• PM promises Fund chief ‘relief-budget’ within programme requirements • Terms statement by Nathan Porter ‘intervention in domestic political matters’ • SBP gives clean chit to banks for allegedly ‘manipulating’ dollar ratesISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday saw a new window of hope to get stalled funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s telephonic engagement with Kristalina Georgieva, the...
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least two suspected militants were killed and a soldier protecting a polio team embraced martyrdom in separate incidents of violence in multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday...
Local officials told Dawn that security personnel, including 25-year-old Sepoy Saqibur Rehman, was deployed on duty to protect polio workers during a vaccination campaign underway in the Spinwam tehsil of Mir Ali, North...
NEW YORK: If New York is the city that never sleeps then how’s this for keeping you up at night? It is also sinking...
The Big Apple is gradually going down partly because of the weight of the skyscrapers that make the concrete jungle famous, a new study has found
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
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...
WASHINGTON: Incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui had the first reunion in 20 years with her sister Fowzia at a prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday...
The two sisters met again on Wednesday and will have a third meeting on Thursday (today) at Carswell, the prison medical facility in Fort Worth
BERLIN: Germany said on Wednesday it will drastically reduce Moscow’s diplomatic presence on its soil in response to a similar move from Russia, in the latest escalation of tensions over the war in Ukraine...
Berlin has ordered four of Moscow’s five consulates in Germany to close, a foreign ministry spokesman told a regular government press conference
• 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...
The rupee rose sharply against the US dollar in the open market on Thursday, gaining Rs11...
5 to reach Rs299
• 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...
An eight-member larger bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will resume hearing a set of petitions against the Supreme Court (Practice & Procedure) Act, 2023 — aimed at limiting the powers of the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) — shortly...
Headed by CJP Umar Ata Bandial, the bench, which on April 13 suspended the bill before it was enacted, comprises Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice...
LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the crackdown initiated against the PTI in light of the May 9 demonstrations has the opposite of the desired effect, as all it was “doing is adding to sympathy for [the] PTI and increasing its vote bank”...
In a series of tweets, the PTI chairman lashed out at the government for forcing the party members to quit the PTI and shared ‘self-explanatory’ videos of a former lawmaker as...
ISLAMABAD: The country is inching towards streamlining the moon sighting process as the National Assembly on Wednesday passed “The Pakistan Ruet-e-Hilal Bill 2022” banning the establishment of private committees and announcement of the status of new moon ahead of the official declaration...
The bill, which had been pending in the lower house of parliament since 2021, was moved by Minister of State for Law and Justice Shahadat Awan in the...
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has warned the general public against falling prey to fraudulent financial schemes...
The SECP on Wednesday said it had been issuing such warnings to raise awareness among the general public regarding typologies of potentially fraudulent activities
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates has withdrawn from a US-led maritime coalition tasked with securing tense Gulf waterways that are vital to the global oil trade, it said on Wednesday...
The UAE “withdrew its participation” in the 38-nation Combined Maritime Forces two months ago, a foreign ministry statement said, without giving reasons for the move