Fixing the Agro-Economy of Pakistan

Agriculture is an art of nurturing harvest and hoisting livestock. Its paramount economic role in undersized or budding countries has vital significance. In Pakistan...

Handling a hot potato

An earlier report suggested that the Afghan Taliban were persuading TTP leaders to settle their problems with Pakistan, get amnesty and return to the...

Improving Pak-India diplomatic relations

After close to two and a half years, Pakistan and India have made efforts to normalize diplomatic ties by reportedly granting each other a...

Suspects in custody in TikToker assault case now total 126

After the arrest of 34 more people in connection with the TikToker assault incident on Independence Day, the total number of suspects has now...

Uncertainty, distress for Afghan cricketers after Taliban takeover

KABUL: The crack of bat on ball echoes around Kabul's international stadium as Afghanistan's top cricketers prepare for their next tour -- just days after...

PWD fails to implement multisectoral population welfare programme

LAHORE: Due to the poor planning of Punjab government, the Punjab Population Welfare Department (PWD) has failed to implement the Multisectoral Population Welfare Programmme...

Taliban say they have retaken three northern districts seized by Afghan militias

Taliban forces have recaptured three districts in northern Afghanistan that fell to local militia groups last week, a spokesperson said on Monday. The districts of...

Afghan refugees settled in Pakistan hope for peace, stability of motherland

ISLAMABAD: Naimat Khan, 24, a university student in Rawalpindi, is resettled in Pakistan as a registered refugee from Afghanistan with his family. Over the years...

Maryam’s son walks down the aisle in London

LONDON: Junaid Safdar, the son of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz and former MP Safdar Awan, tied the knot in an intimate...

Taliban reassure it won’t allow TTP to use Afghanistan against Pakistan: minister

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have reassured Islamabad it won't allow the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan group to operate on Afghanistan's soil against Pakistan, Minister for Interior...

Analysis: China, Pakistan, India jockey for position in Afghanistan’s new Great Game

The Russian and British empires battled over Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the United States and the Soviet Union in the 20th. As...

Schools with 100pc vaccinated staff can open from Aug 30: Sindh education minister

KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah announced on Monday that schools that had vaccinated 100 per cent of their staff against Covid-19...

PMDA will be authorised to fine TV channels up to Rs250m: Fawad

Pakistan Media Development Authority will be authorised to fine TV channels with penalties of up to Rs250 million, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting...

For Afghan refugees in India, hopes dim for returning home

NEW DELHI: Her memory of the assassination attempt is hazy. What she does know is that her father asked the Taliban to do it. A...

LHC suspends tax notice to Sharif family’s sugar business

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday suspended an income tax notice of about Rs2.33 billion sent by the Federal Board of Revenue to...