• Says Pakistanis cannot be left at the mercy of Nawaz, Zardari and Fazl • Qureshi’s son reaffirms loyalty to Imran; Qaiser, Habib rubbish Fawad’s claims • PTI assails govt attempt to ‘negotiate with defectors’RAWALPINDI / ISLAMABAD: In a move that left many scratching their heads, a group of PTI defectors led by Fawad Chaudhry met Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Adiala Jail on Wednesday, apparently to convince the party’s vice chairman to desert...
PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was arrested outside his Zahoor Elahi residence in Lahore on Thursday in connection with a corruption case...
Television footage showed Elahi being forcefully taken away on a road during the arrest, which came after multiple futile raids at his house...
KARACHI: The government raised Rs2...
29 trillion through treasury bill auctions on Wednesday, surpassing the target, as well as the requirement for the maturity of the bills...
PARIS: France’s sports minister argued Wednesday that the 2024 Paris Olympics should not be a “scapegoat for all of our frustrations” while denying that plans to move homeless people out of the capital were linked to the games...
Reports emerged last week that the government had asked officials in regions around the country to prepare temporary facilities for the homeless from Paris in anticipation of an accommodation crunch in the...
Greg Barclay, the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) tipped Pakistan cricket to reach “another level” citing “great facilities” and ability to host international cricket...
Barclay and ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice are on a two-day tour of Pakistan to hold meetings with the PCB’s interim Management Committee chairman Najam Sethi and other top officials...
At least five people died and three others were left wounded on Thursday in an explosion inside a house in the Daira Din Panah area of Punjab’s Kot Addu district, the police said...
Muzaffargarh District Police Officer (DPO) Syed Hasnain Haider, while confirming the incident, told Dawn...
• Panel on audio leaks maintains challenges to its formation not taken up as per SC (Practice & Procedure) Act • IHC stays proceedings of NA body probing audio of ex-CJP’s sonISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has adjourned until next week the hearing of challenges against a government-notified commission to investigate audio leaks, after the fact-finding body objected to the proceedings, saying that they did not conform with the requirements of a...
• Dozens of dogs poisoned by DMC-East • Official says LG law makes local councils responsible for seizure, treatment of stray animals, but makes no mention of culling dogs • Experts urge govt to find scientific way to control canine population, say dogs vaccinated against rabies are less aggressiveKARACHI: Despite having a fully fledged rabies control programme in the province under which the government is supposed to control canine...
BERLIN: A 15-year-old footballer from Berlin died Wednesday after he was seriously injured in a fight with players from a French team at an international youth tournament, police said...
The teenager “died in hospital as a result of his severe brain injuries” after being hit on the head in the altercation in Frankfurt on Sunday, local police said in a statement...
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed banks to acquire US dollars from the interbank market for the settlement of card-based cross-border transactions with the International Payment System, apparently to bring down the dollar rate in the open market...
The SBP issued a circular on Wednesday, which indicates that this is a short-term move as the permission granted to banks will end on July 31...
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has termed International Monetary Fund (IMF) Pakistan chief Nathan Porter’s recent statement — which is being seen as a comment on the country’s political situation — “meddling in our internal affairs”...
While the IMF usually does not comment on domestic politics, in a statement on Tuesday, Porter said the IMF hopes “a peaceful way forward is found in line with the Constitution and the rule of law”... ...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman on Wednesday sent a Rs10 billion defamation notice to five doctors of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and Polyclinic hospitals, alleging that they prepared a “fake medical report”...
A day earlier, Mr Khan had sent a similar notice to Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel over “false, disparaging, malicious and defamatory” allegations in a press conference wherein he...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday asked Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan which “public authority or agency” should be held accountable for tapping phones without legal cover...
The court raised the question in a seven-page order issued on a petition filed by Najam Saqib, son of former chief justice Saqib Nisar, against a National Assembly committee tasked with investigating his purported audio leak,...
THE term ‘untouchable’ has a different connotation in each culture and religion...
To Christians, the words noli me tangere are attributed to Jesus Christ who, after his resurrection, deterred his follower Mary Magdalene from touching him...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday reduced fuel prices by Rs5 to 8 per litre for the next fortnight in line with the global market trend...
In a video address, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said the price of petrol had been reduced by Rs8 per litre, whereas the price of high-speed diesel — the most inflationary item — and that of light diesel oil (LDO) was cut by Rs5 each...