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...
Police seek arrest of two on blasphemy charges
LAHORE: Punjab police said Wednesday they were seeking the arrest of two Christian men in Lahore on charges of blasphemy.
The case against the two...
Pakistan renews opposition to new permanent UNSC seats
NEW YORK CITY:Â Pakistan has warned that attempts by the aspirants of permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to railroad efforts to...
South Africa’s Du Plessis retires from Tests to focus on T20 World Cups
CAPE TOWN: Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has announced his retirement from Tests to make T20 International cricket his priority with successive...
Karachi police book PTI leader under anti-terror law
KARACHI: Karachi police have booked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Sindh Assembly Opposition Leader Haleem Adil Sheikh under sections of Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, a...
Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings – unless they talk
TOKYO: After a sexism row sparked by Tokyo Olympics chief’s saying women talked too much at meetings, Japan’s ruling party wants women at key...
Myanmar coup opponents call for big protests to counter military claims
YANGON: Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup called for more big protests on Wednesday to show that the army’s assertion of widespread public support for...
South Africa wants to return 1 million AstraZeneca vaccine shots to India: report
South Africa wants to return the one million Covid-19 vaccine doses it has received from Serum Institute of India, The Economic Times reported on...