Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has invited Tajikistan to “avail the facilities of Pakistani seaports” for transit trade, a joint statement issued by the two countries said on Wednesday, as the premier concluded his two-day official visit to…
Pakistan’s privatisation commission is addressing concerns voiced by those qualified to bid for the country’s national airline about a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ban on the carrier, an official said on Wednesday.
Authorities in Russia’s mostly-Muslim North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Wednesday temporarily banned women from wearing the niqab, after simultaneous attacks targeting churches and synagogues killed 22 last month.
The leaders of Russia and China were in Kazakhstan for a regional summit, seeking to harden anti-Western alliances and press their influence in the strategic Central Asian region.
Pakistan is looking to clinch a staff-level agreement (SLA) on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout of more than $6 billion this month after addressing all of the lender’s requirements in its annual budget, state minister for…
Survivors of India’s deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded Hindu religious gathering that left 121 people dead.
My sister got her first period at the tender age of seven and a half. Not prepared for the pain that comes with menstruation, the mental and physical exhaustion took the best of her. A year later, her period mysteriously stopped and never…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to proceed against the persons identified for spreading personal data of Justice Babar Sattar on the social media.
ISLAMABAD: Justice Aalia Neelum is set to make history as the first woman to rise to the position of chief justice of the Lahore High Court, after the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) unanimously approved her elevation, on Tuesday.
KARACHI: Police and doctors on Tuesday said that a six-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother, whose bodies were recovered along with their mother’s from a drain near their home in Mauripur on June 29, were subjected to a sexual…
KARACHI: Police have registered a rioting case against more than 300 citizens who protested against prolonged loadshedding outside K-Electric office in Sharifabad and allegedly ransacked its properties.
LAHORE: The Punjab Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Department on Tuesday told the Lahore High Court that a female doctor had been terminated for performing a two-finger test (virginity test) of a minor rape victim.
ISLAMABAD: Just a day after one of the allies of PML-N-led coalition, ANP, demanded re-elections in the country, senior ANP leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour met President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed with him overall political and security…
RAWALPINDI: A team from the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates begun an aviation security assessment at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Tuesday.
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes on Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled fighters after the army again ordered Palestinians to leave areas near the besieged territory’s border with Israel and Egypt.
IF last week’s debate was not victory enough for former president Donald Trump, he had another windfall land in his lap this Monday. On July 1, 2024, the US supreme court issued its decision, stating that the former president enjoyed…
THE banker-turned-finance minister appeared nonplussed as he responded to the questions on Budget 2024-2025 that has burdened the already weighed-down salaried classes while protecting the privileged. He could only offer words of ‘sympathy…
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for urgent intervention to stop the genocide in Gaza, as a UN agency warned on Tuesday that new Israeli military orders for evacuation from Khan Younis would affect an estimated 250,000 people.
ISLAMABAD: The country is confronting its highest-ever inflation, but the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday that raw food exports increased by 37 per cent in FY24 over the preceding fiscal year.
QUETTA: A security official was martyred and four others sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion near a vehicle carrying security personnel to the Iskalku area of Kalat district on Tuesday, officials said on…
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday dispelled the impression of any forward bloc in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and asserted that a decision regarding the PTI deserters was yet to be taken.
ISLAMABAD: A divided house of the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) on Tuesday announced a countrywide strike for July 5 to protest the imposition of 0.5 per cent advance turnover tax in the budget, although the government…
ISLAMABAD: While land grabbing has remained a major issue in the federal capital, some elements have now become active to encroach on state land by expanding old and abandoned graveyards.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday stressed upon expansion of bilateral trade between Pakistan and Tajikistan, saying the current volume did not reflect the “current level of brotherly relationship” between the two countries.
Nearly 116 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, government officials said, the worst such tragedy in more than a decade.
Pakistan have managed to qualify for the 2026 T20 World Cup despite their dismal showing in the 2024 tournament, according to the International Cricket Council (ICC).