RIYADH: A bus ferrying pilgrims to Makkah burst into flames after a collision on a bridge on Monday, killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others...
The incident in the southern province of Asir highlights persistent challenges to safely transporting worshippers to Makkah and Madina
GEN Qamar Bajwa was rather busy during his six-year tenure and didn’t get much time to air his views...
After all, army chiefs do not give interviews or interact with journalists the way politicians do
• New AGP Mansoor Usman Awan set to appear in court from today • CJP questions political leaders’ efforts towards restoration of peaceISLAMABAD: Asking the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to come prepared to justify its decision to postpone elections to the Punjab Assembly, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Monday observed that the spirit of the Constitution does not envisage the making or breaking of governments,...
TAOYUAN: Taiwan’s ex-President Ma Ying-jeou became on Monday the first sitting or former Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the Communist revolution in 1949, saying he hoped to bring about peace and improve relations...
Ma’s office said he was met at Shanghai’s Pudong airport by officials including Chen Yuanfeng, deputy head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office
TWO instructive approaches are currently underway to rein in or dislodge autocratic governments in high-profile neighbourhoods...
The first method can be glimpsed in the popular movement that has grown into a huge challenge for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bid to put Israel’s judiciary on a political leash, at least partly to evade trial and possible conviction for alleged bribery
LAHORE: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Monday pledged to expose what she called Imran Khan’s facilitators in the judiciary “with full force” and tasked the party spokespersons with doing so...
Presiding over a meeting of PML-N’s spokespersons at the party office in Model Town, the party’s chief organiser asked them to bring forth the facts related to the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case in which her father Nawaz Sharif...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan and China are engaged in a “threshold alliance” but Beijing’s opponents, particularly the US, may prevent it from becoming a fully-fledged alliance, says a recent US report...
The report titled The Future of the China-Pakistan Military Relationship describes the current status of the China-Pakistan relationship as “a threshold alliance,” but argues that it may not lead to a fully-fledged future alliance,...
KARACHI: Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Ltd (KSTML) said on Monday it’s shutting down operations until May 31 owing to political unrest, import restrictions and an “unchecked” increase in the dollar rate...
“These factors have increased inflation, undermined the rupee, driven up cotton prices, driven up the cost of electricity per unit and, most importantly, harmed business confidence,” it said
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Monday approved about Rs72 billion financing facility for payment of the Balochistan government’s obligations in the Reko Diq Project dispute settlement...
The meeting presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, however, deferred proposals for increasing the minimum prices of about 177 medicines because of poor defence by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan...
PARIS: Scientists said on Monday they have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the “explorers of tomorrow”...
The Moon was long believed to be dry, but over the last few decades several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals
• Justice Shah notes judges can’t be removed from bench sans their consent • Cites Panama Papers verdict as precedent, says removal of judges won’t affect outcome • Deplores ‘one-man show’ at apex court, seeks limits to CJP’s ‘unbridled powers’ISLAMABAD: Two judges of the apex court on Monday cast doubt on the judgement handed down in the March 1 suo motu regarding elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, saying that the proceedings stood...
ISLAMABAD: With food inflation hitting up to 42 per cent in urban areas, a large number of consumers have opted for slightly cheap but ‘high quality’ Iranian ‘smuggled’ products, such as oil and cheese, readily available in Rawalpindi and Islamabad...
Several shops in twin cities have dedicated racks for Iranian goods, but the best place to bargain for these items, mainly packaged food, is the weekly bazaar at Peshawar Morr
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Railways and Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique has said that what Imran Khan wants will never happen, as the government will never surrender to his desires...
“Whatever you want, it will not come to pass
KARACHI: The repatriation of dollars by foreign companies plunged 88 per cent during the first 8 months of the current fiscal year reflecting low profits and stringent restrictions on outflows from the country...
Data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday did show that the government policy of curbing dollar outflows severely impacted the foreign direct investment (FDI) which dipped by 40pc during the July-February...
LAHORE: A group of politicians — mostly belonging to south Punjab and led by Jahangir Khan Tareen — on Monday mulled a proposition floated by the powers that be to set up a ‘parallel’ Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to contain ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s party ahead of the next elections...
The Tareen group held a huddle in which disgruntled MNAs and former Punjab MPAs, who were disqualified after voting for the PML-N candidate in the...