Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president on Thursday, a day after winning a vote in parliament and urging the island nation to come together to find a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades...
The six-time prime minister succeeded Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled Sri Lanka and resigned from his post last week after mass protests over his handling of the economy...
Politicians, journalists and citizens across Pakistan expressed support and offered prayers for people in India where the second wave of the pandemic has taken a heavy a toll on the public as the country’s health infrastructure struggles to cope up...
On Saturday, #PakistanstandswithIndia and #Indianeedoxygen remained the top trends on Twitter for the second day as a record number of infections and deaths due to the novel coronavirus...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama notified Congress on Tuesday that he has proposed removing Cuba from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism...
“Today the president submitted to Congress the statutorily required report and certifications indicating the administration’s intent to rescind Cuba’s ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ designation,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said...
Afghanistan's president asked the United Nations on Monday to add the Taliban's new leader to its sanctions list, in a further blow to efforts to revive the stalled peace process...
Afghan forces have struggled to contain the Taliban insurgency, with two deadly suicide bombings claimed by the group at the NATO air base in Bagram and at a German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif in just the past week...
LAHORE: Pakistan is the seventh worst country in terms of access to basic sanitation, as its 42 per cent of the population remains without access to basic sanitation...
The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), supported by Saaf Sehatmand Pakistan Campaign marked the World Toilet Day in Lahore, where they called attention to these issues...
Pakistan were ripped apart by hosts Australia in their first match of the International Festival of Hockey at Melbourne's State Netball and Hockey Centre...
The 1-9 defeat is Pakistan's worst-ever in its hockey history...
MELBOURNE: World champions Australia here on Wednesday gave a completely spineless Pakistan a perfect hockey lesson...
On one hand, the humiliating 1-9 drubbing in the International Festival of Hockey match at the State Netball Hockey Centre showed Aussies’ prowess, on the other, the drastically lop-sided scene fully exposed Pakistan’s frailties, rather sheer helplessness, on the Astro Turf...
Pakistan is the fourth worst country for women according to recently released rankings of the Women, Peace and Security Index...
Of the 153 countries ranked for women's inclusion, justice and security, Pakistan was ranked at number 150, with the highest discrimination against women in the world and the lowest financial inclusion...
ISLAMABAD: A report released around the world on Thursday has ranked Pakistan as the 24th worst country for children to experience childhood...
The report, produced by Save the Children and titled Silent Childhood, ranked India at 116, Bangladesh at 134, Sri Lanka at 61, Afghanistan at 152, Iran at 80, China at 41, Sudan at 144 and Yemen at 140 out of 172 countries...
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhry Sarwar says the PML-N government has failed to control rape and kidnap cases, claiming that Pakistan is among the 10 worst countries when it comes to rape cases...
He issued a “fact sheet” on Monday on the rape and kidnap incidents, stating 14,850 kidnap cases involving women, children and girls were reported in Punjab during the last one year...
PARIS: Pakistan had the highest rate of stillbirths in 2015 making it the worst performer out of 186 countries, a quintet of studies published by The Lancet on Tuesday reveals...
The medical journal says Pakistan has 43...
Pakistan has been included in the list of countries with lowest score for “Freedom on the Net”...
The only countries that ranked below Pakistan included China, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Cuba, Uzbekistan and Bahrain...
Pakistan is among the 10 countries where most urban dwellers lack access to safe and private toilets, WaterAid, a sanitation charity, revealed in its report on Thursday...
Other countries among the 10 with poorest access to sanitation facilities include India, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil and Ethiopia...
The Pakistan contingent came back with one of its worst performances at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia...
Amid 45 countries, Pakistan remained 33rd, one position behind even to tiny state of Nepal...
Acting Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed on Thursday lamented that Karachi has become the "worst city" in Pakistan...
He made these comments while hearing a suo motu case at the Supreme Court pertaining to the death of 10-year-old Amal Umer...