Qureshi’s visit to enhance Pak-Egypt multilateral ties, cooperation: Sisi
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al Sisi that Pakistan is keen to reinvigorate traditional bilateral relationship,...
Pak, Thailand agree to enhance cultural cooperation, exchange programme
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the kingdom of Thailand have reaffirmed their resolve to enhance cultural cooperation and museum exchange programme on the occasion of 70th...
PM proposes five-point agenda to end poverty, hunger
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday, describing agriculture as “central to human survival”, proposed a five-point agenda to end poverty and hunger from...
Information hub launched in federal capital
DND Thought Centre, an information hub, has been launched in Islamabad with the purpose of providing a readily accessible database of analytical and critical...
Court decisions hindered Pakistan’s technological progress: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhary Fawad Hussain has said there is a dire need to change syllabus of Media sciences to cope...
PIA in talks to increase cargo trade with Afghanistan
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is in talks with the neighbouring country of Afghanistan to increase air links and trade, as well as to expand...
PTI legislator challenges Rashid’s papers for Senate elections
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday challenged the nomination of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Pervaiz Rashid for Senate.
A petition submitted by PTI MPA...
ECP maintains Senate elections should only be held through secret ballot
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a response submitted to the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday has maintained that the Senate elections should...
Three terrorists killed in N Waziristan IBO
LAHORE: Security agencies on Tuesday killed three terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the North Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a statement issued...
Road accident leaves 7 dead, 9 injured
KHUSHAB: As many as seven people, including a woman, were killed and nine wounded when a passenger wagon collided with a truck at the...
Send Imran packing with power of the vote, says Maryam
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday purported that it was time for the public to send the sitting prime...
Asad urges frontline workers to register for Covid-19 jabs
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has appealed to all frontline healthcare workers to register to receive the vaccine which the government...
Mumbai court stops arrest of associate of 22-year-old climate activist
MUMBAI: A Mumbai court on Wednesday granted bail to an associate of a 22-year-old climate activist whose arrest for promoting an action plan for...
PPP wins Karachi by-poll
KARACHI: Yousuf Murtaza Baloch of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won the by-election held for the Sindh Assembly’s constituency PS-88 (Malir-II) on Wednesday, according...
Imran begins plantation drive in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will make a "green Pakistan" as he launched a tree plantation...