KARACHI: The Sindh High Court laid emphasis on recovering missing KDA director Jamil Baloch.
PM Nawaz's surgery went successful: Pervaiz Rasheed
LONDON: According to federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's open heart surgery was a successful on...
NEC meeting approves Rs1675 bn development budget
London: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday presided over a meeting of the National Economic Council through a video link from London whe...
PM Nawaz chairs budget meeting from London High Commission
LONDON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday thanked Pakistanis for the wishes and prayers they extended for his early recovery from a ope...
DJ Butt to jazz up PPP rally in Azad Kashmir today
MIRPUR: Guess whose rally DJ Butt is at right now? Not the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf but a Pakistan People’s Party rally where its co-chairm...
NAB decides to extend scope of corruption cases in Sindh
KARACHI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry visited NAB-Karachi and presided over an important meeting i...
President Mamnoon telephones PM Nawaz to inquire about his health
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain telephoned Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in order to inquire about his health.
Meeting with COAS neither secret nor unusual: Interior Ministry
ISLAMABAD: Spokesperson for the Interior Ministry denied on Sunday that a meeting held recently between army chief General Raheel Sharif, C...
Unnamed US officials booked for drone strike in Pakistan
QUETTA: Pakistani officials on Sunday registered a case against unnamed US officials for the drone attack that killed fugitive Taliban lead...
Turkey's new prime minister wins vote of confidence in parliament
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's government on Sunday won a vote of confidence in parliament as well as approval for hi...
Larkana Bar surprises Chief Justice with present – ‘a goat and a horse’
LARKANA: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali received an unusual gift on Saturday—a horse and a goat which he eventually refused to accept,
PM Nawaz overseeing state affairs from London: PM House
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister House Saturday said PM Nawaz Sharif is overseeing day to day affairs of the state from London as he is duly assis...
PEMRA bans airing birth control, family planning commercials
KARACHI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has directed Television and FM Radio channels to stop airing advertisements...
Pakistani manufacturers showcase their auto parts in US
CHICAGO: Pakistan’s auto parts manufacturing industry offers a cost-effective option to automobile manufacturers around the world, Consul G...
Govt rejects opposition’s ToRs on Panama Leaks, meeting ends in deadlock
ISLAMABAD: The government has rejected all the fifteen ToRs presented by joint opposition in the parliamentary committee’s meeting on Frida...
PM Nawaz name not removed from ToRs, opposition claims
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf spokesperson Naeem ul Haq said that the joint opposition had not agreed to remove the prime ministe...
Sharapova is included in Russian Olympic team
MOSCOW: Maria Sharapova is one of four Russian players named to compete in women's singles at the Olympics in Rio, even though she has ...
Trump secures delegates needed to clinch Republican presidential nomination
WASHINGTON: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party´s presidenti...
Army Chief says Pakistan determined to confront global terrorism, extremism
QUETTA: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Thursday said that Pakistan determined to confront the global phenomenon of terrorism ...
Govt, opposition agree on 4-point preamble on Panama Leeks’ ToRs
ISLAMABAD: The 12-member parliamentary committee comprising members of the government and opposition have agreed on a 4-point preamble to f...
Iran-Saudi row threatens any OPEC deal, puts role in question
LONDON/DUBAI: OPEC's thorniest dilemma of the past year - at least from a purely oil standpoint - is about to disappear.
CM Balochistan says damaging Balochistan peace is to foil CPEC
QUETTA: Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has said that our enemies were involved in hatching conspiracies and committing anti peace act...
Van Gaal sacked by United, Mourinho poised to step in
Manchester United sacked manager Louis van Gaal on Monday after an FA Cup triumph failed to make up for the club's inability to qualify...
Nawab of Bahawalpur remembered on his death anniversary
ISLAMABAD: The fiftieth death anniversary of Nawab of former State of Bahawalpur Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi the Fifth was observed on T...
PPP blames PTI for horse trading in Kashmir Council elections
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Saeed Ghani has said that Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) claims that it was against horse trading...
