SUKKUR: Senior leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former opposition leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has failed in its economic policies and…
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Judicial commission to record Musharraf’s statement in treason case
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ECP reports low turnout in by-polls as expats votes matter in final count
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Pakistan, India should agree upon ‘strategic stability’ framework: President Alvi
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Nawaz thanks nation for support in by-polls
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JIT head Wajid Zia records statement against Nawaz in Flagship corruption reference
National
ECP completes arrangements for 2018 by-elections
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed all necessary arrangements for holding of bye-elections in 36 constituencies on October 14. According to an ECP official, the elections will be held for…
Columns
Jarndyce and Jarndyce vs Decoy Detonator
Time to do the right thing With just a couple of months to go till retirement, the CJP has thrown himself into his mohim to fix the country and bring it onto…
Editorials
The defeat of populism
A too early assertion of the incumbency factor Unrealistic promises made before the elections would haunt the PTI throughout its tenure. When the voters find the government moving into an altogether different…
Business
PR earns Rs12.7b through land lease in 10 years
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Railways has earned about Rs12,770.02 million revenue by leasing out its land for various purposes in the last 10 years. An official in the ministry said that Pakistan Railways leased out and licensed 15,025.44 acres of land...
Foreign
Trump says ‘rogue killers’ may be behind Khashoggi disappearance
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday dispatched US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman over the unexplained disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and…
Featured
Media Watch: This guy? Seriously?
No, not his finest hour. Farrukh Saleem, the newly-appointed government spokesperson for economic issues, had a tough time fielding questions from the ever-sharp, ever-unyielding Shahzaib Khanzada. Seeing the to-and-fro between the two,…
Sports
Pakistani wrestler Inayatullah wins first bronze in Youth Olympics
Wrestler Inayatullah secured Pakistan’s first medal in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Inayatullah, 17, won a bronze medal in the Youth Olympics by defeating US wrestler Carson…
Lahore
PHC fines private lab over fake blood test report
LAHORE: Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) on Monday served a fine of Rs150,000 to a private laboratory for handing out a fake blood test report and not getting registered with the commission. As per…
Karachi
Pakistan Navy’s maritime exercise begins in Arabian Sea
KARACHI: Opening brief of Pakistan Navy’s (PN) Major Maritime Exercise Seaspark-18 was held on Monday which was graced by the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi as the chief…
Islamabad
CDA to weed out employees having fake, dubious degrees
Capital’s civic agency to gather educational credentials of all gazetted, non-gazetted cadre ISLAMABAD: After a lapse of September 20 deadline to gather the educational credentials of all employees hailing from both gazetted and…
Arts / Entertainment
Taazo: A fresh biryani experience
LAHORE: Being a desi, we tend to have strong opinions about food in this country and of all the dishes evoking this view, biryani is definitely one of the closest to our hearts.…