LAHORE: Pakistan junior hockey team captain Mohammad Abdullah on Saturday demanded the team is given more international exposure ahead of their participation in the Junior World Cup...
At the same time, Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Haider Hussain demanded the government to do more in order to revive the national game...
JERUSALEM: Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt’s security forces were killed on Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near the border between the two countries, official sources from both sides said...
The Israeli army said an Egyptian assailant shot dead two soldiers “in the early morning...
SINGAPORE: The US on Saturday issued a fresh call for talks with China, as US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin urged Beijing at Asia’s top security summit to engage with Washington as “responsible defence leaders”...
“For responsible defence leaders, the right time to talk is any time,” Mr Austin said in a speech laying out the US vision for leadership in the Indo-Pacific on the second day of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore... ...
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has approved a summary to grant the status of Special Economic District (SED) to Gwadar for the city’s development and promotion of port-related activities...
An official handout issued on Saturday said the initiative would encourage exemptions on taxes for industrial activities...
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Punjab Secretary General Shafay Hussain has advised the embattled Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi to form his own party after quitting the PTI as there was no room for the former chief minister in the PML-Q...
Flanked by former Punjab governor Chaudhry Sarwar, Mr Hussain was speaking to media persons outside the Jinnah House, that was attacked and torched during May 9...
The May 9 riots will keep haunting the country’s political landscape for a long time...
The investigation into what transpired and led to riots and acts of sabotage following the PTI chief’s arrest requires time, an objective and scientific analysis, and detachment from any political prejudices...
SWAT: The Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Musarrat Hilali on Saturday directed the police to avoid lodging bogus cases in their pursuit to get promotions, warning if such practice was not discontinued the district police officer concerned as well as the provincial police chief would be held responsible...
The chief justice also called upon the lawyers’ community to avoid unnecessary adjournment of cases, especially that of...
Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause...
At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha...
KARACHI: With less than two weeks left in the Karachi mayoral election, the war of words between two leading contesting parties for the key municipal office intensified on Saturday when the Jamaat-i-Islami having a majority in terms of numbers after allying with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf warned the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party against imposing a ‘jiyala mayor’ on Karachiites by use of ‘undemocratic’ means...
The ruling party, on...
HONG KONG: Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for “seditious” acts and “disorderly conduct” on Saturday, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown...
Around the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay on Saturday, reporters witnessed police bundling several performance artists — some of whom appeared to be doing nothing — into police vans...
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) during a comprehensive visit to Adiala jail on Saturday found no evidence of inhuman or derogatory treatment of detained political workers...
The team was visiting the jail in response to reports of alleged torture and inhumane treatment of the political workers...
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) deploys the Iris recognition system at Nadra centres for identity verification and effectively addressing the duplicate identity issue...
The new biometric method, which was successfully piloted at the Nadra headquarters, has now been rolled out in Nadra mega centres at Blue Area, Islamabad, PECO Road, Lahore and DHA, Karachi...
MANSEHRA: The police raided the houses of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders here on Saturday...
However, no arrest was made as the police didn’t find PTI leaders at home...
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar will depart on a week-long trip to four European countries on Monday, said the Foreign Office...
The visits to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium will last till June 13...
The Punjab police decided on Sunday to approach the high court against a Lahore anti-terrorism court’s order to discharge PTI leader Yasmin Rashid in a case pertaining to vandalism at the Lahore Corps Commander’s Residence — also called Jinnah House — on May 9...
The PTI chief’s arrest at the Islamabad High Court last month by the paramilitary Rangers in a corruption case had sparked countrywide protests, during which several private...