RAWALPINDI: An improvised explosive device (IED) was found near the railway station on Wednesday...
It was lying adjacent to an under-construction building in the vicinity of Mithu Khan Ahata Saddar along Railway Road...
GENEVA: Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it would not oppose a resolution at the UN-backed Human Rights Council seeking an independent, international investigation of rights violations and crimes in war-torn Yemen, but raised questions about the “timing”...
Meanwhile, the Netherlands, which has strived in vain to establish an international probe at past council sessions, was renewing its efforts this time with new support from Canada......
This seemingly eternal ‘shatterbelt’ appears to lurch from crisis to crisis...
What has sparked the stand-off is a referendum held in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sept 25 in which the region’s inhabitants voted to break away from Baghdad...
”Bankers say even if HBL’s appeal fails in court, it might still be able to negotiate with DFS for a phased penalty payment which may keep its reserves from being wiped off...
”But the timing of the DFS move as well as the amount of the potential penalty has surprised many in the local banking community and they smell a rat in it...
His reported timing of 9...
20 seconds (wind-assisted) on cinder-tracks, in fairly contested events,” recalls John Permal, Pakistan’s former national sprint champion from 1964 to 1974, who also clocked a personal best of 10...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court said on Thursday the decision of shutting down shops and business places at 8pm was a policy matter of the government and the court had no jurisdiction to interfere in it...
With this observation, Justice Ijazul Ahsan dismissed a petition filed by All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran central secretary general Naeem Mir, assailing the decision for being discriminatory and unconstitutional
ZURICH: FIFA leader Sepp Blatter on Friday joined figures who have questioned the timing of a police raid to arrest top football figures just two days ahead of a presidential vote by the world body...
“People talk about a coincidence, but I have a small question mark about the timing,” he said...
The petitioner claimed the timing for the capital and Punjab markets was discriminatory as other provinces were exempted from such restriction...
“We are not an implementation authority, nor can we force any cleric to follow timings even if they are from our sect,” said Allama Abdul Aziz Hanif, member of the Nizam-e-Salat Committee of the Ahle Hadis sect...
He said after its failure to implement the National Action Plan on Terrorism, the government started taking superficial measures to distract people from the core issues...
In his concluding speech over the energy crisis on Thursday, Mr Asif, offered his immense gratitude to the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) for breaking story on the alleged cooperation between the Indian RAW and Muttahida Qaumi (MQM) Movement which took away prying eyes of media persons from electricity crisis...
LONDON: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has to go but the timing of his departure should be decided through negotiation...
That is what we’re looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other countries with influence, will help to bring about that, because that’s what is preventing this crisis from ending,” said Kerry...
But in response, Dr Musadik Malik, one of the many spokespersons from the Prime Minister’s Office, said that the PM had neither expressed a desire to meet the PPP leader nor had he scheduled a meeting with him...
Many of the PPP’s detractors argued that last year’s acquittal from much-talked about SGS & Cotecna was made possible due to a weak prosecution of the case by the PML-N government...
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has extended timing for collection of duty and tax on last two days of this month...
"Apart from her selfie with Edhi, Komal was also pictured with his wife...
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: The opposition has questioned the timing of the ousted prime minister’s tirade against state institutions, especially when the country is facing challenges on the international front in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s anti-Pakistan tweet...
He urged Mr Sharif to give up raising his personal matters at this critical juncture taking a clue from the PPP leadership, which never attacked the courts despite the...