Rajapaksa-led Lankan delegation calls on interior minister Minister for Interior Affairs Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said that stronger Pakistan-Sri Lankan partnership was key to promoting greater cooperation in the region…
National
Columns
Kurd independence referendum
Barzani’s move fraught with danger The rapidity and haste with which changes are taking place in the Middle East are unprecedented since the World War II and each despot, for being confronted…
Editorials
The Supreme Court and the JIT
The consequences of taking up a highly politicised case When the three member Supreme Court bench constituted the JIT, the opposition questioned if a handful of government officials could conduct the…
Business
APTMA to organize textile convention during next month
ISLAMABAD All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) will organize a textile convention along with all textiles associations of the country in second week of July. In textile convention APTMA, including all textile industries, will hold consultation and consensus for future...
Foreign
Iran sends 1,100 tonnes of food to Qatar daily: report
TEHRAN: Iran is shipping more than 1,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetables to Qatar every day after Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia cut relations with Doha, Fars news agency reported Thursday.…
Trump says US has ‘great relationship with China’ after confusing tweet
20 die, 50 hurt in car bombing outside bank in Afghanistan
IS blows up mosque in Mosul where it declared ‘caliphate’
China deploys first nuclear emergency response robots
Michigan airport stabbing probably ‘act of terrorism’: FBI
Featured
Dilemma of a law abiding Prime Minister
You lose some, you lose some more  It’s regrettable and bizarre that rather than addressing that why Prime Minister and his family have been accused of serious corruption crimes, the…
Sports
Afghanistan, Ireland join ranks of test-playing nations
LONDON: Afghanistan and Ireland will join the ranks of full test-playing nations after receiving the backing of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) conference on Thursday. The body said it had voted to…
City
Abrupt cancellation of cinema shows irk moviegoers
LAHORE: The Cinestar IMAX Theatre in Township, Lahore, has abruptly changed its schedule causing inconvenience to several moviegoers who had planned their evening to watch the scheduled feature films, Pakistan Today has…
Islamabad’s mayor journey from ‘nowhere to nowhere’
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sheikh Anser Aziz was chosen as Islamabad’s mayor back in 2015 when the party gained a majority in the city’s local bodies elections. Aziz was a…
HESCO sets up rain emergency centre
HYDERABAD: The management of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) has set up a rain emergency centre during Monsoon 2017. The HESCO spokesman informed here on Thursday that besides addressing the issues of…
Abrupt cancellation of cinema shows irk moviegoers
LAHORE: The Cinestar IMAX Theatre in Township, Lahore, has abruptly changed its schedule causing inconvenience to several moviegoers who had planned their evening to watch the scheduled feature films, Pakistan Today has…
Arts / Entertainment
Russell Crowe to lead new Asian film jury in Australia
Hollywood star Russell Crowe will chair a jury to decide the best Asian production at Australia’s annual film awards this year, which will recognise excellence in Asian movie-making for the first time.…