Australia gifts a Miyawaki forest to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Geoffrey Shaw on Wednesday joined the Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul to inaugurate...

PTI moves ECP for Gillani’s disqualification: leader

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday filed a petition in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking disqualification of former prime minister and Pakistan...

PM should resign, says Bilawal after Gillani’s Senate win

ISLAMABAD: Following Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) joint candidate Yousaf Raza Gillani’s election as a senator after defeating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate Abdul Hafeez Shaikh...

PPP CEC asks ECP to investigate Sindh Opp’s strange behaviour

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Central Election Cell (CEC) Incharge Taj Haider has written a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking the...

Rockets hit airbase in Iraq hosting US troops

BAGHDAD: At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi...

PPP seeks action against Imran over development funds, meetings with MPs

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Nayyar Bukhari on Wednesday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, drawing his attention to the...

Thousands demand India’s top judge quit for asking rapist to marry victim

NEW DELHI: India's top judge was facing calls to resign on Wednesday after telling an accused rapist to marry his schoolgirl victim to avoid...

At UN, Pakistan slams India over rights violations in occupied Kashmir

NEW YORK: Decrying the Indian disinformation campaign targeting Islamabad, a Pakistan diplomat on Tuesday drew the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) attention to...

Pakistan among biggest recipients as Covax details rollout of Covid-19 jabs

GENEVA: Pakistan and Indonesia will be among the biggest recipients of free Covid-19 vaccines before June — more than 10 million doses each —...

Hearing in PPP leader’s bail petition adjourned

ISLAMABAD: Hearing in bail petition of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former National Assembly (NA) opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah was again adjourned...

‘Nobody is safe anymore’: Afghans in shock after three female media workers killed

KABUL: Outrage rippled through Afghanistan on Wednesday as funerals were held for three female media workers gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the...

COAS, Qatari commander discuss enhanced defence cooperation

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that Pakistan greatly values its brotherly relations with its time-tested friend Qatar. The...

The unwitting archivist: Shahid Hamid

In the lineup for Lahore Literary Festival 2021, earlier this month, one of the sessions was an interview of the author of Treasured Memories,...

More demonstrations in Myanmar as ASEAN diplomatic effort stalls

YANGON: Protests against a military coup in Myanmar showed no sign of abating with more planned across the country on Wednesday, as Southeast Asian...

Calls to protect minorities a decade after minister slain

WASHINGTON: Political leaders, activists, and religious figures voiced hope for greater tolerance as they mourned slain minister for minorities’ affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, at a...