ON his first foreign foray, President Donald Trump, apart from asking the 50-odd Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to act against “Islamist terrorism”, proposed a new alliance between the US, Arab-Muslim states and Israel to oppose Iran’s hegemonic expansion and support for ‘terrorism’, while simultaneously promising a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians...
In his Riyadh speech, Trump called this a struggle between “good...
DRAWING a broad picture and bringing local narratives into context, Andrew Small has provided a lucid account of how the rather unequal friendship between Pakistan and China has developed over the last decades in his book, The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics...
In a broader perspective in The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics Small has brought together a large number of sources and conducted interviews with many...
PESHAWAR: Fata reforms, an idea with many takers in the political and bureaucratic circles, have brought in its wake a moneymaking opportunity for retired bureaucrats and the people associated with donor agencies or private consultancy firms...
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency on Monday arrested a visa consultancy owner in Defence on charges of human smuggling...
According to a spokesman, Pervaiz Kausar, owner of P&A consultancy firm in H Block, Defence, was wanted in two cases registered against him by FIA...
LAHORE: The Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company’s (PIEDMC) chairman on Friday approved the appointment of a Chinese firm as foreign consultant for technical evaluation of the Quaid-i-Azam Apparel Park (QAAP)...
Presiding over a meeting of the company’s board of directors, S
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has decided to take legal action after it learnt that the name and identity, used for filing a fake complaint to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and a frivolous writ petition before the Lahore High Court against the award of consultancy contract for Mohmand Dam Project, turned out to be of a cook, Mehboob Elahi, residing in a remote area of Choti Zerin in Dera Ghazi Khan...
In Hyderabad, the Jogi, a Gujrati-speaking Hindu minority artisan community survives in miserable socio-economic conditions in a small, ghetto-like slum settlement near the central city area...
HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid Rais, located in neighbouring Gulshan-i-Rais, a couple of days back...
A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison...
This is the first execution to take place in Hyderabad since 2015, when two death-row prisoners convicted for the 1998 hijacking of a PIA Fokker were executed in Karachi and Hyderabad jails...
HYDERABAD: A rally against drugs was taken out by a number of students of public and private schools and colleges along with scores of police officials on Thursday...
According to a Hyderabad police spokesperson, district police launched the anti-drug campaign from Nov 17 to 23 in collaboration with the Crime and Human Rights Cell set up at Hyderabad SSP office...
HYDERABAD: A three-day festival titled ‘Sindh Sufi melo’ was inaugurated by by Sindh Senior Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in Hyderabad Club on Sunday...
Senator Aajiz Dhamra, Auqaf Minister Ghulam Shah Jillani, PPP Hyderabad district president Saghir Qureshi and information secretary Ahsan Abro were among the prominent figures who were present...
A sector in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Dr Naushad, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Hyderabad on Wednesday, DawnNews reported...
Residents of the area called police after spotting his body, which was subsequently shifted to Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad...
HYDERABAD: Education is an inevitably significant source of development whereas art plays a role in character-building of the youth of the country...
It was organised by the Institute of Art and Design (IAD), University of Sindh (SU), Jamshoro, in collaboration with Pakistan Army 18 Division, Hyderabad, on the institute’s premises...
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit bench comprising Justices Mohammad Ali Mazhar and Shoukat Ali Memon on Tuesday directed the additional advocate-general (AAG) to ensure presence of the Hyderabad central jail superintendent in court at 1pm on May 13...
However, the bench asked him “to ensure that the jail chief attends the court in Hyderabad also on the next date of hearing”, observing that the matter was adjourned...
HYDERABAD: Mohammad Ibtesam and Bilal Khan made major contributions as Hyderabad completed their second win in the PCB Regional Inter-district (Hyderabad region) Under-19 Cricket Championships when they outclassed Sanghar by innings and 38 runs at the Niaz Stadium on Sunday...
Hyderabad then declared their first innings at 318-8 in 59 overs with Bilal going on to hit an undefeated 102, a knock featuring 13 fours and three sixes... ...