ISLAMABAD: Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed´s father said his son was detained by "state agencies" while visiting Pakistan from Singapore, though he did...
KARACHI: Enraged citizens in Karachi's Landhi area nabbed a robber red handed and then burnt him alive after torturing. According to Sindh police spokesman, two robbers attempted to loot a milk shop in Landhi but a mob surrounded them after hearing the gunfire. They caught one of them and burnt h...
NEW YORK: The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration on Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its resettlement programme was vital. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday put a ...
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan decided to maintain the interest rate at 5.75 percent, it announced on Saturday. Addressing a press conference to announce the monetary policy for the upcoming two months, Governor State Bank of Pakistan Ashraf Mahmood Wathra stated that the interest rate would ...
LOS ANGELES: The Oscar nominations on Tuesday honoured the largest ever crop of actors of colour along with a diverse range of stories, a year after Hollywood was slammed for excluding minority talent. The #OscarsSoWhite controversy last year was sparked when all 20 acting nominees were white for ...
BEIJING: China wants dialogue with the new U.S. administration to manage disputes and promote bilateral relations, but only on the basis of respecting each other's core interests, like the "one China" principle, China's foreign minister said. U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugura...
ISLMABAD: The prime minister on Tuesday has sought immunity from the Supreme Court under the Article 248 of the Constitution in the Panama Leaks case. A five-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, resumed hearing in the petitions filed by the Pakistan Tehre...
KARACHI: Certain parts of Karachi experienced quakes on Tuesday, as people, frightened by the tremors, came out into the safety of the open area. According to details, the quakes were only felt in certain parts of the city such as Gulshan and Gulistan-e-Jauhar. Students of NED University and...
LONDON: The Israeli embassy in London sought to head off a diplomatic storm Sunday, apologising after one of its staff was caught on camera threatening to "take down" a British government minister. The Mail on Sunday newspaper posted the footage showing the embassy employee telling an un...
AS India turns its focus to a clutch of make-or-break state polls starting next month and while the world lives in suspense over the arriving Trump presidency in the United States, the trauma of the people in Jammu and Kashmir festers on. A report from October and December visits to Jammu and Kash...
WARSAW: A cold wave across Europe has left at least 23 dead in the past two days, including several migrants and homeless people, authorities said Saturday, with the frigid temperatures expected to continue through the weekend. Russia meanwhile celebrated the coldest Orthodox Christmas in 120...
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and NarcoticsControl Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday directed the Islamabad Police to speed up its efforts and utilize all resources for the recovery of human rights activist Salman Haider. According to an interior ministry press release, the minister asked the...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday announced to introduce an ordinance which will impose lifetime ban on public servants involved in corruption. He said that government will be passing an ordinance at midnight Jan 7, 2016 that will disbar public office holders and government servant...
ISTANBUL: A heavy snowstorm paralysed life in Istanbul on Saturday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and the Bosphorus closed to shipping...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police shot dead two militants on Friday in a gunfight in Dhaka, including a prime suspect in the killing of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, in a cafe in the capital last year. Nurul Islam Marjan, 30, a commander of a splinter group of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), ...
RAWALPINDI: World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Flyweight Champion Muhammad Waseem met Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa a...
