24 in price of petrol, however, the price will only be increased by Rs2," said Dar while addressing a news conference in Islamabad...
"Prices of petroleum products were not increased in the last seven months and federal government has again decided not increase the prices of kerosene oil and light diesel," he said...
LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
KANDAHAR: A Taliban attack on a district government headquarters in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province on Monday killed at least seven people, an Afghan official said...
Among those killed in the pre-dawn attack in Khas Uruzgan district were five policemen, a former district chief and a school principal, according to Abdul Kareem Karimi, the district chief administrative official...
All five attackers and two bystanders — a Canadian and an Indonesian — died in the midmorning explosions and gunfire that were watched by office workers from high-rise buildings on Thamrin Street in Jakarta, not far from the presidential palace and the US Embassy, police said...
Police then combed the building housing the Starbucks cafe and a nearby building where they discovered six homemade bombs — five small ones and a big one... ...
LAHORE: An armed clash between rival groups on Saturday over a piece of land claimed lives of five residents of Dial village near Batapur, leaving six others injured...
As a result, four men -- Amjad (40), Imran (35), Ijaz (30) and Zafar (35) -- were killed on the spot, while seven others were injured...
BAHAWALNAGAR: Madrassa police on Saturday finally booked seven people for gang rape of a minor orphan girl, five months after the incident, while during the period she was repeatedly assaulted by the suspects who blackmailed her and threatened to kill her younger brother...
Finally, the district police officer took notice of the incident and on his orders Madrassa police registered an FIR against all the seven suspects under section...
KARACHI: Ferozsons Laboratories Limited has obtained the manufacturing licence, along with the requisite production process technology from Gilead Sciences Inc, to manufacture an authorised generic version of ‘Sovaldi’ in Pakistan...
The medicine used in the treatment of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) will be produced under the brand name of Savera (Sofosbuvir 400mg) tablets, which will be available at a retail market price of Rs5,868 per 28...
LAHORE: After a series of pulsating matches, Fantastic Five outwitted their rivals to win the Lahore leg of the Red Bull Neymar Jr’s Five qualifiers on Sunday...
The Lahore leg produced two days full of gripping games, Mighty Five and Fantastic Five made their way through to the final...
BEIJING: A Pakistani businessman, along with three other foreigners, was issued the first working visa valid for five years by the administration of the China’s Yiwu city in Zhejiang province...
Talking to APP, Mohammad Arif said that he and his family were settled in Yiwu and imported various goods from Pakistan...
DHAKA: Pakistan’s miserable tour of Bangladesh continued as the hosts recorded their first-ever Twenty20 win over the rivals with a seven-wicket romp in Dhaka on Friday...
Debutant seamer Mustafizur Rahman took two for 20 in four overs as Pakistan, electing to bat after winning the toss, were restricted to 141 for five at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium...
SARGODHA/FAISALABAD/LAHORE/TOBA TEK SINGH/GUJRANWALA/SAHIWAL: Seven death row convicts were sent to the gallows in jails across Pakistan in the early hours of Tuesday...
His mercy appeals to higher courts and the President of Pakistan were rejected...
The Pakistan Navy has received the seven surplus Westland Sea King multi-role helicopters it had ordered from the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported Wednesday...
The magazine, which reports on intelligence on global military and commercial defence activity, quoting the High Commission of Pakistan in London, said the platforms for the helicopters were officially handed over in a ceremony in London on May...
For seven long years after the inception of their country, the people of Pakistan could not sing their national anthem...
The political leadership was faced with two major dilemmas:Perhaps, in the case of the national anthem, too, language was a contentious issue; people in East Pakistan spoke Bengali, while those in West Pakistan spoke four different languages, which included Sindhi, Balouchi, Punjabi, and Pashto...
GALLE: Yasir Shah claimed seven second innings wickets in a spectacular display of leg-spin bowling to destroy Sri Lanka as Pakistan crushed the hosts by 10 wickets in the first Test to go 1-0 up in the three-match series at Galle on Sunday...
Yasir, who had claimed two wickets in the first innings, took a career-best 7-76 in the second before Pakistan chased down the 90-run victory target in a little over 11 overs to register their...