LAHORE: Pakistan’s rugby team will play two matches against the UAE in the Asia Rugby Men Division I 2023 in Lahore on July 4 and 8...
Pakistan Rugby Union (PRU) Salman Sheikh secretary on Saturday said the winners would qualify for next year’s Asia Rugby Championship
• Former Punjab CM returns to custody as ACE arrests him in yet another case • Lahore ATC ‘discharges’ ex-health minister, 23 others from Jinnah House attack case • Over 100 PTI men, women still in custody over storming of corps commander houseLAHORE: While an anti-terrorism court discharged PTI’s Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid in the Jinnah House attack case, the authorities seem determined not to set Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at liberty, as...
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
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
PRIME MINISTER Shehbaz Sharif greets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after his inauguration ceremony in Ankara, on Saturday...
—Courtesy Foreign Office ANKARA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday invited Turkish investors and businessmen to expand their investment in various areas of Pakistan
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has sought from the Punjab Excise and Taxation Department details of purchase and sale of vehicles “in the name of” 22 members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s cabinet as part of its investigation in the Al Qadir Trust case...
The Al Qadir Trust case alleges that the ex-premier and his wife, Bushra Bibi, obtained billions of rupees and land worth hundreds of kanals...
Zoo Director Kanwar Ayub says two elephants at Safari Park are healthy...
—White Star/file KARACHI: Despite getting treatment for potentially fatal blood parasites a few weeks ago, zoo elephant Madhubala has again tested positive for the same germs, it emerged on Saturday
VIENNA: Opec and its allies began two days of meetings on Saturday that may culminate in further production cuts of as much as 1 million barrels per day, Opec+ sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut...
Opec+, which groups the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, pumps around 40 per cent of the world’s crude, meaning its policy decisions can have a...
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
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
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
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
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
KARACHI: The provincial government on Saturday decided to build a world-class tourist resort at Keenjhar Lake...
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the steering committee on tourism chaired by Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh
BALASORE: When India’s worst train accident in more than 20 years happened just outside his home, Hiranmay Rath said it felt “like the sky was falling on us or the earth was cracking open”...
What followed was an unimaginable nightmare of corpses, body parts and suffering