Torkham border closed as coronavirus rages out of control in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: The government has closed the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan amid a surge of Covid-19 cases in the war-battered country, Minister for Interior...
Man accused of setting wife alight secures bail
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Tuesday approved the bail request of a man accused of setting his wife on fire in 2014 over a...
US left Bagram airfield without informing new commander: Afghan military
KABUL: The US left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying...
Ameer Bhatti takes oath as LHC chief justice
LAHORE: Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti took oath as the new chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday.
Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar administered the...
Boxer Mary Kom, hockey captain Singh named India’s flagbearers
NEW DELHI: Boxer MC Mary Kom and men's hockey captain Manpreet Singh will be India's flagbearers at the Tokyo Olympics later this month, the...
Dialogue agenda with Baloch nationalists to be set as Indian terror network dismantled: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: The government will set an agenda for dialogue with nationalists groups in Balochistan, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said Tuesday.
Addressing a...
China lauds Imran’s remarks on ruling party
BEIJING: China has appreciated the remarks of Prime Minister Imran Khan wherein he praised the ruling Communist Party of China for finding a "unique...
Five suspected militants killed in raid on Quetta hideout
QUETTA: Security forces shot five militants to death late on Monday during a raid on their hideout near Quetta, a spokesman for a counter-terrorism...
Plane with 28 people on board goes missing in Russia’s far east
MOSCOW: A Russian AN-26 airplane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east, the country's emergencies...
Explainer: OPEC disagreement lays bare growing UAE-Saudi economic rivalry
DUBAI: Rare public disagreement between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia over OPEC policy points to a growing economic rivalry between the two...
Israel sees drop in Pfizer vaccine protection against infections
JERUSALEM: Israel reported on Monday a decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness but said it...
Govt negotiating with social media giants for representative offices in Pakistan
LAHORE: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib has said that the government is negotiating with international social media giants to convince...