Pakistan’s Textile exports decline 7.7% in 10 months
ISLAMABAD: The textile exports from the country witnessed negative growth of 7.72 percent during the first ten months of the current fiscal...
Indian cricket board elects Anurag Thakur as president
MUMBAI: Politician Anurag Thakur was elected as president of the Indian cricket board (BCCI) on Sunday, taking charge of the world's ri...
Taliban confirm Mullah Mansoor killed in US drone stike
KABUL: Afghan Taliban says the militant group's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a U.S. drone strike,
Even a minister can be sacked if drunk on the job
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania's president has sacked his home affairs minister after he turned up to parliament and answered questions while ...
Australian PM´s popularity slips in poll as tight election looms
MELBOURNE: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull´s popularity has fallen, just over a month before what is expected to a closely fough...
Russian athletes likely to have tested positive for doping at Beijing Olympics: agency
Some Russian athletes are likely to have tested positive for doping in the 2008 Olympic Games after their samples were re-examined, the Int...
Paris attack suspect refuses to speak at first French court hearing
PARIS: The man prosecutors believe is the sole survivor of the Islamist group that attacked Paris in November appeared in a French court fo...
Pope condemns "bloodsuckers" who exploit poor workers
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis condemned "bloodsuckers" who grow rich by exploiting others on Thursday, saying making "slaves&qu...
Chinese, Germans the most welcoming of refugees, Russians the least: survey
LONDON: China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens' attitudes published on Th...
Sonu Nigam performs on the street under a beggar's guise
JUHU: Who would have thought Bollywood's finest singer Sonu Nigam would perform on the streets of Juhu for the common man and that too,...
Quadrilateral talks on Afghan peace begin amid dim hopes, blame
ISLAMABAD: A fifth round of four-nation talks aimed at laying the ground for a negotiated end to the Afghan war began in Islamabad on Wedne...
Shahbaz Taseer credits faith, family, soccer for kidnap survival
ISLAMABAD: The son of an assassinated Pakistani governor who was released more than four years after his kidnapping by Islamist militants s...
Pak-China Friendship Day to be celebrated on Thursday: Shahbaz
ISLAMABAD: Sixty-five years of Pak-China friendship will be celebrated in a befitting manner across Punjab on Thursday.
MQM decides not to support joint opposition over Panama Papers
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement has decided not support joint opposition over the issue of Panama Papers, sources said Tuesday.
Two bombs in Baghdad kill 13
BAGHDAD: Two bombs went off in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 40, police and medical sources said.
Opposition walks out after Khurshid rejects PM’s clarification
ISLAMABAD: Prime minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif briefed about his and his family’s business history in the session of the Parliament but o...
NA takes up regular agenda besides PM’s address
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly took up its regular agenda while the Prime Minister made a statement on his family´s offshore businesses o...
Nayyar Bukhari, son granted bail
ISLAMABAD: Court of Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad has granted bail to former chairman Senate Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and his son in pu...
Sheikh Rasheed asks PM to step down for sake of democracy
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rasheed has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down if he wanted to safeguard the de...
ICC opens talks with broadcasters to hold two extra World T20s
DUBAI: The ICC has opened discussions with broadcasters about organising World Twenty20 tournaments in 2018 and 2022, thus the event will b...
Imran made Panama Papers a political issue: Abdul Qayyum
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) senator Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qayyum Saturday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imr...
Islamic State storm Deir al-Zor hospital after dawn offensive: Amaq
BEIRUT: Islamic State attacked a hospital in Deir al-Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city ...
Tri cricket series in Caribbean to make floodlight history
BRIDGETOWN: The upcoming tri series between the West Indies, South Africa and Australia will be the first series in history to see all matc...
190 Pakistanis deported from Greece to Turkey - Pak Embassy
ISLAMABAD: Two batches consisting 190 Pakistanis had been deported from Greece to Turkey said Pakistan Embassy in Ankara Turkey.