artificial intelligence (AI) advancements in blockchain and trading, according to a survey released on Thursday by KuCoin, one of the......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has called the meetings of the Annual Planning Coordination Committee (APCC) and National Economic Council (NEC) on June 2 and 3, respectively, to finalise the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economy experienced a notable decline in its GDP size in dollar terms, growth rate and per capita income during the outgoing 2022-23, marking the slowest expansion in the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Thursday notified about a 79 paise per unit additional fuel cost adjustment (FCA) in power tariff for ex-Wapda distribution......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday told a Senate panel that his visit to India to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) meeting proved productive and......
KARACHI: Before the arrival of Russian crude oil, a container vessel Crystal St Petersburg on its maiden call reached Karachi Port in just 21 days.The vessel took berth at Karachi International......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s struggle to service its debt is a disaster for the country, but it’s not very good for the rest of the world either, says economist Michael Pettis.Mr Pettis, a senior fellow at......
ISLAMABAD: The chief justice of Pakistan on Thursday regretted that a constitutional body like the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) apparently needs capacity building since it is inactive, inert......
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has so far not apologised for her remarks, and demands that the PM clarify her statement have not elicited a response.—AFP LONDON: A group of......
DUBAI: Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000km range on Thursday, state media said, two days after the chief of Israel’s armed forces raised the prospect of......
WASHINGTON: Ratings agency Fitch put the United States on notice Wednesday that its perfect credit rating could be jeopardised if the White House and Republican opposition fail to overcome their......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday his party will not resist any move to impose a ban on PTI “for promoting extremism and violence”.Earlier, the PPP leader had voiced his......
ISLAMABAD: An undaunted Imran Khan on Thursday challenged the way his supporters are being treated over riots, urging the Supreme Court to declare the arrests, investigation and trial of......
ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan, his wife, Bushra Bibi, and dozens of party leaders and activists have been placed on a no-fly list, sources told Dawn on Thursday.These names, the sources said,......
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lays a floral wreath at the Shuhada Monument in the army graveyard on the occasion of Youm-i-Takreem-i-Shuhada-i-Pakistan, on......
A HUNDRED years ago, the Legal Practitioners (Women) Act, 1923, was passed in British India, with a preamble that read: “An Act for the removal of doubts regarding the right of women to be enrolled......
ISLAMABAD: Amid a global power rivalry between the United States and China, Pakistan on Thursday rejected speculations it had joined ‘the China bloc’.“I would like to refute any such speculation......
THE PTI as we knew it is on its death-bed. While Imran Khan was always and is still the truly big fish in a small pond, the clearly forced departures of Shireen Mazari and Fawad Chaudhry, as well as......
LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has cancelled the basic membership of all leaders and office-bearers who had quit the party during the past few days.Although several leaders have parted ways with PTI......
• Maleeka, Musarrat and Jamshed Cheema latest faces to part ways with Imran; Ejaz Chaudhry detained again • PML-Q welcomes eight politicians, including Ayesha Gulalai PTI leaders......
