Four soldiers were martyred and 12 terrorists killed in an operation to repulse militants from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chitral district on Wednesday, according to the military’s media wing.The Inter......
Power Minister Muhammad Ali and Information Minister Murtaza Solangi are addressing a press conference on a crackdown on electricity theft.“The background is that in our country, some domestic......
MADRID: A Spanish court said that football giants Barcelona may have benefited for almost two decades from “possible systemic corruption” within the country’s refereeing committee, court documents......
LAHORE: Afghanistan were once cruising towards achieving the impossible, only to eventually fall out of the Asia Cup and also heartbreakingly missing out on registering at least one victory in the......
NEW DELHI: Asian Cricket Council president Jay Shah on Tuesday attributed the body’s decision to host Asia Cup matches in Sri Lanka on teams’ reluctance to play ODIs in the UAE heat and abrupt......
LAHORE: In-form hosts Pakistan face Bangladesh in the first Super Four match of the Asia Cup here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday.This will be the last Asia Cup match Pakistan — the original......
SWABI/BAJAUR/HARIPUR: Four people, including two women, were seriously injured and 50 electricity poles were uprooted when a windstorm hit the Swabi district late on Monday night.Over a two dozen......
MANSEHRA/HARIPUR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali on Tuesday said it would be unfair to expect any relief in exorbitant power bills from the caretaker government due to the current economic......
LAHORE: The engineers and workers of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) staged a protest rally on Tuesday, demanding protection against lawless elements of committing power theft.The rally......
KARACHI: Sindh’s caretaker Home Minister retired Brigadier Haris Nawaz has become the subject of many memes after he advised people of Karachi to keep their cell phones in “places where they can’t......
• Police heads, commissioners set to be replaced • ECP okays transfer of several police officers • Khadim Rind to be made Karachi police chief • Notifications may be issued after chehlumKARACHI:......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 17 dengue patients arrived in three government hospitals on Tuesday, taking the tally of cases in the district to 277, with the District Health Authority warning of a possible......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Faisalabad Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday extended the physical remand of 32 suspects allegedly involved in the Jaranwala riots case (FIR 1262) for five days.The extension was......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority has decided to remove its land director in light of a scam in which the civic body officials along with a government watchdog attempted to gain possession......
ISLAMABAD: Facing shortage of medicine, Pakistan has expressed the desire to seek cooperation of Iran to address the issue.The drug regulatory authorities of both the countries will devise a......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said it was up to the consular officials at the Pakistan Embassy to issue or reject a visa request by a US citizen, and it did not relate to them.The issue was......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: A few hours long spell of rain with strong gusts in Rawalpindi and Islamabad inundated low-lying areas of the twin cities, including underpasses, uprooted trees, and also raised......
PARIS: France’s former domestic spy chief Bernard Squarcini will face trial in Paris on suspicion of influence peddling, largely for luxury giant LVMH, sources close to the case said on Tuesday.As......
VENICE: After the media was denied access to migrants desperately trying to cross the Polish-Belarus border, director Agnieszka Holland decided to step in and make a wrenching movie about their......
NAIROBI: The world is losing the race to meet its climate change goals, the president of the upcoming COP28 summit said on Tuesday, as African leaders called for changes to what they say is an unfair......
BANGKOK: Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn swore in Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and cabinet ministers in a coalition government made up of 11 parties on Tuesday.Srettha, whose Pheu Thai party leads......
PARIS: French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas — an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women — on the first day of the school year, a......
GENEVA: The UN voiced alarm on Tuesday at the use of legal proceedings in Bangladesh to intimidate and harass rights advocates and civil society leaders, including Nobel laureate and micro-credit......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said it was up to the consular officials at the Pakistan Embassy to issue or reject a visa request by a US citizen, and it did not relate to them.The issue was......
KARACHI: The rupee depreciated for the second session on Tuesday, falling by 0.48 per cent against the dollar to close at Rs307.10 in the interbank market, the central bank reported. However, after a......
WASHINGTON: The US said on Monday it expects North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to make a rare trip abroad to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia, where they are likely to discuss arms for Moscow’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has found 30 unnecessary sections in the income tax return form used by the salaried class and directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to create a new......
KARACHI: The shares market saw lacklustre activity on Tuesday amid low trading volumes and mixed economic signals.Topline Securities said trading commenced on a positive note as news agency Bloomberg......
I WORKED on a number of large community infrastructure development projects in the 1990s, some of which were disastrous but whose sponsors dubbed them as “best practices”. The reasons for the......
WE are living in a world of illusions. While the country is fast hurtling towards an economic meltdown, we are told that our bad days are over, with billions of dollars in investment soon expected to......
NEW DELHI: The Modi government on Tuesday appeared to have made an unannounced move towards changing the country’s name from the internationally recognised ‘India’ to the Hindi variant, ‘Bharat’.The......
LAHORE: The federal government has decided to launch a crackdown “with full force” against electricity theft across the country to tame mounting technical and commercial losses being faced by the......
LAHORE: The Punjab caretaker government has blamed a Lahore High Court (LHC) order for a steep increase in the price of sugar, saying that due to restrictions on the government to monitor the supply......
RECENT meetings between the army chief and representatives of the country’s business community, in Karachi and Lahore, have revealed the outlines of a plan to revive the country’s economy by......
Senator Saifullah Abro, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Power Presiding over a Meeting of The Committee at Parliament Lodges, Islamabad. — Senate • Standing committee......
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a petition contesting changes to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law, members of the three-judge bench debated the power of parliament......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday denied Sarwar Road police further physical remand of PTI women including fashion designer Khadija Shah, Sanam Javed, Tayyaba Ambreen, former MNA Alia Hamza......
ISLAMABAD: Targeted power subsidies for disadvantaged socioeconomic classes using around 200 units of electricity were not discouraged or curtailed by the government or the International Monetary......
KARACHI: The PPP on Tuesday appeared to demonstrate for the first time some flexibility in its rigid stance of holding general elections within 90 days, as it called for polls “according to the......
