SEOUL: North Korea has been working through 2016 on developing components for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), making the isolated nation’s claim that it was close to a test-launch plausible, international weapons experts said on Monday...
North Korea has been testing rocket engines and heat-shields for an ICBM while developing the technology to guide a missile after re-entry into the atmosphere following a lift-off, the...
The ICBM, carried on a transporter-erector-launcher with no fewer than 11 axles, rolled through Kim Il Sung square as leader Kim Jong Un watched from a rostrum, footage from state broadcaster KCTV showed...
The ICBM was preceded earlier by the Pukguksong-4a, a new submarine-launched missile that would add another dimension to Pyongyang’s arsenal, which it says it needs to deter a US invasion...
Leader Kim Jong Un watched the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) roll through Kim Il Sung square — named after his grandfather — in Pyongyang at the climax of an unprecedented night-time parade on Saturday...
If the ICBM carried three or four warheads, he added on Twitter, the US would need to spend around $1 billion on 12-16 interceptors to defend against each missile...
SEOUL: North Korea fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday, Tokyo and Seoul said as they voiced outrage at Pyongyang’s most powerful launch since 2017...
Nuclear-armed North Korea has long coveted an ICBM that can carry multiple warheads and, the US and South Korea say, has been testing the Hwasong-17, a giant ICBM first unveiled in October 2020...
KARACHI: A noticeable presence of Rangers personnel on the premises of Radio Pakistan just a few years after the bulk of the operations undertaken in the stone-built structure were shifted to Gulshan-i-Iqbal has raised concern about the fate of the historical building...
The Radio Pakistan staff said that the personnel of the paramilitary force, whose headquarters has been housed in the historical building of Jinnah Courts for the...
NEW DELHI: India will accelerate its building of new hydro-power plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday, in a move likely to aggravate already tense relations with its neighbour a week after an attack on an Indian army base...
The dispute looks set to be reignited after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told officials on Monday that India should use more of the rivers' resources,...
7pc returns for three- and five-year instruments, respectively, not attractive enough to nudge the non-resident Pakistanis to partake in building the new future?The economic dream team of the government contested the perception that the initiative fell flat...
The response to the Pakistan Banao Certificate (PBC) is said to be meek and nowhere close to the real potential...
What is encouraging in the case of Pakistan is that Prime Minister Imran Khan was voted to power on the pledge to build a Naya Pakistan...
Earlier, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto tried to erect the edifice of a new Pakistan after the 1971 tragedy...
Ambassador Masood Khan, Islamabad’s ambassador in Washington, has met US President Joe Biden on his visit to the White House where the two discussed building a "strong basis for moving Pakistan-US ties forward"...
According to a press release issued by the Pakistan Embassy in the US, Khan visited the White House for a "meet and greet" and an official photograph with the US president — an established tradition for newly appointed...
Kane Williamson and Ish Sodhi defied Pakistan bowlers on Thursday as New Zealand reached 519-6 at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test in Karachi...
Pakistan took the third new ball with the total on 493-6, but neither the fast bowlers nor the spin duo of Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed could break the partnership, which has so far yielded 78 runs...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the Pakistan Railways (PR) from raising illegal commercial constructions near tracks and auctioning the shops...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has sold the abandoned embassy building in Washington for $7...
The building has been vacant since 2003 and declared a “blighted property” by the local government...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) is spending over Rs80 million on the renovation of a rented building in which the offices of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) will be shifted just for 14 months...
In July 2014, the ministry decided to shift the DRAP offices to the rented building at Sector G-9 for two years during which it was to construct a separate building for DRAP at the National Institute...
Two labourers, Abdul Waheed and Noman Musarrat, were repairing an air conditioner on the third floor of the building when the ladder they were standing on slipped...
ISLAMABAD: Ten years after the devastating 2005 earthquake, it appears government authorities still do not have any building laws and regulations that could be enforced...
This was revealed on Thursday, when representatives from government departments said before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights that the building codes developed by the Ministry of Housing and Works and adopted by the Capital Development Authority (CDA)...