“After all efforts failed to convince the government to look into our concerns, we organised a kind of all parties conference belonging to the traders’ community in Lahore on July 5,” All Pakistan Markazi Anjuman-i-Tijaran President Ajmal Baloch said...
Support for the strike call on July 13 has been extended by traders from major cities including Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
ISLAMABAD: A two-day Islamabad Civic Hackathon — an event organised by Code for Pakistan (CfP) and OPEN Islamabad — concluded Sunday with participants working constantly to develop mobile/web applications and digital tools which address civic and social issues...
“It was inspirational … It makes me feel incredibly hopeful for Pakistan...
KARACHI: Four people were reportedly booked on Wednesday for violating copyright and intellectual property laws after allegations of plagiarising source code for a financial information startup surfaced...
The entrepreneurs behind Investor's Lounge, Baqar Abbas Jafri, Sennen D’Souza, Hammad Ali Hashmi and Waqar Ehsan, have been accused by their former employer ? Mir Muhammad Ali Khan of AMZ MAK Capital Ltd ? of stealing firm’s source...
The disease is not that prevalent in the country, but Pakistan is still one of the high risk areas because people do not have awareness about the disease,” he said...
At least nine individuals lost their lives while 29 others were injured when a coach carrying Pakistan Navy personnel and their families from Ormara to Karachi developed a mechanical fault and fell into a deep ditch...
Travelling through the dangerous turns in the Buzi Top area, the coach developed a mechanical fault and fell into a deep ditch...
ISLAMABAD: The Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority (NAPHDA) is looking to develop a part of Blue Area on a public-public partnership model with the Capital Development Authority (CDA)...
Blue Area is acquired commercial area belonging to the CDA, where the NAPHDA now wants to begin a joint venture...
Iran is investigating an incident in which at least two Iranians were shot dead this week at the border with Pakistan, and Islamabad has handed over the body of one of the victims, the Iranian foreign ministry said a week ago...
“The series of violent events and unrest began on February 22, when Revolutionary Guards are alleged to have shot and killed at least 10 fuel couriers, known as sookhtbar, in Sistan and Baluchestan province at...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday rejected the “irresponsible” and “misleading” statement by Indian officials regarding an 'encounter' in Kulgam area of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK)...
The statement by FO spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri comes a day after an Indian police official in occupied Kashmir claimed to have "confirmed Pakistan's involvement" in an attack on an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) convoy...
5bn to be repaid over next three years • Political instability, lack of IMF deal to hit ability to import foodISLAMABAD: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to further exacerbate in coming months if the economic and political crisis further worsens, compounding the effects of the 2022 floods, warns a new United Nations report published on Monday...
It notes that amid the current global economic slowdown, mounting public debt...
After hours toiling at construction sites in 50 degree-plus heat, Lakhmir Brahmani finds little relief from the sun other than a donkey-powered fan during the dog days of summer in one of Pakistan's hottest cities...
“Deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply,”...
Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10...
The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty...
Pakistan ranks high on the list of countries most threatened by the impending effects of climate change...
According to a recent report published by the Asian Development Bank, a 6-degree Celsius temperature increase is projected over the Asian landmass whereby countries like Pakistan could experience a significantly hotter climate...
There's a story in every city, and a city hidden in every perspective...
Be it a concrete jungle in Karachi or a crowded town resting on the foothold of the Karakoram mountains in Skardu, all cityscapes play a role in shaping our human experience
ISLAMABAD: A search and combing operation has begun in the twin cities, in preparation for Pakistan Day on March 23...
Based on instructions from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), internet service providers (ISP) have informed their customers that internet services will be shut down from 5am to 3pm on Monday...
ISLAMABAD: By 2030, the population of Pakistan is expected to swell to 260 million, with half of that number living in urban areas...
This was discussed in a meeting held to discuss the New Urban Agenda in the country for making the country’s cities habitable and to trigger economic prosperity...