England committed to Ashes after Root confirms participation: report

MELBOURNE: England have committed to touring Australia for the Ashes after players' concerns over Covid-19 conditions were resolved at a meeting between the countries'...

Taiwan defence minister says tensions with China are the worst in four decades

TAIPEI: Military tensions with China are at their worst in more than 40 years, Taiwan's defence minister said on Wednesday, days after record numbers...

US court to hear state secrets case involving Pakistan inmate from Guantanamo

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about the government’s ability to keep what it says are state secrets from a Pakistan...

ASEAN weighs excluding Myanmar junta boss from summit: envoy

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Southeast Asian countries are discussing not inviting the head of Myanmar's junta to a summit this month, due to the military's...

PM Imran Khan’s stooges should keep their suggestions to themselves: Marriyum

LAHORE: PML-N's spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb slammed Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday for suggesting that the Opposition should start searching...

Government to introduce ordinance for NAB chief tomorrow

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has decided to extend the tenure of the current National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chief. Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal was appointed...

Balochistan CM Jam Kamal given deadline by BAP till 6pm tomorrow to step down from his post

Balochistan Awami Party's (BAP) members and some from its coalition partners in the Balochistan government gave Chief Minister Jam Kamal a deadline of 6pm...

Army huddle takes serious note of Indian army’s ‘malicious propaganda’, resolves to take measures

The Pakistan Army's top brass on Tuesday expressed the resolve to take necessary measures to safeguard Pakistan’s territorial integrity in the face of "malicious...

IHC allows margin to Kulbhushan Jadhav, India assigns legal counsel

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) allowed extra time to the detained Indian spy, Kubhushan Jadhav, to appoint a legal counsel, on Tuesday. The three-judge IHC...

At UN summit, PM Imran calls for return of stolen wealth to developing countries

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for prioritising return of stolen wealth to developing countries, vaccine equity, debt relief and climate finance as...

Ashfaq group agrees to hold talks with normalisation committee

The Ashfaq Hussain Shah group, the occupant of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) headquarters in Lahore, has finally expressed its willingness to talk with...

WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram outage due to faulty configuration change, says company

Facebook Inc blamed a "faulty configuration change" for the nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its...