Ahsan Iqbal urges business community to explore global markets for exports
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiative Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday called upon the business community to explore the global market for promoting...
In wealthy Dubai, poor get free bread from machines
DUBAI: With the cost of living surging, free hot bread distribution for the poor has been introduced in Dubai, a rich Gulf emirate where...
Dar sworn in as senator, to become finance minister tomorrow
-- Ismail formally steps down, paving way for Dar to take over
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjarani on Tuesday administered the oath as Senator to...
Plea seeking Dar’s disqualification withdrawn
ISLAMABAD: A plea seeking disqualification of Ishaq Dar was withdrawn from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday ahead of the oath-taking of...
Biggest challenge in decades: Sharif calls on nation to help flood victims
KARACHI: Shehbaz Sharif has urged the nation to work in unison by extending a helping hand to the people hit by the most severe...
Court frees Ayaz Amir in daughter-in-law murder
ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Tuesday freed senior journalist Ayaz Amir, who the police arrested and charged with abetting the...
Truckloads of apples start to rot as blocked Kashmir highway halts deliveries
SRINAGAR: Roadworks have halted thousands of trucks carrying millions of dollars worth of apples on occupied Kashmir's main highway, a major union leader said,...
Pakistan committed to peaceful S. Asia goal despite India threat: Akram
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the United Nations it has made several proposals to keep South Asia free of nuclear weapons since India’s maiden nuclear...
NAB tells LHC Maryam Nawaz’s passport ‘not required ‘
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that it does not require passport of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...
Dasti arrested
ISLAMABAD: The police have arrested Jamshed Ahmad Dasti, a former MP and chairman of Awami Raj Party (ARP), from Rawalpindi in a case of...
US pushes for ‘constructive’ Pakistan-India relations
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late on Monday he had discussed with his Pakistani counterpart what he called managing a responsible...
Reforms ordered by Punjab ombudsman increase PHA revenue by 120pc
LAHORE: As a result of the departmental measures taken on the orders of retired Maj. Azam Suleman Khan, ombudsman of Punjab, the revenue of...
Four militants killed in Quetta: police
QUETTA: The counter-terrorism unit of Balochistan police shot dead four members of a proscribed organisation in Quetta on Tuesday, it said.
The encounter occurred in...
Imran secures bail extension over violation of administrative authority
ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad extended until October 13 the interim bail of former prime minister Imran Khan and the leadership...
American mountaineer Hilaree Nelson missing on Manaslu mountain in Nepal
WASHINGTON: Renowned US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has gone missing on Nepal's Manaslu mountain, on the same day that an avalanche killed a Nepali...